I read that $30,000,000 in maintenance to Hughes Stadium was deferred. What maintenance needs were deferred? Why was maintenance deferred while they built luxury boxes?

Listen, if you're going to watch a rebuilding football team in a stadium needing millions in renovations, wouldn't you want to do it from a state-of-the-art luxury box?

The luxury boxes were added during the last expansion and renovation of the Hughes Stadium in 2004 as part of an expansion and renovation that also included 4,000 new seats.

Do you remember 2004? 

We didn't even have Twitter then.

The entire $30 million doesn't necessarily represent "deferred" maintenance. It's more like $30 million in stuff that CSU believes needs to be done including maintenance, code compliance, upgrading, etc.

Some of it is required. For example, the restrooms don’t meet current building codes, and there are problems with ADA compliance in some areas. There are also elements that now are coming to the end of their life and need to be fixed or replaced: goal posts, steam boiler, scoreboards and seats to name a few. 

CSU officials argued that adding the luxury boxes would allow them to generate additional money from the premium seats that could be used elsewhere. And the university has been spending money on Hughes since that 2004 renovation, from new artificial turf on the field to $574,000 worth of new scoreboards, which were installed this fall.

You can check out the full list of what's on the $30,000,000 list here: http://www.colostate.edu/stadium/aug9/hughes-addendum.pdf.

And regarding the team, I kid because I care. Congrats to Coach McElwain and the team on a big improvement so far this season. Just two more wins and they'll be bowl eligible. Good luck, Rams!