Wow !!!--New Kentucky Football Facility

[HeavenUniv.]

On UKathletics.com,they have a video of their new football training facility. Hope that our renovated one at Rutgers Stadium will be in the ballpark.

 

[KeithK7624]

Link

 

[RUKnight08]

It's amazing. Do we know how much money is going to be allocated to our football team's facility

 

[Jim_from_RU]

On UKathletics.com,they have a video of their new football training facility. Hope that our renovated one at Rutgers Stadium will be in the ballpark.

Hale Center is limited in space because it's attached to the stadium.

 

[Scarlet_Scourge]

And we don't have years of SEC money.

But, instead of trying to compare us to rich schools, you should compare the new gym to the old one we had.

Maybe after years of full Big Ten payouts we can build something like that or better.

 

[koleszar]

Building that in Kentucky probably cost $100 bucks and a pack of chewing gum. It's the 8th poorest state in the Union. They probably paid the workers in food stamps. Their donors surely do have their priorities straightened out down there.[eyeroll]

 

[RUKnight08]

It is def. a beauty though

 

[Blitz8RUCrazy]

What a waste

 

[PiscatawayMike]

Everyone knows Kentucky is a basketball school, but the football team averaged 61,295 fans per home game last year. Not too shabby.

http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/Attendance/2015.pdf

 

[Abro1975]

'Although Kentucky ranks 47th among US states in educational attainment, studies show that Kentucky’s educational and economic status has improved in the last decade (UK/CBER, 2015)'

https://cedikentucky.wordpress.com/2015/09/08/education-where-does-kentucky-rank-why-does-it-matter/

 

[PSU_Nut]

Building that in Kentucky probably cost $100 bucks and a pack of chewing gum. It's the 8th poorest state in the Union. They probably paid the workers in food stamps. Their donors surely do have their priorities straightened out down there.[eyeroll]

It was $45 million.

 

[Scarlet_Scourge]

It was $45 million.

That's it? argh.... That would cost $145 here.

 

[El Curioso Impertinente]

That's it? argh.... That would cost $145 here.

Maybe, but you could design and build a really nice facility for $45 million, even in NJ.

especially if it were built with the idea, that it would need constant upgrading at least once a decade.

 

[theRU]

facilities, facilities, facilities.

Thats all that matters in college athletics. Its all about how much you invest in the program. RU has been bad in a lot of areas, and if you look at our investment numbers it all makes sense. Its not rocket science.

 

[MGSA99]

The biggest joke that has been running about that place is that they actually made their own national championship trophy, complete with trophy case, for the 1950 squad.

 

[Scarlet_Scourge]

The biggest joke that has been running about that place is that they actually made their own national championship trophy, complete with trophy case, for the 1950 squad.

Ha! Rutgers didn't even recognized their National Championship until the Big Ten asked them to. Princeton always has as well as the NCAA.

Maybe we and Princeton can get one made for the 150th?

 

[miketd1]

I didn't even know we "claimed" the 1869 "National Championship". Looked it up and lo & behold, there it is.

 

[demauroj]

I have to say....... The locker Room Portion of the facilities with the cold/hot tubs and position group break down cubes was pretty cool./

 

[demauroj]

Hale Center is limited in space because it's attached to the stadium.

This facility also looks like it is attached to their stadium.

 

[LevaosLectures]

This is bad for Louisville.

 

[jerseyjustin]

They forgot the stripper poles.

 

[czxqa]

They forgot the stripper poles.

No, they decided that competing on Louisville's level was beneath them.