All-American HS football recruits vote on who has college football’s best facilities
This is an interesting article. Michigan is keeping up with the Jones'. As expected.
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/american-hs-football-recruits-vote-183003335.html
January 19th, 2022 at 3:45 PM ^
Ooooooops!! Not much of an article, but it does provide some information/idea.
January 19th, 2022 at 4:15 PM ^
Seriously, "article"??? Tyler Calvaruso and Yahoo Sports managed to "write" an "article" that is 6 sentences long, about college football team facilities and that involves 11 photos, 0 of which are of the team's training facilities.
Honestly, this level of bad is top notch. Bravo.
January 19th, 2022 at 4:25 PM ^
They "interviewed" less than 100 kids that played in the All-American Bowl. I bet the vast majority of them were asked "who has the best facilities" and they just responded to the school where they will be playing. Case in point: Illinois got 1 vote. Their stadium looks like something from a very large high school.
Notre Dame - in the middle of a wind swept desolate farm country - has the "third best facilities"? Kid's don't look just at the gym when making their choice. Facilities also included best night life.
January 19th, 2022 at 4:49 PM ^
And pizza.
January 19th, 2022 at 4:58 PM ^
I assume they were asked about the facilities for football players, and not the campus or town.
Obviously though, campus and town would be major parts of a recruit's decision.
January 19th, 2022 at 8:03 PM ^
When was the last time that you were on the athletic campus at ND?
Every one of their facilities is top notch. Pretty much every building there is new or renovated within the last 10 years.
To hell with ND and all, but lets at least be honest..
January 19th, 2022 at 8:39 PM ^
Their scissor lifts suck.
January 19th, 2022 at 8:58 PM ^
That's because you're supposed to put them in when the weather gets bad.
January 19th, 2022 at 3:47 PM ^
Air Force? Purdue? Hmmm....I'm gonna guess the people who voted for those places weren't recruited by (and therefore never saw) the higher ranked schools on this list.
January 19th, 2022 at 4:01 PM ^
Idk man, have you ever seen military spending? They may have the best facilities for all we know
January 19th, 2022 at 4:25 PM ^
I heard the toilet seats cost $15,000 each!!!
January 19th, 2022 at 5:30 PM ^
Well Purdue does have the best Hype Video in history.
Who knew white middle class engineering student had such mad skillz?
January 19th, 2022 at 8:40 PM ^
I hope they win the national championship this year just for that video alone.
January 20th, 2022 at 7:48 AM ^
Whoever voted for Purdue clearly was never injured during a game there. What a joke. And Indiana, with its high school stadium in a corn field?
January 20th, 2022 at 11:52 PM ^
Indiana - “high school stadium in a cornfield”. WTF - you’ve clearly never been to Bloomington. Tailgating on the GRASS fields south of the stadium is great and the stadium is in the city. I don’t remember seeing a corn field anywhere close to there
high probability that they don’t have the best facilities (John Mellencamp field House < Al Glick’s) but C’mon man!
January 20th, 2022 at 11:52 PM ^
Indiana - “high school stadium in a cornfield”. WTF - you’ve clearly never been to Bloomington. Tailgating on the GRASS fields south of the stadium is great and the stadium is in the city. I don’t remember seeing a corn field anywhere close to there
high probability that they don’t have the best facilities (John Mellencamp field House < Al Glick’s) but C’mon man!
January 19th, 2022 at 3:51 PM ^
All a bit messy and unscientific, and I know from living in Tallahassee and watching FSU struggle to figure it out that things like TVs in toilets. . . may impress young men more than lavish historical displays (which Michigan will be good at). I remember visiting the Allen Fieldhouse for a basketball game at U Kansas and being wowed while my daughter yawned. . .
But hopefully, while students are sleeping in their cars cuz they can't afford rent (as some of my wife's students definitely ARE), we do not lose sight of reality completely.
January 19th, 2022 at 4:29 PM ^
Good points. Not sure why you got down-voted.
January 19th, 2022 at 3:58 PM ^
This is based on interviewing participants at the All-American Bowl.
- Oregon - 12 votes
- Georgia - 11
- ND - 9
- Alabama - 8
- OSU & Clemson - 6
- Michigan - 4
- LSU, Oklahoma, PSU, Texas, Texas A&M - 3
- A bunch of others with 2 or 1.
Seems like the top 4 stand out and then it flattens out pretty quick. Not a lot of surprises on this list.
January 19th, 2022 at 6:25 PM ^
Also, boo yahoo. Here is teh actual source article:
January 19th, 2022 at 3:58 PM ^
not a bad post - but id say that being in 7th behind the usual "winners" - bama, clemson, osu - isnt good enough. We were ranked 3 at the end of this year and we saw how FAR we were from 1 and 2. So, yes, its not on field results, but id say being in 7th isnt enough for those that want to get to 1 and 2.
January 19th, 2022 at 3:59 PM ^
Deeply invalid method as Purdue received a vote. They are well known for below standard facilities.
January 19th, 2022 at 4:04 PM ^
It was just the results of a tiny sample size. If you asked the right woman who is the most handsome man on earth, Ugli Eric might win.
January 19th, 2022 at 5:27 PM ^
If you have money your chances go up.
January 19th, 2022 at 4:05 PM ^
The ambulance with Speight is still circling the campus looking for an X-ray machine and presumably a shitter.
January 19th, 2022 at 5:26 PM ^
Maybe their throwing in the ambulance.
January 19th, 2022 at 4:16 PM ^
We need to be #1, someone get Stephen M. Ross on the horn!
January 19th, 2022 at 4:26 PM ^
Maybe MSU isn't represented because All-American football recruits aren't interested in visiting
January 19th, 2022 at 4:29 PM ^
No Michigan State?
January 19th, 2022 at 4:39 PM ^
other than the roided panashook brothers, nobody is there long enough to see the facilities.
January 19th, 2022 at 5:40 PM ^
Nope. The facilities manager called for his supervisor when the kids asked to see the place.
January 19th, 2022 at 6:11 PM ^
Merely unreliable speculation. It's likely that most of the small sample size have even seen a significant number of facilities.
January 19th, 2022 at 6:17 PM ^
Sorry, Bob. This is not a stastically significant poll. Need a much larger sample size according to my Michigan education. W
January 19th, 2022 at 6:37 PM ^
The best part was the Michigan photo was from the Columbus Dispatch from The Game, haha.
January 20th, 2022 at 7:36 AM ^
The level of bies on these poles is just painful.