Smart footwork by SDSU showed big things still can happen in San Diego
Despite the massive off-field story still roiling, the university deserves credit for a facility that will have an impact on San Diego for at least a generation. It also signals that a city labeled as non-finishers in sports — still waiting on a major professional championship — flashed the grit and gumption to get something special done.
San Diego State’s $310 million success story owes itself to facing off against a rival plan, conquering the ballot box, piling due diligence on due diligence and displaying nimble and savvy financial footwork.Unlike other projects tripped up by the unknown or the unexpected, the university listened, listened and listened some more before a shovel ever pierced soil on the 166-acre location in Mission Valley.
“If you build to ‘70’ to get a Super Bowl, you’re only going to get that once every 10 years. If you’re not getting any on all those seats, why do it?” Go back, though, to when we all began to understand how broadly Wicker and those on campus thought about what a stadium could be — and just as importantly, what it could mean.
“There’s a Steve Fisher basketball show from the spring of 2017 where we did a whole segment on ‘technology square’ and what that would look like in Mission Valley,” Wicker said. “We worked really hard to know when ships were coming with steel and divert it if we needed to,” Wicker said. “We ended up starting two weeks late, but put on an extra crew and we ended up finishing steel early.”
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