I'm expecting to hear 80 Million for this redo. Ole Miss' amazing new showplace that fits its fanbase cost 96 million. The parking lot of the Joel will be just fine for our new stadium--though I bet we could do better with a land swap. But, again, the location is secondary. No matter how many seats you take out of the Joel, you will still have cavernous, empty, sound sucking space. The place simply isn't designed for college basketball. Way too slow a slope backing away from the floor, way too much space, no proper cut for student seating. Those things cannot be fixed.
NC State continues to suffer from playing in a mixed use building. College basketball is best in places built just for that. We should have insisted on it when we were lured out of old Wake Forest. Since we left Gore Gymnasium, we have never had a place built just for us. The Joel is 27 years old. Carmichael lasted 19 years. It's time for us to build our own gym.