Football Only Facility

[Charleston Tiger 134]

Greene just confirmed that Gus has already met with him and hit him up for a football-only facility. Greene confirmed that's first on his docket. Excited they all see what's sorely needed and hope that we do like other schools have and get the trophies/balls/etc. front and center. Should see that gear right off the bat!

[Mr.Gump 10]

That'd be nice.

[auburnphan 6,050]

It really has to happen and we will see if those who said that they will, will be very generous.   

[AU64 10,122]

5 minutes ago, auburnphan said:

It really has to happen and we will see if those who said that they will, will be very generous.   

Yep we keep  being told that there are tens of millions of dollars out there just waiting to be donated to the athletic department soon as JJ is gone....so guess now is when we will find out the truth of that assertion. 

[bigbird 60,453]

Gus was told the same thing by JJ when he was first hired as HC

[auburnphan 6,050]

1 hour ago, bigbird said:

Gus was told the same thing by JJ when he was first hired as HC

When I was in k-12, I was one of those kids who was never very good in art class.  Knowing that I was not gonna be an artist my parents stopped investing much in art supplies for me.   Now replace me with JJ, art with building projects, my parents for donators and art supplies for cash.    

I seriously think if given 100 plans for a project, JJ would pick the one with sparkles on the cover because he likes sparkles.

I get the feel that Greene is gonna understand the needs and value in doing things right for the University and the student athlete.   

[logan adams 333]

Hopefully he sees the need for advancement on the stadium as well. 

[Zeek 16,640]

16 hours ago, logan adams said:

Hopefully he sees the need for advancement on the stadium as well. 

So long as it doesn't also drive up ticket prices 

[AUGoo 2,659]

I'm not clear what a FB only facility is. I would call what they are in now that.

[Zeek 16,640]

4 hours ago, AUGoo said:

I'm not clear what a FB only facility is. I would call what they are in now that.

Same here, I have an idea but I'd like to know more

[AUBwins 10,071]

Here are a couple of other schools that have football only facilities.  I can see reasons kids can be persuaded to go to the dark side.  What a recruiting tool!

https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2013/8/1/4578810/alabama-football-building-pictures

https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2013/7/31/4574556/oregon-football-building-new

[Gowebb11 9,313]

I hope we get a football only facility but Leath is right. That's an arms race bubble that is bound to burst at some point in the not too distant future. 

[AUGoo 2,659]

Is that not what they have now?

 Is it just time to update the practicefacility/training/weight/locker rooms and call it a FB only facility?

Is that what this is about?

[doc4aday 1,887]

How many SEC teams have a football only facility?  My guess would be the following:

1. bammer

2. UGA

3. Florida

4. LSU??

5. TAMU

 

Could be more, could be less.  Just think, if JJ had not been so persistent over that over sized display monitor and used part of that money to help pay for a football only facility, this conversation would not be happening.

[Zeek 16,640]

39 minutes ago, AUBwins said:

Here are a couple of other schools that have football only facilities.  I can see reasons kids can be persuaded to go to the dark side.  What a recruiting tool!

https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2013/8/1/4578810/alabama-football-building-pictures

https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2013/7/31/4574556/oregon-football-building-new

Holy poop we need to step our game up

[WFE12 9,191]

1 hour ago, AUBwins said:

Here are a couple of other schools that have football only facilities.  I can see reasons kids can be persuaded to go to the dark side.  What a recruiting tool!

https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2013/8/1/4578810/alabama-football-building-pictures

https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2013/7/31/4574556/oregon-football-building-new

Hydrotherapy? Anti-gravity treadmill? I wonder how ours would be...

[GwillMac6 20,661]

2 hours ago, AUGoo said:

Is that not what they have now?

 Is it just time to update the practicefacility/training/weight/locker rooms and call it a FB only facility?

Is that what this is about?

The complex houses the Auburn Athletics business office, communications staff, compliance, development, digital media, equipment management, graphic design, IT, marketing and operations in addition to upper level department administration. Not even close to football only. It was built in 1989. We are a top tier program. We should not be putting off obvious upgrades at a premiere athletic university which is what we are. It is long overdue. For goodness sakes clemson of all teams beat us to it. CLEMSON!!! 

[GwillMac6 20,661]

2 hours ago, Gowebb11 said:

I hope we get a football only facility but Leath is right. That's an arms race bubble that is bound to burst at some point in the not too distant future. 

Honestly that just screams of making a excuse to keep putting it off EVEN LONGER. Which is absolutely the wrong decision. 

[doc4aday 1,887]

4 hours ago, Zeek said:

Same here, I have an idea but I'd like to know more

Think of it like this.......

1. You go to your local mall and see the food court with 5 or 6 restaurants within designated area for a food court with lets say 1. Burger King 2. Pizza Hut 3. Arby's, etc.

2. Take lets say Burger King........ as a stand alone restaurant not in a food court.

3. The way we are now is the food court concept with each restaurant representing various sports.

4. IF we have a football only facility, it is much like a Burger king restaurant by itself in its own building not shared by other sports or other restaurants!

 

I am getting tired and not thinking as clearly as the Doc is used to doing. This idea struck me as I am eating a Whopper and onion rings for a late dinner. Thus my inspiration for this analogy!

[abw0004 10,109]

The only place I can think of putting it is either tear down and rebuild the current building or the old ACT.  There isn’t too much space over there if you want to stay close to the indoor field. 

[doc4aday 1,887]

7 minutes ago, abw0004 said:

The only place I can think of putting it is either tear down and rebuild the current building or the old ACT.  There isn’t too much space over there if you want to stay close to the indoor field. 

I think the old ACT would be a better option logistic wise. You could freshen up the current facilities and let it remain a sports facility without any football operations.

[logan adams 333]

3 hours ago, doc4aday said:

How many SEC teams have a football only facility?  My guess would be the following:

1. bammer

2. UGA

3. Florida

4. LSU??

5. TAMU

 

Could be more, could be less.  Just think, if JJ had not been so persistent over that over sized display monitor and used part of that money to help pay for a football only facility, this conversation would not be happening.

The screen was an upgrade to the stadium, which was a must. 

[wildlife alumni 304]

1 hour ago, abw0004 said:

The only place I can think of putting it is either tear down and rebuild the current building or the old ACT.  There isn’t too much space over there if you want to stay close to the indoor field. 

The old track is to the west of the current practice fields. I would think that would be plenty of room. I parked on it a few months ago. I was thinking they would have built something there by now. It has not been used since before I was in college, over ten years ago.

[Auhud08 596]

Heres the solution-

tear down old facilty- move all athletics to coliseum while construction of football only facilty begins on previous site. Once completed, tear down old coliseum- move other athletics elswhere (hopefully even more individual facilities)- build parking decks and a new “athletics facilty (again, could be smaller is say baseball and basketball get their own facilities)

[AUGoo 2,659]

On January 21, 2018 at 6:41 PM, GwillMac6 said:

The complex houses the Auburn Athletics business office, communications staff, compliance, development, digital media, equipment management, graphic design, IT, marketing and operations in addition to upper level department administration. Not even close to football only. It was built in 1989. We are a top tier program. We should not be putting off obvious upgrades at a premiere athletic university which is what we are. It is long overdue. For goodness sakes clemson of all teams beat us to it. CLEMSON!!! 

Was what I was looking for.

i get you now 

Thanks