Crisler Center: Exterior Walls ripped Out

I don't think it will be changed from what it was this season (12,721).  I believe this is just about widening and brightening the concourses and adding an atrium.

I believe seating capacity will decrease slightly due to the luxury boxes being added to the inner concourse, like the 2 installed last summer.  A row of seats, approximately 12, needs to be removed for each box and they are adding 4 boxes.  These boxes hold less than the amount of seats being removed. 

...I'd argue we should take out all the frats/apts. on the west side of State st. and install this going down the hill from the Union so that students could jump over packard and land in front of keen...

you know, for fun

Agreed. I wonder what the world of Ski jumper recruiting is like.

James Earl Jones Court

My undergrad school, the Univ. of Kansas, has James Naismith Court inside Allen Fieldhouse, and I think even that is sort of goofy. 

Haven't we already done this? Named it the Crisler Center, after Fritz Crisler, a legendary Michigan coach? Unless, we name each individual thing (i.e., not only the Crisler Center, the John Smith Basketball Court, The Bob Costas Announcer's Booth, the Julia Child Concession Stand, the Kate Upton Women's Restroom, etc., etc.) Regardless, I generally agree with what you're saying, and the naming thing can be overdone.

Most non-Michigan fans already think our arena is sponsored by Chrysler anyways.  They seem to be doing better and spending a lot on advertising, DB should get them to pony up for naming rights and just call it the Chrysler/Crisler center.

I think the point was that, overall, our facilities rival any other university in the nation.  While some SEC schools have nice baseball fields, those same schools are lacking in facilities for basketball or non-revenue sports.  I agree with the original post, with our new PDC center, newly renovated Crisler, the Big House expansion, and all of our wrestling, soccer, swimming, field hockey, eventual lacrosse fields, etc.  Our atheletic campus as a whole would be hard to top by another University

I confess, I'm a Michigan Homer. But yes, (as noted by the other response,) I'm thinking of the athletic campus as a whole. In a post a couple weeks ago, it occurred to me that Michigan is rare in having strength simultaneously in Football, Hockey, & Basketball. This is ignoring all of the "minor" sports. (Maybe it would be better to say "non-revenue producing" rather than "minor.") But I know that soccer, and swimming, have great facilities. I know nothing about Lacrosse, but across the board, the facilities are very good.

I'm sure, as you mention, there are campuses that are better in one or another sport's facilities. But taking the whole enchilada and looking at the aggregate, Michigan is pretty solid. I vaguely recall that Ohio has the most NCAA sports of any campus. So I suppose it would make sense to compare our facilities to Ohio's. The SEC suffers with no hockey teams, and in many cases, weak basketball teams.

In terms of athletic success, UCLA & Stanford have more than 100 NCAA championships each (Michigan has 53. Link:  http://www.mgoblue.com/trads/national-champions.html.) So, rather than just making blind allegations, I should probably check out the facilities at Ohio, Stanford, & UCLA. Other than those three, I suspect Michigan has better "aggregate" facilities. And it is possible that our facilites, with the recent upgrades and additions, are now better than these three too.

January or February of 2013. See my post above for a link to the source.

Probably referring to track and field, swimming and the like. Basically the only venues that haven't been renovated in the last decade.

This U-M press release has a link to the schematic design photos showing what Crisler will look like after the renovation.