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Originally Posted by Nova08
If they want a legit program, they need a stadium. Every coach that has come and gone as had some issue with wanting a stadium. As demonstrated, coaches won't stay if they don't have a stadium. They will leave at the first call from a Big 10, Big 12, ACC, or whoever.
I really like this design. Digging below grade is a great way to minimize the enormity of it.
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The AAC (the conference Temple's in) has a problem as a whole with retaining coaches. In the last two years alone, Temple, USF, UCF, Memphis, Houston, and I want to say even SMU* have had to hire new coaches because schools like Baylor and Texas and Virginia Tech and Nebraska keep poaching our conference's coaching talent. So playing at the Linc doesn't really matter from a coaching-retention standpoint; it's the fact that the AAC overperforms its station, as it were, that does.
The main problems that Temple has viz. the Linc are twofold: hostile business relations with the stadium's co-tenant, the Eagles, and the fact that the Linc is just too damn
big for Temple's needs, which in turn makes it a less impressive game-day environment than peer schools' offerings, like TDECU Field (Houston) or Spectrum Stadium (UCF) or even the granddaddy of AAC stadiums, Cincinnati's Nippert Field. These same issues are also driving other stadium redevelopments around the country, like Georgia State's
repurposing of Turner Field into a football stadium (they used to be co-tenants in the Georgia Dome with the Falcons),
SDSU's plans for Qualcomm Stadium (which the Chargers conveniently vacated last year), and USF's rumored plan to leave the Buccaneers' Raymond James Stadium
in favor of an on-campus site as well.
*That's half of the conference. Three other schools (Cincinnati, UConn, ECU) fired their coaches for underperformance in the same timeframe, leaving just three AAC schools (Navy, Tulsa, Tulane) with the same coach today that they had in 2015.