NU to unveil $150 million football facility plan Friday

BigRedBuster said:
I'm assuming you're meaning that the old wood lockers were moved to the VB locker room at the Devany.

The way this is worded, makes it sound like they have a locker room at the football complex.

OR....is it that they use that locker room just for when they are using the weight room and other parts of that facility?
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I have no idea but I read somewhere they were using the old locker room. I think they did mean they moved the old lockers to the volleyball complex
 
krc1995 said:
This makes me pissed. How can we build such a palace and then suck so much.
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What pisses me off is so much of the money spent was for no other purpose than to impress 18-24 year old kids. It has absolutely nothing to do with making them a better football player. Literally millions just for that purpose. When you think about it, that’s messed up. Then, that facility was built for a roster of 140-150. Now, we will have a roster of 105 eventually. More wasted money because it could have been smaller.

But, that’s the world we live in.
 
“Sold out since 1962? You don’t see that too often”

Yeah, duh…it’s a record that will never be broken for any team in any sport ever.

Also, “this is the student section? The Boneyard?” Thought that was pretty cool he wanted to know where his peers sit at.
 
BigRedBuster said:
What pisses me off is so much of the money spent was for no other purpose than to impress 18-24 year old kids. It has absolutely nothing to do with making them a better football player. Literally millions just for that purpose. When you think about it, that’s messed up. Then, that facility was built for a roster of 140-150. Now, we will have a roster of 105 eventually. More wasted money because it could have been smaller.

But, that’s the world we live in.
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Agree. How many whatever’s could we have bought? Sure. It’s eye popping, but what recruits want is money.

And now I’m more pissed. You know who deserved that 150 million- the fans. In nicer seats and maybe a pavilion to eat fork foods. In makes zero impact on our rental players. We’re the ones that live in that hell hole.
 
krc1995 said:
Agree. How many whatever’s could we have bought? Sure. It’s eye popping, but what recruits want is money.

And now I’m more pissed. You know who deserved that 150 million- the fans. In nicer seats and maybe a pavilion to eat fork foods. In makes zero impact on our rental players. We’re the ones that live in that hell hole.
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Well they need to do a reseat and you see how pissy the vball fans are? Fball fans would be 10x worse.
 
Hilltop said:
So should we blow our wad on one season? F$%k it, spend it all? I'm sure we will be fine.... smh. Grow up kid.
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Hilltop said:
I think it's fine to discuss the stuff because that can be fun to guess the impact of changes as long as we don't get the noose out every time we don't agree with
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That’s a pretty dramatic and emotional take. There’s a difference between being aggressive with resources and being irresponsible. If you’ve got a counter-argument, make it—no need for the condescension.

And maybe take your own advice
 
BigRedBuster said:
What pisses me off is so much of the money spent was for no other purpose than to impress 18-24 year old kids. It has absolutely nothing to do with making them a better football player. Literally millions just for that purpose. When you think about it, that’s messed up. Then, that facility was built for a roster of 140-150. Now, we will have a roster of 105 eventually. More wasted money because it could have been smaller.

But, that’s the world we live in.
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What are talking about? A large percentage of that facility was built around training and recovery. It also has the athletes dining hall and all of the meeting/film rooms.
 
caveman99 said:
What are talking about? A large percentage of that facility was built around training and recovery. It also has the athletes dining hall and all of the meeting/film rooms.
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Well, the size of the facility for a 140 - 150 man roster is self explanatory. But, we didn't know the change to 105 was going to happen when it was built.

But to the rest of it. Other facilities have hot tubs and cold tubs...etc. It simply the grandiose scale of it all. We could have easily put in hot tubs, etc...for less money. But, it's built to do recovery....plus impress 18-24 year old kids. Then, you put on top of that, the movie theater, golf simulator.....etc. And, it adds up to one hell of a lot of money that was spent that doesn't make the player any better than doing it less expesively.
 
BigRedBuster said:
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So when do we get coaches that will actually develop the players and make them winners. We've spent a lot of money on 'things' including media, podcasts, the facilities - all of the things on the outside edge and yet we have a product on the field that fails the test. I understand that to compete with the big boys, you have to spend like them, but you also have to coach like them as well and develop that hard nose winning attitude.
 
TGHusker said:
So when do we get coaches that will actually develop the players and make them winners. We've spent a lot of money on 'things' including media, podcasts, the facilities - all of the things on the outside edge and yet we have a product on the field that fails the test. I understand that to compete with the big boys, you have to spend like them, but you also have to coach like them as well and develop that hard nose winning attitude.
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fwiw...i actually think a few of the new coaches look like they have proven to be good at developing talent at their former jobs. Rhule might have got it right this time
 
commando said:
fwiw...i actually think a few of the new coaches look like they have proven to be good at developing talent at their former jobs. Rhule might have got it right this time
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I hope so. I just can't drink the off season kool-aide any longer. I have to be a Missourian at this point - I'll believe it when I see it.
 
Here's just a comparison. The football facility cost $165 million for 315,000 square feet. Remember, that could have been smaller for a roster of 105. That's $523 per square foot. The new business college was $84 million for 240,000 square feet. That's $350 per square foot. Yes, there's some inflation in those numbers. But....Doing the football facility for even $400 per square foot would have saved about $40 million at the same size.
 
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