Do you think Nebraska new football facilities look as good as this with all the bell and whistle?
Alabama $288M facility
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Do you think Nebraska new football facilities look as good as this with all the bell and whistle?
Recently saw an article ranking the top 25 facilities in the country. Big Red was nowhere to be found. I remember my last visit there thinking it seemed very dated. This talk that they are among the top facilities in the country, needs to be put out to pasture.
Too be fair the only people that have seen a resemblance of the facility’s are the designers and people in the Athletic office ( Trev Alberts) and coaching staff…
I believe they show a virtual film of what it’s going to look like to future prospects being recruited..
I believe they show a virtual film of what it’s going to look like to future prospects being recruited..
Nebraska is only spending $135 mil for the athletics training and locker room facility which is still a lot. Comparison to Alabama's $288 mil football facility, who knows what Nebraska facility will look like when its done. With building materials in 2022 skyrocketing, they're gonna need more than $135 mil. Originally the work was on schedule at this stage for a summer 2023 opening For Nebraska to compete with other facilities around the country but that might be pushed back.
I already donated some money to the new facility during the Glow Big Red campaign week..
Money, followed by coaches fluffing recruits, followed by winning, followed by everything else, is what pulls kids into the fold.
I think albert said because bids were locked in, before the material increases, they were going fourth
I wonder if bama had more things being built then Nebraska is going to build, because NU may allready have certian things. them dollar amount comparisions may not be apples for apples
Alabama also has a wall that shows all of their players and their signing amount that went to thr NFL. What HS kid wouldn't be mesmerized by that?
Projects are bid with some leeway in price increases and materials. The contractor isn't going to eat the extra costs.
You have to put in ALL of the latest technology and creature comforts knowing it will be good for a few years and then obsolete. Putting in old technology doesn't fly, even if some old farts think it is cool to them. This is a constant arms battle I am not sure Nebraska can win long term.
Projects are bid with some leeway in price increases and materials. The contractor isn't going to eat the extra costs.
You have to put in ALL of the latest technology and creature comforts knowing it will be good for a few years and then obsolete. Putting in old technology doesn't fly, even if some old farts think it is cool to them. This is a constant arms battle I am not sure Nebraska can win long term.
Trev is failing big time. Maybe he'll just start cutting sports and that will solve the problem.
That’s the common thought among boosters and admins in Lincoln. Trev had a very abrasive manner that does not mesh well with his employees. We will soon long for the days of Eichorst/Pederson. Can’t get much worse than that
Shame on you for comparing Trev to Eichorst and Pederson. Trev would never hire a bum like Mike Riley unlike Eichorst and unlike Steve Pederson, he would not try to reinvent Nebraska's image.
The buildings at Harvard and Yale are 150 years old and they still get many of the best students.
Facilities don't win games. Coaches who have charisma and talent to recruit and coach win games.
From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, Miami was the one of a couple dominant forces in college football, and their facilities then are eclipsed by many high schools now. Terrible locker and training facilities, no indoor practice facility to get out of the searing heat and humidity, and shoot, they didn't even have a stadium so they had to rent one of the oldest stadiums on the country.
But what they did have was Jimmy Johnson and Dennis Erickson, two great coaches with great schemes and with staffs who could recruit.
It's funny. I know that the 1994 Miami team had Sapp, Lewis, and a couple of good WRs, but past that, their talent that year was frankly not to the level of most Miami teams, like the ones in the late 1980s and early 2000s. Their QB was really average and their OL was frankly weak. But yet Erickson and 2 extremly talented players were able to keep them in the game until they just got worn out.
A lesser coach would have lost that game to the talent laden Huskers (Frazier, Phillips, Wiegert, Stai, Peter, Jones, Stewart, Williams, etc.) 40-7. The only reason why Miami was able to hang in that game was Sapp and Lewis. Without them, Nebraska would have done to Miami the same thing they did to Florida the following year.
No, there isn't.
The track itself is complete, which was phase 1 around $10M. The stands are part of phase 2 and the only bid they received is higher than what was (I believe $6M) initially budgeted for.
Baseball has massive improvements in the early stages. That wouldn't happen with "financial problems".
Trev Alberts is the best thing to happen to the Huskers Athletics program since Tom Osborne was roaming the sideline as head coach. Ronnie Green, as well as a few elected officials, have been a road bump.
Nebraska isn't getting the best players, not by a longshot. Will better facilities help? Debatable. For a program desperate to even sniff some of its past success, a facility on par with the top 25 at least provides the optic that they care about winning.
Harvard and Yale are ivy league schools not fbs schools so that makes a big difference. Top notch facilities and winning makes a big difference with top recruits in this new Gen Z time. Its a different time and era compared to the 80's 90's, and early 2000's when there was no social media around that time.
I'll be completely honest and I don't think that I'm alone here, but if what you say is true and it's all about attracting a bunch of Gen Z narcissists, then I'll spend my Saturdays in the fall coaching youth football and leave these people to wallow in their own crap.
You might be not be alone but you’re in the minority on this subject..
Smaller position rooms and locker rooms needed to be upgraded just to name a few reasons but there is more..
If I ever long for the days of those two ******** then someone needs to please shoot me in the gotdamn head asap.
Please do whatever is necessary to get us back to respectable. I cant even envision Nattys at this time. But a decent bowl game and a win over Iowa would be nice.