I guess that's what I'm curious about. I don't expect us to ever compete with the factories, but amoungst FBS and P5 schools, where do we fall and what is needed? I know you've mentioned access to quality food and nutritionists. Are we behind peer schools with S&C equipment/facilities, rehab facilities/staff, academic support, player lounge/furniture, fun extras like TVs, video games, putting greens, indoor electric go cart racetracks, etc.
He chose SU because of Daoust and Bullough. Would bet my kidneys that the reason DeVito, Pierce, Sampson, and White committed are Babers and his staff. Trust me when I say it wasn't because of the facilities.
Mike Hopkins school has something cool on the water.
I am. Look at the context of the conversation. We're talking about Clemson's over the top facility. You asked why we have a program then. The implication is that we shouldn't have a program if we can't spend money like Clemson.
I understand the status of our facilities just fine. I even respect you having an opinion about it. What I don't respect is the dickish manner with which you express it. I purposely responded in a dickish manner.
Wow. Does SU really lack a conference room for team meetings like that or was that meant to illustrate that the player lounges are similar?
Yeah. I just looked at some pics of Stanford's too. Other than dressup stuff, they weren't that different. The rows were actually closer together than SU's. It had a nice drop ceiling, but that versus the exposed industrial style is more about personal preference. If the player lounge is similar to Jackson St like bcub said, that certainly needs an upgrade along with the functional stuff you mentioned.
They're similar.
You summed that up for me perfectly.
I agree with this post, but on the donor front, SU seems to frustrate its graduates. I am not entirely sure why, maybe it's as simple as the high tuition historically but when you combine that with athletic spending, or Dome renovation, alumni tend to think about spending money so local residents can have a better seat, or scholarship athletes can play more x-box while there is little to no spending on academic facilities or better educators, creating devaluation of the degree they spent so much on, you can see some of the challenges with fund raising. Now make that worse by having a previous administration that literally had a negative impact on the ratings while spending to improve Centro routes and downtown warehouses, you have a steep hill to climb.
No I haven't been in there but I can tell quality furniture. Zoom in on the lockers they are mostly plywood. You can see the edge banding. But yeah clearly I just make stuff up
Ordinarily I wouldn't but this one was too good to pass up. Didn't expect you to be so sensitive.
Well unless they decided to put an edge banding on for the heck of it then it's plywood. Looks to me like a cabinet grade plywood or Syracuse somehow found the widest boards in existence. There aren't any seams where boards were joined together to make them wider. The bases maybe but I don't see anything on the walls. I'm not saying they are bad just not very high end. I build cabinets and furniture as a hobby so i know what to look for.
Yeah they aren't horrible but the build lacks the wow. I get the fact these aren't the main locker rooms but I think we need every advantage we can get and this just isn't the wow we need. These builds should have us complaining they spent too much not man these would have been great ten years ago. I just hope this was a stop gap for the remodel or new stadium
Yeah, in retrospect, I was being a douche.
No problem. All is well and I do respect your insightful comments.
