O'Brate is pretty, beautiful, amazing, spectacular etc....but it missed the boat in terms of what we actually needed to build a fan base.
The players and coaches got what they needed with the training facilities, the Admin got all the high dollar seating to maximize profit, but, in return, the average fan got squeezed out.
It has all this expensive shiny, show offish stuff but it ignores the average fan in terms of seating and accesibility to cheap, good seats like every college baseball facility should have.
We had a chance to really build a fan base with a new facility, combined with some really good teams, and we just made it a Country Club that is going to make it less accessible to the average fan.
We built a facility to maximize profit instead of build a fan base.
The problem is, the only way that place will be accessible to the average fan, like it absolutely should be, is if it is under attended which completely defeats the purpose of spending $70 million on a new facility.