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This is why you do it. If you don't do it, you get left behind.
Why does that position belong to Florida? They had two great decades (90s and 00s) thanks to Spurrier and Meyer. That’s about it. Rest of their history is pedestrian.
well before Spurrier there wasn’t an East. However, when the East became a thing they did a solid job in dominating it. Mullen is the next great there.
Pretty much looks on par with ours.
It's absolutely absurd how much of an arms race college football has turned into. There's not much "amateur" about amateur athletics anymore.
It's absolutely absurd how much of an arms race college football has turned into. There's not much "amateur" about amateur athletics anymore.
If you're going to be in the game, you have to have to have the infrastructure. If we do, and if it's not working out for us, then we have to look at the human element.
Agree with that. But the people in charge are more interested in the accouterments and their egos. They look at the facilities, beam with pride and talk about what they've created. The human element is irrelevant until the donations start drying up.
Looks about on par with the rest of the facilities in the conference. Nothing earth shattering nor groundbreaking. In the end what will matter is whether Mullen is able to put a product on the field that is attractive to local/regional talent. If so, they will be sitting pretty with both FSU and Miami down. If not, the facilities won't amount to a hill of beans.
Ding ding ding we have a winner. You are right. Its in line with what we and other schools now have. It’s simply about 18 months newer. But hey, it does give most fgf posters something else to bitch about. lol ke we don’t have enough on field issues. Facilities aren’t one of our problems.
I think a lot of us suggested the water park, lazy river, pool type thing. That’s how you wow who you’re trying to wow. Not to mention it’s only about 300 degrees in Columbia from 5/15 to 9-15, so pools and SC go together better than PB&J.
They do have the pool at the new dorms where our guys live...guess that counts for something.Listen I'm all in for the extras but what we have is great and on par with what others have.The playing field is even on facilities, all about wins n losses.Starts on the field.When FSU builds theirs I'm sure they will have something to top UF's ...a neverending arms race that you'll go broke trying to stay ahead of every ones new toy.Just win.
This is the point that everyone is missing. Of course it's impressive, but it's also a vulgar display of warped priorities.
Schools spend hundreds of millions on facilities for athletes, and boosters gladly pay it, at a time when average students are suffocating in college loan debt. We've built the most inefficient model for delivering higher education you can possibly imagine with these sprawling campuses and lavish facilities. In a digital age, how in the world did we manage to make obtaining a college degree so capital-intensive? It's a borderline insane misallocation of resources.
Meanwhile, we have coaching salaries of $4-9 million a year (often 5 times what the University President makes), programs are bending over backwards to keep players eligible with excessive academic help and jock majors, as well as sweeping criminal behavior under the rug if necessary, and they will spare no expense to impress recruits with pools, barber shops, bowling alleys, and recording studios. We've even got shoe companies offering basketball recruits bribes to steer them to a Nike, Adidas, or Under Armor school. The player's choose their college based on football or basketball, not academics, and their schedule monopolizes most of their college life. Think of all the guys in the transfer portal based on playing time, all the players that will skip their senior season and go pro early, or who will skip bowl games so they don't risk injury, etc. We routinely see one-and-done basketball players who don't even register for class in the spring semester, yet continue to play and audition for the NBA.
It's getting pretty silly to pretend this is amateur athletics. As Cardale Jones sadly, yet accurately, stated, recruits "aint come here to play school."
Guys that leave college baseball and have to live the life of a minor leaguer are in for huge changes.
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