I hate public funds for athletic facilities (I hate eminent domain for private projects as I expressed elsewhere). The old stadium built in 96 for the Olympics was perfectly fine and actually in town. Cobb County will be paying far more than they ever realize for the privilege of having it closer to Woodstock than the state Capitol in downtown Atl.PizzaSnake wrote: ↑Wed May 11, 2022 4:58 pm“those carpetbagging suburban money stealers”Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Tue Jan 25, 2022 6:51 pmIn the distressed debt world they call that a “hope note”…HooDat wrote: ↑Tue Jan 25, 2022 5:54 pminteresting point. Not sure how big this "payable" is, but the one way I could see it being solved is some kind of tax or "seller note" that let's the "haves" buy their way out by helping the state out of that hole.Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Tue Jan 25, 2022 1:20 pm funded in part or whole by the taxpayer complicates then leaving any other FBS state schools in that state behind
It’s sort of front and center here because Ga State has invested huge in football here in Atlanta, even bought the old Braves stadium when those carpetbagging suburban money stealers moved the team to the new ballpark in the suburbs.
But imagine UCF getting left behind being one of the largest state schools in the country if UF/FSU left them behind…
https://www.espn.com/college-football/s ... ke-alabama
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia ... s_football
*side note: the dude who funded the first $10mm for Ga St, Parker petit is much more of a criminal than Uncle Luther ever was…
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ajc.co ... utType=amp
As for carpetbagging…I feel like I get immunity because I brought one of their daughters back.