Gophers New Athletes Village a Game Changer for Football and Basketball?

[Franisdaman]

The U of Minnesota Athletes Village is half completed. It consists of 336,000 square feet of locker rooms, weight rooms, indoor football fields, basketball courts, skyways, hot tubs, cold tubs, kitchens, kitchenettes, tutoring rooms and players lounges.

The Gophers’ $166 million recruiting battle station won’t become fully operational until January, but a walk through the metal framing and dry wall should be enough to sell a student-athlete on the fact that Minnesota is committed to winning contests of sport.

Its interesting that the new UM football coach and the UM basketball coach will benefit from what Jerry Kill and Tubby Smith lobbied for.

Jerry Kill fielded teams in TCF Bank Stadium but became immediately disgusted by the football training facilities, once complaining that his players had to “eat in the hallway.” Kill lobbied hard for facilities for his program and was a key fundraiser for the U’s new sports campus before retiring for health reasons.


The full story: http://www.twincities.com/2017/07/2...th-athletes-village-has-no-space-for-excuses/

 

[binsfeldcyhawk2]

 

[DanL53]

This is a problem. See what a state can do with a booming economy.

 

[hooper56]

This is a problem. See what a state can do with a booming economy.

Love how they close the rest stops for a time each summer to help with "budget constraints".

 

[DanL53]

Love how they close the rest stops for a time each summer to help with "budget constraints".

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2017-03-02/minnesota-ranks-no-3-among-best-states

 

[Auger]

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2017-03-02/minnesota-ranks-no-3-among-best-states

Minnesota is actually in survival mode right now. They have been on the same ok climb over the last 15 years. The recession didnt affect them much. The future right now is a huge concern for Minnesota. For the past few years they have been adding low wage low skill jobs but have been in steady decline in high tech jobs, skilled labour and entrepreneurial activity. Minnesota is losing more high income and upper middle class families than are moving in. The 45% of the population living outside of the Twin Cities is losing wealth and unemployment is rising. What is happening in Minnesota right now reminds me of what was going on in Quebec and Ontario years ago. They experienced similar gains as Minnesota but ultimately have now eneded up billions of $ in debt but are saved by Canada's Equalization Payments program where Provinces like Alberta pay to help keep Quebec and Ontario afloat.

 

[RefinedBean]

It's nice they erected a village so they can concentrate where all the sexual assaults will take place. Convenient!

 

[And1Hawk]

Well it dwarfs ours now. Makes it look like we did not look far enough ahead and build more.

 

[myteamcanbeatupyourteam]

The U of Minnesota Athletes Village is half completed. It consists of 336,000 square feet of locker rooms, weight rooms, indoor football fields, basketball courts, skyways, hot tubs, cold tubs, kitchens, kitchenettes, tutoring rooms and players lounges.

The Gophers’ $166 million recruiting battle station won’t become fully operational until January, but a walk through the metal framing and dry wall should be enough to sell a student-athlete on the fact that Minnesota is committed to winning contests of sport.

Its interesting that the new UM football coach and the UM basketball coach will benefit from what Jerry Kill and Tubby Smith lobbied for.

Jerry Kill fielded teams in TCF Bank Stadium but became immediately disgusted by the football training facilities, once complaining that his players had to “eat in the hallway.” Kill lobbied hard for facilities for his program and was a key fundraiser for the U’s new sports campus before retiring for health reasons.


The full story: http://www.twincities.com/2017/07/2...th-athletes-village-has-no-space-for-excuses/