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Pat Dye Field => War Damn Eagle => Topic started by: jadennis on December 15, 2009, 01:07:33 PM
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Indoor facilities.
Alabama: Facilities - Rolltide.com - The Official Web Site of University of Alabama Athletics
110 yd, heated and air conditioned
(http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0fXidZkdb815k/439x.jpg)
Arkansas: No indoor facility.
Florida: No indoor facility (but just opened a $28 million football "complex").
Facilities - GatorZone.com
(http://www.gatorzone.com/facilities/gateway/slideshow/plaza/06.jpg)
Georgia: No indoor practice facility (but in process of $40 million 53,000 sq ft football complex expansion).
http://www.georgiadogs.com//pdf4/416...DB_OEM_ID=8800 (http://www.georgiadogs.com//pdf4/416...DB_OEM_ID=8800)
Kentucky: No indoor practice facility (do have an indoor track facility that has turf in the middle).
LSU: 100 yd climate controlled facility
(http://image.cdnl3.xosnetwork.com/src/data/lsu/images/fb/indoor2.jpg)
Football operations center built in 2006 for $15 million
Tour the LSU Football Operations Center - LSUsports.net - The Official Web Site of LSU Tigers Athletics
Mississippi State: Relatively new indoor facility, climate controlled, shared with baseball team.
Palmeiro Center - Mississippi State University Bulldogs Official Athletic Site - mstateathletics.com
(http://photos.msstate.edu/Pic_of_the_Day/small/7-5-2006.jpg)
Ole Miss: Full size indoor facility.
(http://image.cdnl3.xosnetwork.com/fls/2600/images/406844.jpg)
South Carolina: No indoor facility, but building a huge new athletic complex (fields, buildings, etc).
Tennessee: Full size indoor facility (very nice)...check out the tour University of Tennessee Neyland-Thompson Sports Complex STACK TV
(http://grfx.cstv.com/schools/tennw/graphics/sports/w-softbl/neyland-thompson-indoor.jpg)
I used to think that an indoor facility was an absolute must. After looking at who has them and who doesn't, I'm not positive it's the best use of money. Florida and Georgia both do not have one, yet constantly have top 10 recruiting classes. LSU has had one since the early 90s (?), yet their recruiting was nothing special until they got a true recruiter there.
I'm kind of leaning towards an upgrade in the overall football "complex" similar to what Florida just did, what LSU did in 2006, and what Georgia is currently doing. Florida's was $28 million, Georgia's will be $40 million (which looks like it will include some indoor practice area, but not a full field), and LSU's was $15 million. Those facilities have a big time "wow" factor. Meyer and Richt both seem to see more recruiting value in those facilities than in adding an indoor field. Meyer even said that recruiting was the #1 reason for building the new complex.
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Tuberville said we needed one. He always alluded that this was the reason he couldn't recruit the 5 star guys consistently. Maybe there was another reason after all?!?
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I wouldn't mind seeing an upgrade to ours. Pretty much a dump. I think keeping the complex, weight room and areas where the players spend most of their time top of the line is a priority. If players see state of the art facilities where they'll be hanging out, I would imagine that's a huge plus. Lounges and wide screens everywhere.
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More programs with indoor facilities that apparently don't sway too many top recruits....
Illinois
(http://www.athletics.illinois.edu/facilities/facilities/irwin_practice/images/gallery04.jpg)
Kansas
(http://graphics.fansonly.com/schools/kan/graphics/07-anschutz1-450.jpg)
Colorado
(http://colorado.construction.com/images/2009/0908_F2a_CSU04_IndoorPractice.jpg)
Wisconsin
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2194/1888627546_4fbefdd3e7.jpg?v=0)
Baylor
(http://grfx.cstv.com/schools/bay/graphics/facilities/faci-allisonA-lg.jpg)
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I would imagine some of those schools, Wismommy partsome, Illinois, Colorado etc. have to have indoor facilities with the weather that rolls through. I think there is a need for at least an adequate indoor facility, not from a recruiting standpoint, but more to have a viable option when the weather is teh sux. Auburn's doesn't cut the mustard in that regard.
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I think we could have used a lot more for football than a basketball arena...but that's just me.
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I wouldn't mind seeing an upgrade to ours. Pretty much a dump. I think keeping the complex, weight room and areas where the players spend most of their time top of the line is a priority. If players see state of the art facilities where they'll be hanging out, I would imagine that's a huge plus. Lounges and wide screens everywhere.
This is what I'm thinking. Looking at the new buildings Alabama, LSU, and Florida have, it's more impressive to me than a 100 yd field in a bubble.
LSU:
(http://image.cdnl3.xosnetwork.com/pics14/0/XN/XNYZGPEJYKYXMGA.20070731181557.jpg)
(http://image.cdnl3.xosnetwork.com/pics/0/HS/HSTARECUVZDADVE.20070731181552.jpg)
(http://image.cdnl3.xosnetwork.com/pics17/0/RB/RBBEPDVPIUESKAS.20070731181559.jpg)
Alabama:
(http://grfx.cstv.com/schools/alab/graphics/moore-ath-facility.jpg)
(http://grfx.cstv.com/schools/alab/graphics/archive_images/20411.jpg)
http://www.rolltide.com/facilities/moore-athletic-facility.html (http://www.rolltide.com/facilities/moore-athletic-facility.html)
Florida
(http://www.gatorzone.com/facilities/gateway/slideshow/plaza/07.jpg)
(http://www.gatorzone.com/facilities/gateway/slideshow/foyer/03.jpg)
(http://www.gatorzone.com/facilities/gateway/slideshow/offices/08.jpg)
(http://www.gatorzone.com/facilities/gateway/slideshow/gatorroom/03.jpg)
(http://www.gatorzone.com/facilities/gateway/slideshow/weightroom/01.jpg)
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We already have one. It's just not full sized. It sure beats the hell out of the old bubble. Damn that thing was cold in the winter.
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Damn. Let me hang around those training tables, weight rooms etc. for a few months....I'd be a big, bad mo-fo....instead of a message board tough guy.
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Damn. Let me hang around those training tables, weight rooms etc. for a few months....I'd be a big, bad mo-fo....instead of a message board tough guy.
You still wouldn't get chicks.
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You still wouldn't get chicks.
Damn.
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Arkansas: No indoor facility.
http://razorbacks.flex360.net/facility.asp?id=5 (http://razorbacks.flex360.net/facility.asp?id=5)
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http://razorbacks.flex360.net/facility.asp?id=5 (http://razorbacks.flex360.net/facility.asp?id=5)
You photo-shopped that...everyone knows the state doesn't even have indoor plumbing, let alone an indoor practice facility.
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I swore Arkansas had one, but for whatever reason, looking around their site, I didn't see it.
I see now what I did. On the interactive facilities map, if you scroll over the indoor facility icon, it says "mens weight room"....you have to move the mouse lower and it changes to "Willard and Pat Walker Pavilion".
So sorry about that, but thanks, we can add that to the previous post of schools with a facility that doesn't seem to matter much in recruiting. ;)
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I swore Arkansas had one, but for whatever reason, looking around their site, I didn't see it.
I see now what I did. On the interactive facilities map, if you scroll over the indoor facility icon, it says "mens weight room"....you have to move the mouse lower and it changes to "Willard and Pat Walker Pavilion".
So sorry about that, but thanks, we can add that to the previous post of schools with a facility that doesn't seem to matter much in recruiting. ;)
Arkansas doesn't need to recruit. They are already loaded.
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I swore Arkansas had one, but for whatever reason, looking around their site, I didn't see it.
I see now what I did. On the interactive facilities map, if you scroll over the indoor facility icon, it says "mens weight room"....you have to move the mouse lower and it changes to "Willard and Pat Walker Pavilion".
So sorry about that, but thanks, we can add that to the previous post of schools with a facility that doesn't seem to matter much in recruiting. ;)
We have a sweet indoor practice facility with a HUGE weight room above. We're behind in Locker rooms and meeting rooms. The big push right now at Arkansas is for a basketball practice facility.
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We have a sweet indoor practice facility with a HUGE weight room above. We're behind in Locker rooms and meeting rooms. The big push right now at Arkansas is for a basketball practice facility.
I've seen the weight room, it is quite impressive. If Cowboy Jones hadn't just built Jerry World in Dallas, I bet you could get the facilities upgraded....Jerry Jones Football Plaza...probably in the future and I'm surprised it doesn't already exist.
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You photo-shopped that...everyone knows the state doesn't even have indoor plumbing, let alone an indoor practice facility.
We piss on the field, but Petrino makes us go outside to shit.
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Arkansas doesn't need to recruit. They are already loaded at running back.
There ya go.
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Rollin 5 deep, bitch
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Yeah but the only reason any 4-star+ player is at any school other than Alabama is if Saban didn't want him. Be grateful you can even field a team Hogs. If there were no 85 scholarship limit, Saban would have the top 276 players dressed out in Crimson.
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Yeah but the only reason any 4-star+ player is at any school other than Alabama is if Saban didn't want him. Be grateful you can even field a team Hogs. If there were no 85 scholarship limit, Saban would have the top 276 players dressed out in Crimson.
Alabama. Where they shit out Heisman trophy winning running backs.
We ain't got nothing. Losing Dyer will set us back 10 years.
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Alabama. Where they shit out Heisman trophy winning running backs.
We ain't got nothing. Losing Dyer will set us back 10 years.
20 if he went to Alabama.
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Alabama. Where they shit out Heisman trophy winning running backs.
We ain't got nothing. Losing Dyer will set us back 10 years.
On the heels of losing kobi, yall might as well have had teh death penalty.
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Losing Dyer will set us back 10 years.
If you lose Mallett it might. Since thats all Arkansas has.
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If you lose Mallett it might. Since thats all Arkansas has.
Just keep on believing, brother. One monkey ain't gonna stop this circus.
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Just keep on believing, brother. One monkey ain't gonna stop this circus.
Ummm...Unless said "monkey" is a 6'7" 245lb QB that can throw the ball over the mountains...then yeah, the cicus might come to a halt or a slow crawl.
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Auburn just refurbished their AD Building.....Flat Screens, Couches, Pool Tables, Air Hockey Tables, Dinning Tables. Hell, it looks somewhat similar to Florida's on the inside, with paintings, Award winners, lists of all of the NFL players former and current, pictures of a lot of the current NFLers, Murals. Cool shit like that. IMO, if it hasn't already been done, the weight room should make a grown man weep like Ingram because of it's beauty and bad assness. I might even do something to the South Endzone, something similar to Tampa Bay's...but make it a Jungle Theme...like a rainforest, with tree houses.
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You want some bullshit?
The money was offered by a few boosters to build the indoor facility. Tubs was ecstatic.
Jacobs? Said "nah." We didn't want their money.
Fucking jackass.
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If you lose Mallett it might. Since thats all Arkansas has.
Our next QB can chunk and juke.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nu-Qsks9OE# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nu-Qsks9OE#)
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I might even do something to the South Endzone, something similar to Tampa Bay's...but make it a Jungle Theme...like a rainforest, with tree houses.
:fag:
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I might even do something to the South Endzone, something similar to Tampa Bay's...but make it a Jungle Theme...like a rainforest, with tree houses.
I seriously hope that you just forgot to put this :sarcasm: on the above
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I seriously hope that you just forgot to put this :sarcasm: on the above
Oh....uh, yeah...of course.
I meant the North Endzone.