Warde Manuel/Michigan to expected to renovate football weight room, expand Schembechler Hall
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This blurb was in D1 Ticker this morning.
Michigan AD Manuel has already noted the need to renovate the Wolverines FB weight room, another possible move is expanding Tom Brady's TB12 sports therapy center, "Tom Brady is very important to us and, if he has some ideas conceptually that will be able to help us and move us forward and help our student-athletes, then I’m definitely going to have that conversation with him. And we have that conversation with many others to find out if there’s a way to provide to our students the things that they need to be successful. So we’ll continue to do that." - link
long long long overdue for the players. The weight room definitely needs an over haul
They should tear down Oosterbaan (it sticks out like a sore thumb with all the new buildings) and connect the weight room to the Glick and Schembechler Hall. they could even expand the Towsley museum, since there's hardly enough room in there to fit our trophies. I honestly think Brandon rushed that renovation, it seems like he just wanted done quickly instead of thinking long term.
Oosterbaan definitely needs to go. I do believe other sports use the facility (softball and lacrosse for example) in addition to football, so they'll need to replace that somehow either with a new building somehwere else or as part of this renovation.
I think the museum is great, but I'm with you in that they should have just gutted the place and started from scratch. Brandon could have hit a home run here but instead hit a double. This is the one area Michigan can level the playing field vs all those SEC teams who pay players. Just build the best damn facility in the land. I think Warde and Harbaugh know this.
Can't they use the Glick for softball and lacrosse? In the future they could even use the new indoor track facility.
I think the museum is great, but I'm with you in that they should have just gutted the place and started from scratch. Brandon could have hit a home run here but instead hit a double. This is the one area Michigan can level the playing field vs all those SEC teams who pay players. Just build the best damn facility in the land. I think Warde and Harbaugh know this.
I agree, this would be an opportunity to fix that.
No football coaches is going to allow that...
And you want them throwing balls around in a big glass building? So you put up a bunch of netting and it defeats the purpose of the windows.
It'll never happen. Maybe with a scheduling conflict if your coach is cool enough, but full-time? Not a shot in hell.
Just expand the weight room and build a new indoor training facility without any plan of hosting any type of competition. Just enough to let the outdoor sports train when the weather is poor.
Is there an indoor hitting facility for softball and baseball. May just want to do that. It's smaller and soccer and lacrosse can still train on a short field when the weather sucks.
It bugs me that Crisler is so close to Michigan Stadium. What reason was there to put it right on top of it?
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They're also putting in a laser tag area. Which, yea.
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How about moving the museum closer to the stadium, maybe an addition to Crisler so it more accessible on game day. That would more room in Schemblecer for football operations.
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April 19th, 2016 at 12:27 AM ^
There was an interesting article about the CFB arms race a while ago. It pointed out that since colleges can't pay the players, they instead "pay" the players with theme parks and espresso bars and i-pads to compete.
They try to look at what a young man in college spends his money on, and then try to provide as much of that as they can in lieu of cash compensation.
They twist into pretzels to make it look like it's necessary as part of the requirements of being a football / basketball player, so as not to run afoul of the NCAA you-can't-give-benefits-you-don't-give-to-regular-students rules.
Yeah, right.