Inside the locker room...

[boilershrimpfarmer]

This is my first post, so apologies for any errors. To give some background I was a student manager for parts of the Colletto and Tiller eras. I know it's been a while, but I suspect most of the visiting locker rooms have not changed all that much since I was in school.

Michigan's locker room was so so. Basically had enough lockers for the visiting team. MSU we had to double up lockers. Also, there was just a row of toilets. No dividers or doors. Wisconsin's was on the second level of the stadium. We would toss the equipment bags out the window to a cart below so they could be loaded on the truck. I remember standing in a foot of water in the showers at OSU because the drains were clogged. IU and Illinois had two of the best locker rooms because they had plenty of space
The worst part about Iowa was not the pink, but the long walk down the stairs to get to the field. I could go on, but leave it at that for now.

 

[bone tomahawk]

This is my first post, so apologies for any errors. To give some background I was a student manager for parts of the Colletto and Tiller eras. I know it's been a while, but I suspect most of the visiting locker rooms have not changed all that much since I was in school.

Michigan's locker room was so so. Basically had enough lockers for the visiting team. MSU we had to double up lockers. Also, there was just a row of toilets. No dividers or doors. Wisconsin's was on the second level of the stadium. We would toss the equipment bags out the window to a cart below so they could be loaded on the truck. I remember standing in a foot of water in the showers at OSU because the drains were clogged. IU and Illinois had two of the best locker rooms because they had plenty of space
The worst part about Iowa was not the pink, but the long walk down the stairs to get to the field. I could go on, but leave it at that for now.

whats your point? harbaugh mentioned that there could be improvements all through the big10. and that he would start with michigans. remember he hasn`t been to purdue in over 30 years.

 

[boilershrimpfarmer]

My point was to give a first hand account of facilities as I saw them. There's been a lot of speculation about other visiting locker rooms. Just trying to be informative as I could.

 

[boilersallthewaynow]

My point was to give a first hand account of facilities as I saw them. There's been a lot of speculation about other visiting locker rooms. Just trying to be informative as I could.

Thanks for the perspective

 

[TheBoris]

boilershrimpfarmer, do you farm shrimp or are you a very small farmer?

 

[BoilerBonz]

I think his point is, how is it that everyone else in the B1G has lived through these apparently atrocious conditions for years, all across the conference, but somehow we didn't hear a pep about this, from anyone, at all, until Jimmy the $7M-whiner came to the B1G and let us all know that UM's snowflakes expect to be treated better than anyone else has been before.

How did UM's players survive H.S. football? Did they have better facilities then, than the BIG's visiting lockers?

Here's an idea: how about Harbaugh does something about UM's visitor lockers first, before he opens his big trap and starts lecturing the rest of the conference, since actions than words, then maybe the rest of conference would take him seriously!

 

[boilershrimpfarmer]

Ha. I am a shrimp farmer. In Indiana as a matter of fact.

 

[Onaway]

I would guess the bottom line on every athletic department's budget is visitor's locker room.

Fix the leaking pipe, make sure they have TP (the cheapest we can find), and mop it a few times a year.

My neighbor was a b-ball manager at Ball State and said the iu visitor's locker room is about the size of a one car garage. It had a couple of showers in the corner and they didn't have enough room to put up a table for drinks and snacks.
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[TheBoris]

Ha. I am a shrimp farmer. In Indiana as a matter of fact.

That is very interesting. I thought all of the marine aquaculture was near salt water. Are you shrimp or crawfish?

 

[boilershrimpfarmer]

That is very interesting. I thought all of the marine aquaculture was near salt water. Are you shrimp or crawfish?

We raise saltwater shrimp in swimming pools, inside a pole barn.

 

[Purdue85]

whats your point? harbaugh mentioned that there could be improvements all through the big10. and that he would start with michigans. remember he hasn`t been to purdue in over 30 years.

OMG!

Someone get a tissue! Harbaugh hasn't been to Purdue in a long, long time!

He didn't know!

good, grief, girlfriend. You're nothing but drama.

If I was Brohm, next time you dumbasses visit i'd have a case of tampons ready for you.

 

[stout1]

We raise saltwater shrimp in swimming pools, inside a pole barn.

I know some folks who raise freshwater shrimp in ponds in Indiana as well.

Were you on NPR in the last year or so?

 

[boilershrimpfarmer]

I know some folks who raise freshwater shrimp in ponds in Indiana as well.

Were you on NPR in the last year or so?

We have been running a sponsorship here in Muncie. If it was a news story it was probably my supplier, RDM. They're located outside of Fowler. They're Purdue grads also.

 

[stout1]

We have been running a sponsorship here in Muncie. If it was a news story it was probably my supplier, RDM. They're located outside of Fowler. They're Purdue grads also.

That sounds right.