More thuggery under John Calipari...and renegades in the Valley, and the new arena..

John Calipari effect??
One of University of Kentucky's stars...
Darnell Dodson, was first suspended, then booted, now he's arrested...
4:30AM outside of a bar...
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=5430024
http://www.allkyhoops.com/2010/10/calipari-confirms-darnell-dodson-no.html
http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20101015/SPORTS03/310150055/Former+Kentucky+basketball+player+Darnell+Dodson+arrested


How many people remember this...?
Two players on Wichita State were arrested late last year -- one is still with the team, but there's been little mention of Blair getting a suspension this season to correlate with his indiscretion..
With all the arrests and expulsions at ISU and SIU lately, surely they are in a heated battle for #1 renegade program in the Valley -- but if WSU fails to properly followup and discipline their offenders, then they'll move intio the top three.
(but they appear to have a way to go to catch Saint Louis University!)
......Gabe Blair, Clevin Hannah...arrsted..
http://www.kansas.com/2010/05/11/1308121/basketball.html



Here's a little blurb on BU's arena and why it's only 4200 seats..
=tornado][QUOTE=BradleyBrave;193902]...Tell me again why they couldn't add 1,500-2,000 seats above the lower bowl? ....[/QUOTE]

There is basically one reason...
that if you go to build such a thing as BU did, you HAVE TO approach the city and the numerous committees, legal representatives, and governing bodies,
as well as the represntatives of other people in the region who might oppose your plans...then...submit them and request approval.
The city decides things based on what they deem best for the applicant AND the city and especially the surrounding neighbors, infrastructure, facilities, roads, homes, etc...

And then when you've done the best you can do, and gotten approval to build an arena with 4,200 permanent seats (and 4500 total seats maximum - see legal approval links below) and enough room to maybe even fit an extra 1000 in there, then you do the best you can do.

But if you forge right ahead and build an arena for 6,000 when you only have permits and approval for 4,200, then you are not only being stupid, you are violating laws and ordinances, and setting yourself up for fines and lawsuits. It continues to be patently absurd that people keep asking why we didn't do it since we didn't have permission nor legal right to do it!!

Here's another example, maybe it'll be understandable...
if the city approves you a permit to build a theater with a seating caopacity of 1000, and a maximum occupancy on 1200, but you decide eggheadedly to ignore the advice of lawyers, builders, and city officials, and forge right ahead and build a theater with 2500 seats, wouldn't that be about the absolute dumbest thing you could do??
Then all the people over on the message boards would be ripping into you for doing such a really stupid thing.

Here are just a few of the proceedings by the city that have limited what BU could do -- so BU did everything they could -- they should be applauded for getting the project done given the limitations and restrictions...
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:b-4iLUpIAcIJ:www.ci.peoria.il.us/officials/clerk/Agenda/MG49764/AS49768/AS49775/AI49915/DO49936/DO_49936.pdf+%22www.ci.peoria.il.us%22+and+%224500+seat+arena%22&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShd36Pyuf3djpBJsL1xfusDFX3PQyr5VUuaeUW9epfoWvTE1N_xIhjY-zcnOACv08eloLSWZq2XZz-azxOmpqPZeeOahXzZgXxCCLpS5bscHW4qgn7uJXIa5OCh1hb9vrUMXfwE&sig=AHIEtbRIFpcrh2xkbb9wPX_GKEPw2YBYtg
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:H9fANoYY98IJ:www.ci.peoria.il.us/officials/clerk/Agenda/MG57070/AS57074/AS57081/AI57119/DO57127/DO_57127.pdf+%22bradley%22+and+%22arena%22+and+%22peoria%22+and+%22approval%22&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjo-OVTbfF7CeA_pnZpnlqL6oJp6Q68i_xim8K1bLgUWBIQEMmZTYlr8MLdXJ1X4NHcaS0DFSi2dwCnbgeYuBwAsyrRJxi0Fcayx8-uZCwPXbl_w_mkh24fv2mEMb0bhHrxaG2y&sig=AHIEtbTHfd3r4v50UKe9zjmqGZGXLlwbjQ
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:fGRQXArA7RgJ:www.ci.peoria.il.us/resourcesmodule/download_resource/id/2575/src/%40random477cfc5f338a1/+%22bradley%22+and+%22arena%22+and+%22peoria%22+and+%22approval%22&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShYcdKERrXrNlPJk1obd4rGNsxXkZkBoD7nS7RmDCkgw60AMnKiotohvhxP18SWPtjMUL9So7VgGsNzia_Ja5osZ58MFkAPs_TYNuv280W8faex71bdMH7uJB1f_2u2zi_29pla&sig=AHIEtbTWHK9_tv5jN2HSe9WYMWlx7oDIUghttp://www.ci.peoria.il.us/city-clerk-minutes
http://www.ci.peoria.il.us/2006


Quoting the 1st link above...here is exactly what BU had permission to build, and nothing bigger could have possibly been built...
"130,000 square foot facility"
"4,500 seat arena" (4200 seats are permanent seats)
"parking deck - five story, 620 parking spaces - not to exceed height 66 feet"
..then the document goes on to describe the changes required and limits to the traffic patterns, traffic signals, lighting, lane additions, pedestrian lighting, fences, screens, sidewalks, lighting improvements, landscaping, and other safety, neighborhood concerns, etc., etc., etc.....