Interesting note from the UCSB message board from a Q and A session with their Athletic Director.
http://ucsbgauchos.yuku.com/sreply/14897
Q: Fellow Big West partner UC Irvine became powers in volleyball & baseball practically overnight. Why haven't we been able to duplicate that success?
MM: Baseball first. Stadium. When UCI brought back baseball they did it with a new venue. Anteater Ballpark isn't much bigger than CU, but it sparkles. We are attacking that right now with the first phase being lights for the 2011 opener. The former players are committed to helping us in this. Next phases will be field, grandstands, amenities (like real bathrooms) and an entrance, which tells the history of not just Gaucho baseball but the Santa Barbara baseball history as well. We're close to announcing strategic partnership with the Foresters to attack all this.
But as the saying goes "how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time…" the locker-rooms and batting cages were bites one and two, the next bite is lights.
http://ucsbgauchos.yuku.com/sreply/14897
Q: Fellow Big West partner UC Irvine became powers in volleyball & baseball practically overnight. Why haven't we been able to duplicate that success?
MM: Baseball first. Stadium. When UCI brought back baseball they did it with a new venue. Anteater Ballpark isn't much bigger than CU, but it sparkles. We are attacking that right now with the first phase being lights for the 2011 opener. The former players are committed to helping us in this. Next phases will be field, grandstands, amenities (like real bathrooms) and an entrance, which tells the history of not just Gaucho baseball but the Santa Barbara baseball history as well. We're close to announcing strategic partnership with the Foresters to attack all this.
But as the saying goes "how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time…" the locker-rooms and batting cages were bites one and two, the next bite is lights.
