Seriously doubt it. When I went there, shortly before they had electricity and indoor plumbing, the stadium was just a big erector set thrown together with no eye for esthetics. Just naked stands exposed on the back side. Then about 20-30 years ago, they went totally in the opposite direction and wrapped the stadium with offices and othe…
Seriously doubt it. When I went there, shortly before they had electricity and indoor plumbing, the stadium was just a big erector set thrown together with no eye for esthetics. Just naked stands exposed on the back side. Then about 20-30 years ago, they went totally in the opposite direction and wrapped the stadium with offices and other stuff in a beautiful brick design. It is the largest brick structure in North America. Never thought that anything else was needed. But now they have reversed course and torn out everything that was there when I was. Damn sure baffled as to how new seating would cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
The new football-only pleasure palace is going to be the first to be geared towards VR training. The QB’s can put their VR goggles on and play very realistic games and have coaches pointing out what they are supposed to do and, after, what they did wrong. And then go back and do it all over again. I think that is a fantastic way to accelerate the learning curve. Future QBs are going to be so much more prepared and productive.
You absolutely have to have facilities like that now for recruiting. A five star phenom goes to School A and sees their megadollar emporium, then goes to B and then to C and then to D, but D doesn’t have one. What are the odds he is going to D? Less than 10%. It’s not that a school needs one, it’s that they can NOT not have one. New world. New expectations.
Sounds like a lot of waste going on. Too bad. Welp. Yes, a Brave New World for college sports. I guess we’re getting our D1 program at a bargain rate. Aaron Rodgers paid for an all refurbished locker room and training center. Stanfurd (that’s how we spell it) has been doing the VR training for quite a few years, now. It really makes a difference. Builds reaction time and muscle memory.
Seriously doubt it. When I went there, shortly before they had electricity and indoor plumbing, the stadium was just a big erector set thrown together with no eye for esthetics. Just naked stands exposed on the back side. Then about 20-30 years ago, they went totally in the opposite direction and wrapped the stadium with offices and other stuff in a beautiful brick design. It is the largest brick structure in North America. Never thought that anything else was needed. But now they have reversed course and torn out everything that was there when I was. Damn sure baffled as to how new seating would cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
The new football-only pleasure palace is going to be the first to be geared towards VR training. The QB’s can put their VR goggles on and play very realistic games and have coaches pointing out what they are supposed to do and, after, what they did wrong. And then go back and do it all over again. I think that is a fantastic way to accelerate the learning curve. Future QBs are going to be so much more prepared and productive.
You absolutely have to have facilities like that now for recruiting. A five star phenom goes to School A and sees their megadollar emporium, then goes to B and then to C and then to D, but D doesn’t have one. What are the odds he is going to D? Less than 10%. It’s not that a school needs one, it’s that they can NOT not have one. New world. New expectations.
Sounds like a lot of waste going on. Too bad. Welp. Yes, a Brave New World for college sports. I guess we’re getting our D1 program at a bargain rate. Aaron Rodgers paid for an all refurbished locker room and training center. Stanfurd (that’s how we spell it) has been doing the VR training for quite a few years, now. It really makes a difference. Builds reaction time and muscle memory.