Compared to ours, Purdue's complex is just unbelievable. Our players will have to take shifts to use it it's so small!
Damn.
Our new football "complex" looks like a Holiday Inn
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Compared to ours, Purdue's complex is just unbelievable. Our players will have to take shifts to use it it's so small!
Damn.
IUs complex looks as weak as their non-conference schedule
Yeah 25,000 sqft sounds big... until you realize Purdue’s comes in at 114,000 sqft
The old "mines bigger"...…..
Just show it on the field with wins and keep the bucket and forget the rest!
Boiler Up!
Just show it on the field with wins and keep the bucket and forget the rest!
Boiler Up!
To a certain extent, recruiting involves impressing candidates sought by other schools. A modern complex is a part of that. The W/Ls are also a part. They go hand-in-hand. Each feeds the other. More wins = more alumni bucks = better complex = better recruits and staff = more wins.
Big time college athletics is definitely an arms race. You have to pay to play whether you like it or not. And if you're serious about your program being a contender (Purdue's commitment to football) compared to just doing some mediocre upgrades because everyone else is, then it shows (iu for example).
To be fair some of that difference is trophy case and permanent display for the bucket. Not really functional space.
I don't like it, but I will never complain about the arms race again. We've seen the alternative. Taking the "moral high ground" and attempting to put athletics in its proper place, hoping others will see your virtue and join hand-in-hand with a universal voluntary disarmament, only puts your program in shambles. If there is change to be made to scale things back it is going to have to be forced from the top.
According to the press release it includes an entrance ('recruiting area'), team locker room, players lounge, training room, and coaches locker room. The picture up top of the locker room is maybe 1/3 of the overall locker room? The other side here
Almost as nice as our visitor locker room. Just ask Harbaugh.
According to the press release it includes an entrance ('recruiting area'), team locker room, players lounge, training room, and coaches locker room. The picture up top of the locker room is maybe 1/3 of the overall locker room? The other side here
Any insight as to whether you guys will have a football only building?
Best guess is that ship has sailed. All of the new facilities are either connected to, in or under Memorial Stadium. So it's too late to build a separate stand alone facility.
There are many that disagree with me on the IU boards, but my view is that the only differences between what IU now has, and what it's peer B1G competitors have, is (i) the lack of a stand alone football building, and (ii) the shared nature of the weight room.
That the building isn't a stand alone building is less important than the fact that IU has all of the same bells and whistles and that they're all part of the complex at Memorial Stadium. That goes for the weight room too which overlooks one of the end zones. I have a hard time believing that a recruit would look at IU's enormous weight room and the views of the stadium, and be bothered that sometimes there will be volleyball and softball players there as well. To me, that there might be coeds around at times would not be a problem.
AND...!.... Harbaugh wants to know if you have x-ray, so when he grabs his injured QB and drags his @ss off the field, he can quickly determine if there's a spinal injury.
With the continued investment to football facilities inside the stadium, the only way that happens is if they actually build a facility for the other sports and kick them out of the currently-shared facilities in the stadium which would then become football only.
AC AND and X-Ray machine.
Man, that IU complex is fuuuuugly! The only thing that looks half ass decent are the Black chairs.....
Almost as nice as our visitor locker room. Just ask Harbaugh.
If we can’t use pink how about buying all the return paint cans at Lowes and Home Depot for a graffiti look. Add red speckles on the floor and an outline of a body.
"I have a hard time believing that a recruit would look at IU's enormous weight room and the views of the stadium..........."
Who wants to work out looking at the stadium full of geese crapping everywhere - knowing you will soon be playing in that crap on Saturday and there isn't enough interest in your team to bother cleaning the bleachers - beyond row 10.
Who wants to work out looking at the stadium full of geese crapping everywhere - knowing you will soon be playing in that crap on Saturday and there isn't enough interest in your team to bother cleaning the bleachers - beyond row 10.
To be fair, these facilities are not exactly identical in what they include.
I don't know the ins and outs of both, but I don't think IU's was built to be compared to Purdue's.
For example: Purdue's included a strength and conditioning center. IU's does not. Why? This building is built within the stadium and IU recently added on in a renovation a few years ago - which included a strength and conditioning center.
Another example: This IU facility is not for coaches offices, which Purdue's does include
It doesn't mean IU's or Purdue's are better with this or that, but these are not really comparable apples to apples.
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