Glad you got out! Yes lines 1-3 are the strongest usually. Same with the other teams.

Let's turn our women's basketball practice gym into an indoor tennis court

That's a brilliant idea!

If the ice storm comes that is a possibility, everything would likely need to head south to Houston to avoid it.

I do have a question, how much would it cost to build the most basic indoor barn that Baylor has? Basically no room for any fans, only players, coaches, and family allowed in. We always propose some kind of grand performance indoor facility that would host fans, but that's not what Baylor has and we seem to envy here. How much for just the most basic barn that isn't really for fans to attend matches in? It has to be significantly cheaper than what we usually discuss.

Our women's tennis team would beat our WBB in a pickup game tomorrow.

Baylor isn't a barn. City of Bryan is a barn

Baylor is 6 courts, climate controlled, plus I believe a small pro shop/lobby. That's gonna be like $15mil now.

The plans I once saw that were for the space between Mitchell and the new PE building were similar to Baylor.

We need to face it, we could win 2 more nattys and the athletic dept still won't do anything. They don't care about tennis at all.

They don't care about much of anything besides football. However, I do think there are coaches that have the full support of the admin. Most of these schools have indoor facilities because of big donors footing the bill. The reality is, we have not had anyone step up to the plate yet. If someone wrote a $10,000,000 check, it would get done.

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They don't care about much of anything besides football. However, I do think there are coaches that have the full support of the admin. Most of these schools have indoor facilities because of big donors footing the bill. The reality is, we have not had anyone step up to the plate yet. If someone wrote a $10,000,000 check, it would get done.

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Someone committed $1mil a few years ago, and they re-routed it to football…

No, I mean, someone will have to come in and say they will finance the building of a new tennis facility...not just give a donation.

According to the people I know within the program, it was given to tennis for indoors. And it was never put towards indoors. Take that for what you will. These people wouldn't make it up.

Those people need to ask for their money back then.

But, I think if someone came to Trev and said, hey, I have $15m to donate to build the tennis facility what they need - it would happen.

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Those people need to ask for their money back then.

But, I think if someone came to Trev and said, hey, I have $15m to donate to build the tennis facility what they need - it would happen.

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Agreed. 15m is way different than 1!

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Pepperdine takes down tu 5-2. Some consolation for what they did to us in WBB today.

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Texas did not look good but the freshman we were supposed to get looked fantastic, unfortunately.

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According to the people I know within the program, it was given to tennis for indoors. And it was never put towards indoors. Take that for what you will. These people wouldn't make it up.

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Did they write it on the memo line of the check or something and no one saw it or it was illegible?

The 12th Man Foundation would do that type of restricted donation with a contract.

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According to the people I know within the program, it was given to tennis for indoors. And it was never put towards indoors. Take that for what you will. These people wouldn't make it up.

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Did they write it on the memo line of the check or something and no one saw it or it was illegible?

The 12th Man Foundation would do that type of restricted donation with a contract.

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That I don't know. I wasn't there for the transaction…

Bottom line, I believe (from what I know) that we have had people come forward to donate for indoors, and it has still not happened. The ADs in the past have always found a way to fund every other project other than tennis.

When the indoor football/track project was presented a few years ago, it was for $200mil I believe. They could have EASILY tacked on $20 for tennis and it would have been funded. For whatever reason, they chose not to. The athletic dept does not care to get indoors funded even though it is a major stumbling block for recruiting and bringing quality opponents to College Station.

I can think of a few possibilities, but the 12th Man Foundation could not just re-route something restricted for indoor tennis to football.

The possibilities are that it didn't occur fully like you were told and there are some key points missing OR the funds are still sitting there to be used and additional million are needed to get it funded and off the ground OR the people making the donation decided they wanted to use it for something else that was going to be built sooner and they personally re-routed it to football.

Can you follow up and get more details? Seems like something we don't actually have to speculate on.

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I can think of a few possibilities, but the 12th Man Foundation could not just re-route something restricted for indoor tennis to football.

The possibilities are that it didn't occur fully like you were told and there are some key points missing OR the funds are still sitting there to be used and additional million are needed to get it funded and off the ground OR the people making the donation decided they wanted to use it for something else that was going to be built sooner and they personally re-routed it to football.

Can you follow up and get more details? Seems like something we don't actually have to speculate on.

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You really think they wouldn't re-route money from a non rev sport to one of the biggest money makers in the nation?!? Do you know how football works??

I know you know what I mean. No, I won't follow up with my source on this. It's a bit of a sore subject with them.

I do think if someone wanted to donate a mil to tennis, and the AD and 12th man foundation felt they could use it elsewhere and it benefit football, they would ABSOLUTELY convince the donor to move it. You're probably right, the 12th man foundation didn't do it on their own. But I can guarantee you they could do some persuading to make it happen.

Our coaches have been lied to for 10+ years about indoors. It's really sad. Everyone thought the women winning a natty would help. Didn't even move the needle. Hell, Denton can't touch Weaver's accomplishments and yet he gets a 10 year deal for mediocrity and makes significantly more than Mark. The way the athletic dept treats tennis as a whole is a joke.

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Baylor built theirs for $7M 10 or 12 years ago. Construction costs have gone up but not diubled. It could be built for 10 or less.

What I heard about that donation was that when the donor was told building the facility was not imminent they moved the money over to football. I was told that by a friend who worked in the 12th man foundation. That doesn't make the result any better but it's not like they just took the money by force.

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So the 12MF convinced them to move it. The coaches have been told for years that the 12MF was working on it, but obviously it isn't even on the drawing board right now. It's really sad

Good post. Could not agree more.

You say that's not how A&M does things, yet we were in an agreement with the City of Bryan to get partial use of a half-a$$ indoor multi purpose public facility for a measly price of $675k a year for facility NOT ON CAMPUS that wasn't even ours.

outside of our annual debate about the indoor facilities that we all keep losing lol - it seems like the doubles pairings are more than likely set. for now, we will see:

1) Lulu / Mia
2) Anna / Violeta
3) Daria / Lexington

Lines 2 and 3 flip flopped in the second match of each day (Friday and Sunday). Tilde played line 1 with Lulu on Sunday afternoon. Hoping Mia is ok and we are just giving her a bit of a rest.

Singles at this point:

1) Mia
2) Lulu
3) Lexington
4-5) Violeta / Daria
6) Anna
7) Tilde

**Daria played Line 4 for 2 matches and Violeta played Line 4 for 2 matches.

It seems Nicole is a no go this year. I hope we see her back for NCAAs, but I'm not sure what will happen with that. Only those inside the coaching circle know. We need to stay healthy from this point on.

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You really think they wouldn't re-route money from a non rev sport to one of the biggest money makers in the nation?!? Do you know how football works??

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They can't re-route restricted funds. It is really as simply as that. So, something is missing from what you are sharing.

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Okay so maybe it wasn't restricted

But as JPN said, the 12MF will help convince someone to move money from one project to football. That's not right, in my opinion. They aren't working for all sports the same.

I get the revenue part and without football tennis wouldn't happen. The coaches get that too, we've talked about it. Still doesn't make it right.

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So, it falls into one of my options above:

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OR the people making the donation decided they wanted to use it for something else that was going to be built sooner and they personally re-routed it to football.

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Yes they made the decision, possibly. Do you not think some smooth talker inside the 12MF isn't trying to convince people to do it though? Honestly?

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