Buy The Stadium or Help Them Buy Their Own

Discussion in 'Tampa Bay Rowdies' started by kenntomasch, May 7, 2012.

  1. kenntomasch

    kenntomasch Member+

    Sep 2, 1999
    Out West
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I can't figure out which this is, but you can do it on their site, for between $1 and $1,000:

    http://rowdiessoccer.newclients.com/p/46/stadium-purchase

    I gotta see a picture, though, before I can commit. And I have to know if I'm going to get an actual stadium, when and how you're going to deliver it and how big it is so I can clear some room in the back yard.

    If I'm helping you buy your own stadium, let me know that, too.

    Kthxbye.
     
  2. Macsen

    Macsen Moderator
    Staff Member

    Nov 5, 2007
    Orlando
    Club:
    Orlando City SC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Outside any official word (maybe even with), it looks like a scam to me.
     
  3. kenntomasch

    kenntomasch Member+

    Sep 2, 1999
    Out West
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    If they have it in XXL, I might consider it.
     
  4. XaviusX

    XaviusX Member

    Mar 21, 2001
    Tampa, Florida
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    It's gotta be either a web error or a hack job, 'cause if it were legit, I'm sure the club would've advertised it already.
     
  5. MLSinSTL

    MLSinSTL Member+

    Columbus Crew
    United States
    Mar 20, 2009
    Ohio - near a city
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    That is absolutely the best thing I have seen today. And no, it's not been a bad day! At first, I thought it was maybe just a fake screen shot, but this is actually in the Rowdies team store and it's just great.
    Kenn, I can't figure out which it is either - am I buying the stadium or helping the team buy a stadium. Any which way you slice it, they might want to take it down or maybe add a bit more description to the item. Also, if you don't want to buy a stadium in Tampa, I have a bridge I could sell you in Brooklyn. ;)
     
  6. speedcake

    speedcake Member

    Dec 2, 1999
    Tampa
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    That has been there for weeks now. If it is a hack job and the team still hasn't fixed it, what does that tell you?

    If it isn't a hack job, well then your guess is as good as mine.
     
  7. G Enriquez

    G Enriquez Member+

    Apr 1, 2002
    Tampa
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Maybe we can get "Uncle" Phil Anschutz to help us out with a new stadium.
    Surely,he can help build us a modest, little stadium. Look at the Houston Dynamo's new BBVA Compass Stadium that he just help build.
    http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/artic...ews-follow-first-session-bbva-compass-stadium
    I think we would be happy with our own Blackbaud Stadium.:)
    http://www.buyhomesincharleston.com/img/Recreation/charleston battery.jpg

    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/soccer/us/news/2002/04/09/phils_family_sa/
    http://aol.sportingnews.com/soccer/...schutz-close-to-purchase-of-tottenham-hotspur
     
  8. XaviusX

    XaviusX Member

    Mar 21, 2001
    Tampa, Florida
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    The more I see BLACKBAUD STADIUM, the more I keep praying that we get a stadium like that. I would even kill to have a venue like the Atlanta Silverbacks' Stadium (which I've been to in person) for the Rowdies!
     
  9. kenntomasch

    kenntomasch Member+

    Sep 2, 1999
    Out West
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Blackbaud is fabulous. It cost $5.9M 13 years ago, though. I shudder to think what it would cost today.
     
  10. G Enriquez

    G Enriquez Member+

    Apr 1, 2002
    Tampa
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    If you like the way it looks from that photo,you'll love it in person. The stadium is located on Daniel Island in a great little neighborhood. The stadium has a team store and the awesome,Three Lions Pub.

    http://www.charlestonbattery.com/stadium_overview.asp
     
  11. G Enriquez

    G Enriquez Member+

    Apr 1, 2002
    Tampa
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Kenn,you've been to Blackbaud doing USL broadcast haven't you?
     
  12. Macsen

    Macsen Moderator
    Staff Member

    Nov 5, 2007
    Orlando
    Club:
    Orlando City SC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
     
  13. Mikey mouse

    Mikey mouse Member

    Jul 27, 1999
    Charleston, SC
    Club:
    Charleston
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I'm am pretty sure that cost would be much much higher now.

    Back then, Daniel Island was mostly marsh and undeveloped. I believe Tony Baker (the main Battery owner) controlled most the land as he was the founder of Blackbaud Software, which the stadium shares a parking lot.

    Today, Daniel Island is a growing community and house prices have continued to raise despite the housing market. the land alone would likely be more than the $5.9 million.

    and everytime I walk into the stadium I am grateful we have such a great little stadium. I wish more clubs could replicate it.
     
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  14. kenntomasch

    kenntomasch Member+

    Sep 2, 1999
    Out West
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Last year was the first time I'd been there. Met Mikey, even, which was cool. The Three Lions is the single greatest soccer thing I've ever seen in this country.
     
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  15. Mikey mouse

    Mikey mouse Member

    Jul 27, 1999
    Charleston, SC
    Club:
    Charleston
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    my name is Mikey and I endorse this post...
     
  16. G Enriquez

    G Enriquez Member+

    Apr 1, 2002
    Tampa
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Thanks O-Ray. You beat him to the punch.
     
  17. kenntomasch

    kenntomasch Member+

    Sep 2, 1999
    Out West
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    You know, I can do that myself. :)
     
  18. Soccer Budgie

    Soccer Budgie Member

    Mar 8, 2010
    Tampa, Florida
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I wish Charleston would join the NASL...
     
  19. kenntomasch

    kenntomasch Member+

    Sep 2, 1999
    Out West
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    You know that doesn't make any sense for them, right?
     
  20. Soccer Budgie

    Soccer Budgie Member

    Mar 8, 2010
    Tampa, Florida
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Well yes, I guess... but not where I was coming from. I meant it from a strictly selfish perspective; if Charleston was in the NASL, I could travel there with the ROWDIES and enjoy seeing my team play on their field, and tip a few in the Pub while enjoying a ROWDIES victory. LOL
     
  21. WhiteStar Warriors

    Mar 25, 2007
    St.Pete/Krakow
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States

    and who is the one with the glass houses comment and who's trolling now?
     
  22. The Irish Rover

    The Irish Rover Member+

    Aug 1, 2010
    Dublin
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Ireland Republic
    Even by your standards this post makes absolutely no sense.
     
  23. kenntomasch

    kenntomasch Member+

    Sep 2, 1999
    Out West
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I know. He just doesn't get it.
     
  24. speedcake

    speedcake Member

    Dec 2, 1999
    Tampa
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    It only doesn't make sense for them because they have made it clear that they are happy in D3 for now. We don't really know that Charleston wouldn't thrive in the NASL and on a somewhat larger budget until its tried.

    But I don't blame them at all for not wanting to risk what they've built. I'd hope that while they are publicly very happy with their current situation, they are also taking a close look at the pros and cons of moving up.

    If not, then so be it. But I'm also selfish, it'd be pretty cool to have them in the NASL.
     
  25. kenntomasch

    kenntomasch Member+

    Sep 2, 1999
    Out West
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    And part of the reason they're happy in D3 is that it makes more sense for them than D2 at this point. I mean,what more reason do you need, really, than they believe it doesn't make sense for them? It doesn't matter what you believe or I believe or some other random person believes. They believe it doesn't make sense for them. Ergo, it doesn't make sense for them.

    Trust me, Andrew Bell is a friend of mine, we've talked about this quite a bit. Because of where their club is as an organization and because of the landscape at the moment, the second division makes no sense for them right now. If - as most businesses would be - you'd rather not lose scads of money.

    Did you miss that they were a second-division team for many years?

    Only Tony Bakker knows for sure what their financial fortunes were in the second division, and they dropped out of it, in part, over the uncertainty over the whole USL/TOA mess, only to find that life was just fine in the third division.

    Could they be a second division team again? I guess. All they'd have to do is want to. Have they won the second division before? Yes. Have they won the third division? Yes. Are they going to be an MLS market? No. Do they need to be a second division market? It doesn't appear so, does it?

    They're still going to be constrained by the fact that they don't even have 700,000 people in their metro. They're smaller than Akron and Worcester and Dayton. And as the economics of the game have changed and continue to do so, it's going to be more and more difficult for markets of this size to be effective second-division markets. Having their own stadium would put them ahead of some other D3-type people who would be overly ambitious, but it still wouldn't be easy. It's getting more expensive - not less expensive - to do this well.

    So, no, the second division doesn't make sense for Charleston. And, yes, because they say so.
     

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