If I am being honest I didn't hear anything about an extra training room for the football team but they will make it more convenient to the football team over anything else. You are the sports medicine guy so I'm not going to argue about the resources needed for Division 1 athletics. I really want to look at the prints for this project to get a better feel of what's going on.WestWYOPoke wrote:Athletic training room. And where did you hear this from? UW doesn't have enough resources or athletic trainers to have football be truly independent from the other sports as far as sports medicine is concerned.poke_addict wrote:You guys are right all athletes will get to eat there. They will also able to train there as well but it will be around the football teams schedule. The majority of the building will be football only as well. The football team is getting upgrades to all of the amenities they had in the RAC. So a bigger locker room, team lounge, coaches offices, team film/war room, individual position film rooms, their own training room. No other teams will be housed in this facility. Its being designed for football training.WestWYOPoke wrote:If I remember right it is almost more for the Olympic sports than for football. Sure, it will benefit football, but it will have a much more significant impact on our other sports. Hell, it's a high-altitude training center, football is one of the least aerobic sports in the department, thus less advantage from altitude training.joshvanklomp wrote:If I remember right, this project is for much more than just the football teampoke_addict wrote:My biggest concern is we keep throwing money at the football team and see no results. To be spending that kind of money we better be seeing results much greater than a MWC title.
It's Laramie every where you go is high altitude there isn't going be any extra training advantage from what the RAC already was. They already had state of the art equipment in that building. The biggest plus to this building is the training table. If anything it should help with recruiting rather than actual training. Which I hope it does.
So yes all athletes will get to use it but football is the only one with full access to the building. So of the 15 varsity sports, 14 teams will have access and share half the building. While one team has dibs on the whole building. All athletes utilized the RAC but it was the football teams home.
As for the altitude training aspect, I was led to believe that the upgrade will allow for specific training areas/techniques that can utilize the fact that UW is at 7220 feet, we are also going to be able to use it to let in outside athletes to train.
I have a feeling that a lot of the extra training space will be designed for football but other athletes will be able to use as well. For example I could see one of those turf hills being installed inside the building.
I don't what kind of high altitude equipment is out there or if there is even a thing. So you might know some things I don't.
As far as outside athletes are you talking non student athletes. Because if we could convince some Olympic athletes to come and train at this facility I believe that would be recruiting advantage not many other schools could say they have. Also any of our pokes in pro's might consider coming in the off season's. If of course that isn't against NCAA rules somehow.
You guys are talking about revenue generating with this facility please enlighten me.
It's not like I'm not excited about this facility being built I just have a feeling this facility is the reason the AA was downgraded and where some of that money went. This building got funded because of football and that's that. My whole argument goes back to football in general for example if Bohl got to a bowl game this year I could see them extending his contract that day. Let's say Edwards won the MWC outright this year then it wouldn't be as smooth of a process and that pisses me off big time. Show all the team's as much love PLEASE. Give all the teams what they need to be the best. This facility if used right could be a start.