Purdue Now Has Air Conditioning in Visitors Locker Room
Purdue is finally upgrading their antiquated and run-down visitor locker room (it sounds like they did some improvements as the season progressed). It sucks that it took publicly calling them out to get things changed and that Michigan had to suffer through miserable and dangerous conditions.
Reading until the end of the piece, it may be that they used some beer sale money ("Boiler Gold") to pay for the obvious (they never noticed that central Indiana can be hot in September?). Yay I guess?
It sucks that Michigan took all the crap for calling out substandard facilities. You'd think Purdue would've suffered from some poor PR, but I don't see that they did. The national media sure jumped on Harbaugh for complaining about it, though. Thank God Michigan won that game - had he complained about shitty facilities and medical care after a loss...
Our QB had a serious neck injury (on a dirty hut nonetheless) and he had to wait in traffic to get medical attention. The fact that it didn't generate the negative PR it should have never made much sense to me.
It's the same reason that nobody really cares about MSU. Both schools are pretty regional and not that popular outside of their regions.
Just like my pappy always said, "if you're going to get a neck injury, never, and I mean never, get one on a dirty hut. You want a clean hut I tell ya!"
I don't know, I would be cautious entering some huts...
I actually agree with your thought but how 'bout some sentence construction. Thanks!
Which, while a lesser separate issue, is a symptom of how the media rewards a winning morality.
Cool. Literally.
I believe this belongs in the "Smart Home" thread...
/s
But will Jeff Brohm still be destroying chairs in the name of contrived pregame speeches?
And will Tim Brando still be complaining about Jim Harbaugh not giving him an updated depth chart?
I'd go with punching a hole in a dry-erase board. Maybe throw a bunch of helmets into the shower while everyone hopes everyone keeps their mouth shut. You know, typical coach bullshit.
They flipped the locker room but the team will flop.
The Engineering students at Purdue outdid themselves on helping solve the problem, understanding that the athletic department budget at Purdue is not in great shape...
Anyone have 4 tickets for the game against Nebraska?
You're going to want to start a thread.
What cracked me up during the whole fiasco was a couple of Boilermaker fans on Reddit constantly arguing that Purdue didn't have the money and that they never expected it to be hot. Mind you, Purdue gets something like $30MM a year from their Big 10 deal alone, and only field 18 varsity sports, which is one of the lower totals in the conference. So they should have the resources to do so, but for some reason the fact they were incompetent is treated as a bar against liability.
Glad they fixed it, but it was insane that they didn't have basic facility setups.
What cracked me up during the whole fiasco was a couple of Boilermaker fans on Reddit constantly arguing that Purdue didn't have the money and that they never expected it to be hot.
I've gone to games in Ann Arbor in late mid/late September where it's been in the low 90s, so for someone to say that they never expected it to reach those temps in central Indiana is just asinine.
Ugh, that should read "mid/late September," not "late mid/late September."
My kingdom for an EDIT button.
"Late mid/late" reminds me of the old Steve Martin bit about when he used to smoke marijuana.
Never at dusk!
Wilton Speight was the sacrificial lamb for the entire B1G.
RIP Wilton
Welcome to the 20th century to one of the top "engineering" schools in the country.
21st century?
Give 'em a chance to get used to being in the 20th century first.
I was at that game and it was a scorcher. I wondered why all of the Michigan team buses were pulling up so close to a stadium entrance as half-time approached. Read later that the team had to use the buses for their a/c and toilets due to lack of amenities in the locker room. Shameful!
Purdue locker rooms have AC?
For what it's worth, I went to the Purdue game last year. I got there a bit early before the game and wandered around the outside of the stadium with my friends. Someone from the Purdue Athletic department was driving around with a golf cart, stopped and said hi and even offered to give us a lift somewhere if we wanted. We accepted the ride to where all the events were happening and on the way, the guy chatted about all of the improvements to the stadium that they were planning. Bottom line is that they (Purdue) did not treat the opposing fans like they treated the opposing players and while Harbaugh may have changed the order/priority of changes, they were planning on some upgrades anyways.
This upgrade will definitely help diagnose bone fractures in a timely manner.
Wait, the visitor's locker room didn't have A/C either? Yikes.
Now, they'll probably say, "Running water was installed in 1993. I mean, what do you want from us?", but still....yikes.
They HAVE air conditioning, but will they actually turn it on for game days?
Great job Purdue. I realize ac has only been around for like 60 years so nice of you to install some in the visitors locker room
It just makes me laugh how big of a deal it was for them to meet such a basic accommodation.
There should be a conference requirement that whatever basic amenities the home team has, the visitors get them too. Air conditioning. Misting machines on the sidelines. Toilet facilities. Hot running water (I’m looking at you, Ohio State). You get to pick the kind of field you play on and have your own fans behind you. That should be it in terms of home field advantage.
Anyone else find it funny that Purdue is sort of passing this off like they're begrudgingly doing this due to Harbaugh bringing it to light? Never once before JH saying something last year did Purdue's athletic administration say it was an issue.
There's probably a good chance they never would have done anything about those issues for a long time if not for Harbaugh lobbying for it. Even if Harbaugh was the first coach to address it publicly, I guarantee someone with that university knew the difference between the conditions in the home locker rooms vs the visitors...
I think you're right. Harbaugh mentioned that the locker room was pretty much unchanged from the time he came there as a player in 1986.
In other news, indoor plumbing arrived in Central Indiana just last year. SMH... this is a B1G program?
A step in the right direction at least...