B1G Facilities Arms Race

[Landlord]

"Quite frankly if we aren't making updates/upgrades every couple of years I'd be worried..."

No need to worry because they are doing that all the time.

 

[Red Five]

Clemson just opened new facility this winter.

Gotta do something with all that TV money since they can't pay the players.

Spoiler

Beyond are the coaches’ offices, meetings rooms, recruiting lounge, recruiting war room and theater. Swinney’s suite includes a 600-square foot office with floor to ceiling windows that overlook the practice fields and a picturesque view of Death Valley. A door opens to a patio that runs the length of the building past the other coaches’ offices. On the opposite wall is the door to Swinney’s personal area, including a private entrance to the building, dressing area and bathroom.

Back downstairs either by steps, a replica of The Hill with a cast-iron Howard’s Rock or down a slide to the locker room with custom-designed cubicles in rich elegant, wood. A place for anything and everything,including separate cabinets for helmets, shoulder pads, shoes and clothing plus a key-coded compartment for valuables.

Adjacent are a sauna, a cold tub with seats for 60 and a cleat drying room.

The weight room is ginormous with space for roughly 50 percent more equipment than the WestZone site, complete with a cardio balcony and nutrition bar. The largest in the country, Turnipseed said, trumping Alabama’s, which served as his inspiration.

Next to the spacious equipment room is an exhibit with current uniforms mannequins and a place for fans to snap a picture at a faux locker.

A sprawling training room includes a lap pool and four hydrotherapy pools.

The players’ lounge includes pool tables, ping-pong, video games and televisions viewable from every angle, a virtual reality room and golf simulator, barber shop, personal laundry and nap room with bunks supported by 4x4 steel beams, bean bags and an aquarium.

The dining room is a massive but welcoming area with huge windows, and the kitchen might be the best on campus with stations for everything from salads to baked goods, prepared on site and served to enormous appetites.

Finally, there’s the piece de resistance of fun – the Players’ Village.

At a cost of about $1.5 million, the village probably provides more bang for the buck than anything on the site, Turnipseed said. The anchor will be what the HGTV folks call a “water feature,” a wall roughly 12 feet high and wide in purple and orange mosaic with a raised white Tiger Paw that will be lit at night by floods from a wading pool, the safer option to a swimming pool.

The wall faces a football-shaped village green with outdoor lighting and comfortable lawn furniture. A 20-foot screen can be wheeled into place for watching games or movies. There are two covered areas, one with couches large enough for naps and another with more tables and chairs. If players want to cook a burger or pizza, they can fire one of two large gas grills.

Also dominant in the village is a covered full-sized basketball court (where Swinney might be found on occasion). There is a nine-hole miniature golf course, a horseshoe pit, a beach volleyball dune and a layout for Wiffle Ball that backs up to the moat which will surely become a target for the big hitters.

 

[seaofred92]

Clemson just opened new facility this winter.

Gotta do something with all that TV money since they can't pay the players.

Spoiler

Beyond are the coaches’ offices, meetings rooms, recruiting lounge, recruiting war room and theater. Swinney’s suite includes a 600-square foot office with floor to ceiling windows that overlook the practice fields and a picturesque view of Death Valley. A door opens to a patio that runs the length of the building past the other coaches’ offices. On the opposite wall is the door to Swinney’s personal area, including a private entrance to the building, dressing area and bathroom.

Back downstairs either by steps, a replica of The Hill with a cast-iron Howard’s Rock or down a slide to the locker room with custom-designed cubicles in rich elegant, wood. A place for anything and everything,including separate cabinets for helmets, shoulder pads, shoes and clothing plus a key-coded compartment for valuables.

Adjacent are a sauna, a cold tub with seats for 60 and a cleat drying room.

The weight room is ginormous with space for roughly 50 percent more equipment than the WestZone site, complete with a cardio balcony and nutrition bar. The largest in the country, Turnipseed said, trumping Alabama’s, which served as his inspiration.

Next to the spacious equipment room is an exhibit with current uniforms mannequins and a place for fans to snap a picture at a faux locker.

A sprawling training room includes a lap pool and four hydrotherapy pools.

The players’ lounge includes pool tables, ping-pong, video games and televisions viewable from every angle, a virtual reality room and golf simulator, barber shop, personal laundry and nap room with bunks supported by 4x4 steel beams, bean bags and an aquarium.

The dining room is a massive but welcoming area with huge windows, and the kitchen might be the best on campus with stations for everything from salads to baked goods, prepared on site and served to enormous appetites.

Finally, there’s the piece de resistance of fun – the Players’ Village.

At a cost of about $1.5 million, the village probably provides more bang for the buck than anything on the site, Turnipseed said. The anchor will be what the HGTV folks call a “water feature,” a wall roughly 12 feet high and wide in purple and orange mosaic with a raised white Tiger Paw that will be lit at night by floods from a wading pool, the safer option to a swimming pool.

The wall faces a football-shaped village green with outdoor lighting and comfortable lawn furniture. A 20-foot screen can be wheeled into place for watching games or movies. There are two covered areas, one with couches large enough for naps and another with more tables and chairs. If players want to cook a burger or pizza, they can fire one of two large gas grills.

Also dominant in the village is a covered full-sized basketball court (where Swinney might be found on occasion). There is a nine-hole miniature golf course, a horseshoe pit, a beach volleyball dune and a layout for Wiffle Ball that backs up to the moat which will surely become a target for the big hitters.

yup. we could easily match/exceed this. but lets sit here and talk about how our facilities are great and all that is unnecessary

 

[BigRedBuster]

nobody is saying Nebraska's facilities aren't nice. I toured them last year and they're great.

But why not modernize/update them? Why not build them to be the best they can be? Put in a barber shop and hire a team barber. Put in rooms with the large glass windows with views of the city or of the practice fields. Put in lounges with areas for the media to work and specific media/interview rooms. From Oregon's facility: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2013/08/01/outrageously-unique-amenities-in-oregons-new-football-facility-hatfield-dowlin-complex/2606223/

The Hatfield-Dowlin Complex has many, many lounges. It even has one for the media. Like an amazingly high percentage of rooms in the building, this one on the third level has a pantry, Italian furnishings, and lots of walnut. It also is attached to the press conference room, which has "wallpaper" made of Nike football leather, and chairs upholstered with the same leather found in a Ferrari. One note about the walnut: Interior designer Randy Stegmeier of Portland's Firm151 said the rejection rate for the walnut was 96 percent, meaning that out of every 100 boards available, only an average of four were deemed to be of high enough quality for this project. The remainder was kept by the provider for other work.

Recruiting and film rooms:

The "War Room", in the center of a restricted section of the fourth floor called "Area 51", is accessible by less than 40 people within the program. The room, primarily used for recruiting analysis and final game preparations, is surrounded by black-backed glass that is writable and magnetic, is embedded with televisions and touchscreens, and all equipment can be hidden in barely visible cabinets. Its centerpiece is a 35-foot-long table with 22 chairs, each positioned directly under a light. This was one of the rooms that was built more than once.

The above will continue to grow more and more important as Nebraska continues to add more support staff and more "consultants" to the program.

Nebraska is set to make over $50m in revenue this year. I don't know what portion of that is profit but I would guess you would be able to build a hell of a facility and have it paid off rather quickly, especially if you can garner a large donation or two. Quite frankly if we aren't making updates/upgrades every couple of years I'd be worried since it seems every other year someone is building a new facility. Always strive to improve in every aspect of the program.

What makes you think we aren't updating our facilities regularly?

 

[seaofred92]

"Quite frankly if we aren't making updates/upgrades every couple of years I'd be worried..."

No need to worry because they are doing that all the time.

nobody is saying Nebraska's facilities aren't nice. I toured them last year and they're great.

But why not modernize/update them? Why not build them to be the best they can be? Put in a barber shop and hire a team barber. Put in rooms with the large glass windows with views of the city or of the practice fields. Put in lounges with areas for the media to work and specific media/interview rooms. From Oregon's facility: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2013/08/01/outrageously-unique-amenities-in-oregons-new-football-facility-hatfield-dowlin-complex/2606223/

The Hatfield-Dowlin Complex has many, many lounges. It even has one for the media. Like an amazingly high percentage of rooms in the building, this one on the third level has a pantry, Italian furnishings, and lots of walnut. It also is attached to the press conference room, which has "wallpaper" made of Nike football leather, and chairs upholstered with the same leather found in a Ferrari. One note about the walnut: Interior designer Randy Stegmeier of Portland's Firm151 said the rejection rate for the walnut was 96 percent, meaning that out of every 100 boards available, only an average of four were deemed to be of high enough quality for this project. The remainder was kept by the provider for other work.

Recruiting and film rooms:

The "War Room", in the center of a restricted section of the fourth floor called "Area 51", is accessible by less than 40 people within the program. The room, primarily used for recruiting analysis and final game preparations, is surrounded by black-backed glass that is writable and magnetic, is embedded with televisions and touchscreens, and all equipment can be hidden in barely visible cabinets. Its centerpiece is a 35-foot-long table with 22 chairs, each positioned directly under a light. This was one of the rooms that was built more than once.

The above will continue to grow more and more important as Nebraska continues to add more support staff and more "consultants" to the program.

Nebraska is set to make over $50m in revenue this year. I don't know what portion of that is profit but I would guess you would be able to build a hell of a facility and have it paid off rather quickly, especially if you can garner a large donation or two. Quite frankly if we aren't making updates/upgrades every couple of years I'd be worried since it seems every other year someone is building a new facility. Always strive to improve in every aspect of the program.

What makes you think we aren't updating our facilities regularly?

They do small maintenance updates all the time I know. The new touches to the indoor practice facility with the banners and new items were overdue and are a nice touch to the facility.

I do feel there is room to improve our facilities tremendously though. If a team like Clemson has a basketball court, mini golf course, batting cage, etc its just that much harder to compete against them in recruiting. Despite the fact that I personally think its ridiculous to spend tens or hundreds of millions of dollars on this stuff, if other teams are going to continue to move towards these things then we need to as well. Hell UCF just announced plans for a lazy river at their facility.

 

[Scratchtown]

Where are you going to put it/finish it without being in the way of the current facility.

Space is an issue. Like someone said. It just needs modernized. That's it.

Nebraska is the newspaper and other programs are the internet or other tech.

 

[Landlord]

batting cages and mini golf are only fun if you're A) Under the age of 13 or B ) Drinking alcohol. It might impress a recruit for 10 minutes but it's not an integral part of the arms race by the wildest stretches of imagination.

 

[Mary Pats BOB]

Where are you going to put it/finish it without being in the way of the current facility.

Space is an issue. Like someone said. It just needs modernized. That's it.

Nebraska is the newspaper and other programs are the internet or other tech.

That's nonsense Dude and you know it. Our woods not as fancy. That's it. Trophy case is still more expansive than Oregon will ever need

 

[MyBloodIsRed16]

Where are you going to put it/finish it without being in the way of the current facility.

Space is an issue. Like someone said. It just needs modernized. That's it.

Nebraska is the newspaper and other programs are the internet or other tech.

That's nonsense Dude and you know it. Our woods not as fancy. That's it. Trophy case is still more expansive than Oregon will ever need

I think the wood is fancy

 

[jaws]

Where are you going to put it/finish it without being in the way of the current facility.

Space is an issue. Like someone said. It just needs modernized. That's it.

Nebraska is the newspaper and other programs are the internet or other tech.

That's nonsense Dude and you know it. Our woods not as fancy. That's it. Trophy case is still more expansive than Oregon will ever need

I think the wood is fancy

The wood is fancy but maybe the trophy case is more expansive than what Nebraska needs as well since they haven't added anything to it in the last 20 years.

 

[ZRod]

Where are you going to put it/finish it without being in the way of the current facility.

Space is an issue. Like someone said. It just needs modernized. That's it.

Nebraska is the newspaper and other programs are the internet or other tech.

That's nonsense Dude and you know it. Our woods not as fancy. That's it. Trophy case is still more expansive than Oregon will ever need

I think the wood is fancy

The wood is fancy but maybe the trophy case is more expansive than what Nebraska needs as well since they haven't added anything to it in the last 20 years.

 

[Saunders]

Nebraska is the newspaper and other programs are the internet or other tech.

 

[HuskerNBigD]

Where are you going to put it/finish it without being in the way of the current facility.

Space is an issue. Like someone said. It just needs modernized. That's it.

Nebraska is the newspaper and other programs are the internet or other tech.

That's nonsense Dude and you know it. Our woods not as fancy. That's it. Trophy case is still more expansive than Oregon will ever need

Still living in the 90s, I see.

 

[Mary Pats BOB]

Where are you going to put it/finish it without being in the way of the current facility.

Space is an issue. Like someone said. It just needs modernized. That's it.

Nebraska is the newspaper and other programs are the internet or other tech.

That's nonsense Dude and you know it. Our woods not as fancy. That's it. Trophy case is still more expansive than Oregon will ever need

Still living in the 90s, I see.

Hey they gave trophies for winning the B12 North😉