Facilities! Facilities! Facilities! At Some Point, What Shall Strong Address?

[BevoBlake]

The bubble needs renovation but it's far from a laughing stock. Texas is widely considered to have one of the greatest, if not the greatest, weight rooms in the entire country. The Locker Room could be touched up but it certainly doesn't need it. And I don't think an expansion of DKR is necessary until Texas starts winning double digit games a season again. The kind of renovations Texas needs are the small ones that nobody really pays attention too when watching a game. Such as the horrible sound system the stadium currently has. There isn't any excuse for the music played before the game to sound grumbled and grainy. Parking is something else Texas needs to take a look at. It's not great right now unless you arrive hours upon hours early. And it's only going to get worse when the Med School is in. Moving on from that, they need a new basketball arena. But from my understanding, that is already in the books.

 

[J.B. TexasEx]

While it may suck that we will be behind Ag when their expansion is done, I would bet we never expand our stadium. With the amount of money Delo$$ and $teve Patter$on insist on charging for tickets and the quality of HD TV, filling stadiums that large is going to be harder and harder to do. If anything they will wait and see how Ag does filling their seats and also see what ticket demands are for DKR.

IMHO, aggy bit off way more than he can chew. A 102k seat stadium for a program that had trouble selling out 88k unless UT, Tech, or OU was coming to town? Ridiculous, but that's aggy business acumen. SEC fans do travel better than most Big 12 teams, but I still foresee a struggle without a Heisman winner at QB.

I agree. Our stadium is plenty large enough. Let's just upgrade the game experience with improved WiFi and state-of-the-art acoustics. DKR is fine.

Looking forward to the new basketball arena. Agree that the game experience can and should be improved for students by getting them as close to the floor as possible.

 

[tcarlynyc]

A lot of teams have bubbles - it looks like a bubble from the outside, but have you been inside it? How do you say it's the laughing stock - I've never heard a single peep from anyplace about it.

We have a great weight room, and locker room that rivals the pros. The player lounge is fantastic - have you looked at the facilities on the football site?

Have you been to other stadiums in the B12? I've been to every single one of them. I can't think of one that is better than ours - which one is?

I've been to Va Tech, all B12, Orange Bowl, Ohio State, Nebraska, and Michigan stadiums off the top of my head. None of them have anything on us.

Not sure how you are getting your information to make such statements.

Our facilities are fine.

 

[Topstarr]

upgrade all......because we are going to WIN NOW

 

[aowells]

How often do they practice in the bubble? Obviously we don't want kids dying on the field, but it seems to me that since we play outside, we should be practicing primarily outside.

Toughness isn't just about what you can lift.

 

[Lord Vader]

Here is the thing with our facilities. Lets look at the places on this list by population and square miles (Land area only)

Ann Arbor, MI: 116,121 - 28.7

Tuscaloosa, AL: 93,357 - 60.2

Norman, OK: 110,925 - 177.0

Eugene, OR: 157,986 - 43.7

College Station, TX: 97,534 - 40.3

Austin, TX: 842,592 - 271.8

What do the others have Austin does not? ROOM. Before you complain about the want of new facilities, tell me where you build them?

We can build a massive new practice facility. Best of everything, Absolute monster. Nearest place with enough open land to put it? Oh...probably out in Bee Cave. None of the others have a massive population base surrounding them either. Metro Austin has just the south side of 2,000,000 people.

What we have is in the center of a major city. We cant just displace 30,000 people or a multi million dollar office complex to build a new Oregon sized center.

 

[Juan]

What do the others have Austin does not? ROOM.

Our room is up or down.

 

[KatyKid]

99.999999% of the people nationally have no clue what Texas' bubble looks like. To say it's a national joke is just DUMB. It works just as well as the new ones being built and it probably looks just fine from the inside. That said, I'm sure it will get replaced in the near future. I drove through Baylor's campus the other day and their indoor practice facility is good looking from the outside. Brick building. If the practice fields are going to remain where they are the new indoor facility will likely be built where the current one is (or very close).

 

[Randell Weatherall Jr]

can't believe the defending of our facilities. If you look at Louisville's facilities, they are better than UT's. The bubble needs to be replaced with a real indoor facility that won't collapse if air pressure is lost. We were not the first to build an indoor facility in the south. Tech had a bubble in the early 90s, and places like LSU and Tennessee had real, permanent indoof facilities well before UT built the bubble. We've had our facilities bragged about by our own brass, but its pretty easy to see that UT is very middle of the pack when looking at the facilities of other schools. UT needs to embrace the campus density and get creative. No reason a massive facility can't be built in the space south of DKR down to the Rec Sports center with practice fields on the roof of a huge two field indoor facility. It won't be done, because we're Texans and we have no creativity and we always think we have the best. If UT wants to win at the rate it talks about, then it needs to look good and hard about the reality of what exists and how many millions it will take to have the top facilities.

 

[monarch]

can't believe the defending of our facilities. If you look at Louisville's facilities, they are better than UT's. The bubble needs to be replaced with a real indoor facility that won't collapse if air pressure is lost. We were not the first to build an indoor facility in the south. Tech had a bubble in the early 90s, and places like LSU and Tennessee had real, permanent indoof facilities well before UT built the bubble. We've had our facilities bragged about by our own brass, but its pretty easy to see that UT is very middle of the pack when looking at the facilities of other schools. UT needs to embrace the campus density and get creative. No reason a massive facility can't be built in the space south of DKR down to the Rec Sports center with practice fields on the roof of a huge two field indoor facility. It won't be done, because we're Texans and we have no creativity and we always think we have the best. If UT wants to win at the rate it talks about, then it needs to look good and hard about the reality of what exists and how many millions it will take to have the top facilities.

...much obliged randell, for a moment there i thought i had wondered into the "twilight zone". because i can assure anyone, that i am not the only one concerned as per our dilapidated facilities. members have got to keep in mind.... that we are living in a new age. recruits seem to take hold to "glamour" more so, than i have ever witnessed. for today's recruits, it is not always about the daily rigors of the gridiron. many recruits simply want to live well and feel accomplished at the very end of the day. i mean if you still do not believe me.... just take a look at where all of the best recruits are heading...

 

[aowells]

I understand that nice facilities show well on recruiting visits, but aside from being able to swing our d&*k and say we've got the best of everything, is the state of our facilities impeding our ability to prepare for and win football games?

 

[monarch]

I understand that nice facilities show well on recruiting visits, but aside from being able to swing our d&*k and say we've got the best of everything, is the state of our facilities impeding our ability to prepare for and win football games?

...that would be a different thread...