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Post by AZTEC4LIFE1992 on Feb 9, 2016 9:27:23 GMT -8
The Chargers have hired Fred Maas as the point person for their citizen's initiative. Mr. Maas has previously advised the city that building a stadium downtown would take too long, be too expensive and the only viable option is the present Qualcomm site. What would this mean for the prospects of any SDSU expansion?
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Post by Fishn'Aztec on Feb 9, 2016 10:17:53 GMT -8
No Maas!!
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Post by aardvark on Feb 9, 2016 11:54:41 GMT -8
The Chargers have hired Fred Maas as the point person for their citizen's initiative. Mr. Maas has previously advised the city that building a stadium downtown would take too long, be too expensive and the only viable option is the present Qualcomm site. What would this mean for the prospects of any SDSU expansion? Maas has previously advised the city that building a stadium downtown would take too long, be too expensive, and the only viable option is the Qualcomm site. So of course, the Chargers--with their preference being a stadium downtown--hire a guy that has said due to time, money and location, downtown won't work. The Charger hire of Maas makes perfect sense. In the eyes of Dean Spanos. |
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Post by Luchador El Guerrero Azteca on Feb 9, 2016 12:45:21 GMT -8
Does this mean Fabiani is hopefully out?
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Post by aztecbolt on Feb 9, 2016 13:52:08 GMT -8
Fabiani is still working on this but he's been muzzled. Maas is going to be the guy you see instead of Fabiani.
A downtown stadium would be incredible and the ideal solution but just has too many obstacles IMO with the biggest being the contiguous convention center problem. I think the location will be MV but we'll see what Spanos decides.
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Post by cmonaztecs on Feb 9, 2016 21:49:16 GMT -8
I think the location will be MV but we'll see what Spanos decides. Wouldn't that be the ultimate hypocrisy after ending negotiations last year because we didn't give him a downtown stadium. |
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Post by rickdoerr on Feb 9, 2016 22:24:14 GMT -8
If it is MV what does that mean for SDSU? Get to rent the stadium again? Effectively kills the west campus concept?
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Post by aztecbolt on Feb 9, 2016 22:35:02 GMT -8
Why can't they do both? A shared stadium and the West Campus covering the rest of the land?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2016 23:01:09 GMT -8
I still see charger gear discounted everywhere.
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Post by aztecfred on Feb 10, 2016 8:58:25 GMT -8
I still see charger gear discounted everywhere. Wonder if anyone has some old(new) LA Charger gear? |
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Post by SDSU-Alum2003 on Feb 10, 2016 9:15:04 GMT -8
Why can't they do both? A shared stadium and the West Campus covering the rest of the land? They can. However, it will still be an NFL shared stadium as it is now which is not what SDSU wants or needs. Many of the same principles apply as to why the Chargers don't want to share with the Rams. But at least the Inglewood stadium is designed for NFL teams. SDSU just doesn't need an NFL stadium; it isn't designed to meet their needs - no NFL stadium will. Also, the grand vision of an SDSU West Campus would be destroyed. The NFL stadium has a much larger footprint and private developers will claim a large majority of project with commercial interests in mind. San Diego State University will be an afterthought. |
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Post by laaztec on Feb 10, 2016 9:37:18 GMT -8
Chargers want downtown. That's why they brought in this guy. They will get a downtown stadium on the ballot and the voters will vote it down.
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Post by SDSU-Alum2003 on Feb 10, 2016 9:42:16 GMT -8
Chargers want downtown. That's why they brought in this guy. They will get a downtown stadium on the ballot and the voters will vote it down. I'm not so sure. I hope you are right. We should find out the location within the next couple of weeks. |
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Post by Old School on Feb 10, 2016 9:42:33 GMT -8
You gotta pay to play. You have to spend money to make money. And winning solves everything. Wait....this is the Chargers.  Oldie Out |
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Post by aardvark on Feb 10, 2016 9:43:10 GMT -8
Chargers want downtown. That's why they brought in this guy. They will get a downtown stadium on the ballot and the voters will vote it down. Which makes no sense, if Maas did indeed say that the only viable option is the Qualcomm site. |
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Post by rickdoerr on Feb 10, 2016 9:49:32 GMT -8
Why is it I'm getting confident the Chargers/City are going to screw things up for SDSU?!
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Post by laaztec on Feb 10, 2016 15:22:10 GMT -8
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Post by aardvark on Feb 10, 2016 16:16:36 GMT -8
The original post for this thread said that. If that original statement was wrong, then so am I. |
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Post by SDSU-Alum2003 on Feb 10, 2016 16:39:02 GMT -8
The original post for this thread said that. If that original statement was wrong, then so am I. It is no secret the Chargers prefer downtown but until they officially announce that is indeed their focus I am skeptical. There are several political forces that don't want a stadium downtown. For the grand vision of SDSU West campus to become a reality the Charger stadium must be downtown. Regardless, any stadium decision will have to pass a vote with the electorate. |
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Post by aztecbolt on Feb 10, 2016 21:28:29 GMT -8
He told CSAG that last year that MV was the only real choice. However, he backtracked a bit of that statement yesterday. Unless there's something big we don't know, I think the location has to be MV because there's no way the city is going to back a non-contiguous convention center expansion. |
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