13B said:

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Why couldn't the local High School fields be built up to par to accommodate Bombers one month of play and a few tourneys when the HS isn't playing? I am not into baseball so I don't know how all of the fields are used. I assume they aren't really used during June nor year round. High Schools would get great facilities and a means to recoup income and there wouldn't be a need to build new ones every few years. Just seems like it would be a better way to spend the funds for maximum usage but maybe I'm thinking too simplistic. Not to mention, local and high school clubs could run the concessions to earn more money.

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whoop1995 said:

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So these fields have always been promised and now a championship field has been in the mix always as well for all to play on.

Question when this field gets built for the bombers which will be regulation size for the high school and up are the little leagues and softball going to have that fake waist high fence placed out there for them? is the mound and bases going to be moved from the high school and above placement in order to accommodate the little league and softball teams?

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Bob Yancy said:

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whoop1995 said:

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So these fields have always been promised and now a championship field has been in the mix always as well for all to play on.

Question when this field gets built for the bombers which will be regulation size for the high school and up are the little leagues and softball going to have that fake waist high fence placed out there for them? is the mound and bases going to be moved from the high school and above placement in order to accommodate the little league and softball teams?

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Portable mounds and artificial turf infields with conversion capability has been discussed all along.

Respectfully

Yancy '95

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dubi said:

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Bob Yancy said:

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AggieBaseball06 said:

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Bob Yancy said:

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doubledog said:

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Bob, there is a saying. "When you buy a used car, you are buying someone else's problem"
I hope this does not become CoCS's problem.

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Thanks for the heads up. I think this is more like, when you rent out your new boat for 28 half days out of the year, charge a fair price and inspect her real carefully when she returns to the dock. :-)

Respectfully

Bob Yancy '95

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My biggest concern with the Bombers (besides the implications that they aren't the best business partners)-

What happens when other organizations want to rent your boat for 3 full days but the boat is only available for 2.5 days so they go find a different lake? It seems like we aren't maximizing our revenue in that situation.

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That's fair, but wouldn't we face that with or without the Bombers?

Respectfully

Yancy '95

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I think it would be easier to rent all the fields in the diamond to someone holding a tournament instead of holding a field for the Bombers for their home games. If a tournament rents 1 field for x dollars for the entire day, should the Bombers pay that entire daily rate for their one game in the evening? Or do they pay a lesser rate and we lose tournaments?

There are 3 new fields scheduled. You are going to have a contract with the Bombers for one of them. That leaves 2 new fields that are available 100% of the time during those contracted months.

I'd like to honestly ask why can't they build their own field? The owner has land in Mid-town as already mentioned above?

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Goose83 said:

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TAMU1990 said:

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Bob Yancy said:

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Captn_Ag05 said:

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Perhaps Mr. Yancy can clarify the timing, but the new fields (including the championship stadium) were announced back in December with very little negative reaction. My thought is that the Bombers leadership saw the plans and thought it sounded like a place they could play their games rather than it being a situation where the city is building a stadium for the Bombers.

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That's my general recollection. And I've learned on this thread that discussion of a champ field dates back to 2019. This is what we approved in December- 6 months ago… (see pic)

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365 to center is too small. Needs to be 385 at a minimum, unless you're going to build a very tall wall.

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A real championship field would be 400 feet to center field.

365 feet is a band box.

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cslifer said:

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Nothing wrong with the name, it is in reference to the old Bryan Army Airfield, a fairly significant training base during WW2.

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cslifer said:

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Dude, it is team of college kids living their baseball dream out. They dont even get paid outside of room and board so they can maintain college eligibility. I don't think historical accuracy is high on the list of priorities.

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doubledog said:

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cslifer said:

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Nothing wrong with the name, it is in reference to the old Bryan Army Airfield, a fairly significant training base during WW2.

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I was under the impression that the Bryan army airfield trained fighter pilots. Yoder (Wichita) was the bomber training airfield WW2.

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Independence H-D said:

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doubledog said:

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cslifer said:

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Nothing wrong with the name, it is in reference to the old Bryan Army Airfield, a fairly significant training base during WW2.

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I was under the impression that the Bryan army airfield trained fighter pilots. Yoder (Wichita) was the bomber training airfield WW2.

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Bryan Air Force Base was originally activated in 1943 as a U.S. Army Air Forces installation known as Bryan Army Air Field. The base housed a flight instructors' school and was assigned the task of developing a standardized system of instrument flight training. The Full Panel Attitude System developed at the base was one of the most significant contributions the base made to pilot training. The instrument training school at Bryan AAF was the only one of its kind in the United States Army Air Forces.[1]

With the end of World War II (WWII), the base was inactivated. The installation became Bryan Air Force Base upon the establishment of the U.S. Air Force (USAF) as a separate service in September 1947.[2]

In 1951, with the outbreak of the Korean War, the base was reactivated for USAF pilot training and the runways were extended.[2] Assigned to the Air Training Command, it conducted advanced flight training in the T-33 Shooting Star.[citation needed] In 1955, after combat in Korea had wound down, the USAF began reducing operations at the base, and in 1957, it announced that the base would be inactivated again in 1958.[2] The USAF fully vacated the base in May 1961.[4][2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Air_Force_Base

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EBrazosAg said:

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There are an incredible number of astronauts and Vietnam era and beyond pilots born in Bryan TX because of that base. It's great to fly over and think about , and to use the airport at Hearne which was a remote training strip.

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tbone94 said:

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Where will the bombers hold their practices?

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