Next step for practice facility
September 19th, 2007, 11:22 pm · Post a Comment · posted by Dan Zeiger
ASU’s planned indoor practice facility is similar to one at the University of Texas.
Arizona State University athletics has four items on the agenda at the Arizona Board of Regents meeting on Sept. 27-28 in Flagstaff.
At the forefront is ASU’s request for approval of construction of an indoor football practice facility, one of seven new university projects scheduled for the first year of a capital improvement plan for fiscal years 2009-11.
Plans call for the $6-million, 96,750-square foot facility, expected to be funded primarily through donor gifts, to have an inflatable “bubble” roof similar to a structure used by the University of Texas. It would be located adjacent to the Sun Devils’ current practice fields at Rural Road and Sixth Street, stand 65 feet tall and house a 120-yard artificial turf field.
The school has submitted for approval contract extensions for three coaches: Herb Sendek of men’s basketball, Greg Kraft of men’s and women’s track and Louie Quintana of men’s and women’s cross country.
ASU wants to award Sendek another contract year, extending his deal through April 15, 2012, at his $900,000 annual salary.
Kraft figured to be in line for a nice raise after leading the women’s team to indoor and outdoor national championships this past season. He would receive a salary bump of more than $32,000 annually — to $165,000 — on a deal running through June 30, 2012.
After working on a year-to-year basis, Quintana would receive a multi-year deal at $60,000 per (up more than $13,000) through June 30, 2012.
