BAMANEWSBOT
Staff
Florida finally got its indoor practice facility-building act together last month, which left Georgia as by far the most prominent SEC team without such a facility or -- at the minimum -- concrete plans to build one.
But in a case of "better late than never," it looks like that won't be the case for long. The Georgia Athletic Association had its quarterly meeting Monday, and Bulldogs athletic director Greg McGarity came out of that meeting confident that plans will be finalized and rubber-stamped soon.
"We are moving very quickly, as quickly as possible," McGarity said, per the Associated Press. Dawgs247.com reported that the current, tentative proposal would place the facility near the campus's Butts-Mehre football complex and Stegeman Coliseum.
McGarity put the cost of the facility in the "ballpark" of $30 million. Though artist's renderings have been produced, they have not been made available to the public.
McGarity wasn't the only major Georgia official confident that the project will be officially undertaken in the relatively near future.
"It's going to move along rapidly in my view," university president Jere Morehead said, per Dawgs247. "I'm not going to get into dates, but I would hope the process would be sooner rather than later. But we have an integrative review process that we are required to follow with the Board of Regents, and we're going to follow that process."
Per the AP, when circumstances demand, the Bulldogs currently bus an hour to the Atlanta Falcons' indoor practice facility in Flowery Branch, Ga.
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But in a case of "better late than never," it looks like that won't be the case for long. The Georgia Athletic Association had its quarterly meeting Monday, and Bulldogs athletic director Greg McGarity came out of that meeting confident that plans will be finalized and rubber-stamped soon.
"We are moving very quickly, as quickly as possible," McGarity said, per the Associated Press. Dawgs247.com reported that the current, tentative proposal would place the facility near the campus's Butts-Mehre football complex and Stegeman Coliseum.
McGarity put the cost of the facility in the "ballpark" of $30 million. Though artist's renderings have been produced, they have not been made available to the public.
McGarity wasn't the only major Georgia official confident that the project will be officially undertaken in the relatively near future.
"It's going to move along rapidly in my view," university president Jere Morehead said, per Dawgs247. "I'm not going to get into dates, but I would hope the process would be sooner rather than later. But we have an integrative review process that we are required to follow with the Board of Regents, and we're going to follow that process."
Per the AP, when circumstances demand, the Bulldogs currently bus an hour to the Atlanta Falcons' indoor practice facility in Flowery Branch, Ga.
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