Warde Manuel/Michigan to expected to renovate football weight room, expand Schembechler Hall
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This blurb was in D1 Ticker this morning.
Michigan AD Manuel has already noted the need to renovate the Wolverines FB weight room, another possible move is expanding Tom Brady's TB12 sports therapy center, "Tom Brady is very important to us and, if he has some ideas conceptually that will be able to help us and move us forward and help our student-athletes, then I’m definitely going to have that conversation with him. And we have that conversation with many others to find out if there’s a way to provide to our students the things that they need to be successful. So we’ll continue to do that." - link
April 17th, 2016 at 11:28 AM ^
I was able to get this much, without opening the link...
When Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel arrived in mid-March, his plan was to survey the athletic department landscape.
He already sees one area that needs help at U-M: The football team's weight room.
“Based on today’s standards and the things that you’re doing to create more space to train our student athletes,” he said in a Free Press interview last week.
U-M football coach Jim Harbaugh and former interim athletic director Jim Hackettwere scheduled to take a fundraising trip to meet with donors in early February to raise money for the project.
The weight room was refurbished for $1 million when Rich Rodriguez took over in 2008, but no major changes have occurred since, other than the signage and the equipment changing when a new strength staff arrived.
Manuel hadn’t seen the weight room in awhile and saw the need for more space to be created “based on training methodology now.
“It means probably an addition … to Schembechler Hall,” Manuel said.
The sports performance aspect has been on Harbaugh’s mind and Manuel sees possibilities for expansion there as well.
“By the time you do that, then you’re create some other space and some other areas that will impact particularly sports performance, nutrition, training,” Manuel said.
April 17th, 2016 at 12:19 PM ^
April 19th, 2016 at 12:14 AM ^
The weight room was refurbished for $1 million when Rich Rodriguez took over in 2008, but no major changes have occurred since
Yeah, God forbid you go a whole 8 years without making another multi-million dollar upgrade to the weight room.
Can't compete without a waterfall these days.
Manuel hadn’t seen the weight room in awhile.
Sorry, I'll see myself out.
April 17th, 2016 at 11:31 PM ^
"The weight room was refurbished for $1 million when Rich Rodriguez took over in 2008, but no major changes have occurred since"
My basement was refurbished with a new $0.0014 Million TV in 2008, but no major changes have occured since. It is a damn shame.
April 17th, 2016 at 11:35 AM ^
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April 17th, 2016 at 12:17 PM ^
giving advice to Warde:
April 17th, 2016 at 12:35 PM ^
Which one is WD?
Bart, right?
/s
April 17th, 2016 at 12:37 PM ^
I was pointing out that they completely ignored the things the players use. That last renovation was huge. They knocked down the walls.
April 17th, 2016 at 12:48 PM ^
Subs?
C'mon, when is any part of Ann Arbor NOT under major construction? (and I'm not talking about roads)
That's just the pace of life today.
A few new 6-10 story buildings every year.
April 19th, 2016 at 12:16 AM ^
Ann Arbor is such a bubble from reality.
April 17th, 2016 at 11:42 AM ^
Maize Haze can breathe again.
April 17th, 2016 at 12:14 PM ^
April 17th, 2016 at 11:46 AM ^
This needs to be done. You see some of the facilities that a lot of other programs are building and we need to at least stay on par with them.
April 17th, 2016 at 12:21 PM ^
is building a brothel.
First rule, bro. First rule.
April 17th, 2016 at 11:59 AM ^
April 17th, 2016 at 12:01 PM ^
Need to get the ferris wheel built first though.
April 17th, 2016 at 12:51 PM ^
Or we add the Blue Streak from Cedar Point.
April 18th, 2016 at 12:13 AM ^
It will either fix or make permanent all neck and back injuries our team suffers. Jim's way of weeding out the skeletally weak.
April 17th, 2016 at 12:08 PM ^
April 17th, 2016 at 12:45 PM ^
Is it possible to get Bluetooth-compatible speakers hooked up to that TV? I am looking to get rid of a set and I am willing to get myself on the donor list somehow in lieu of the ability to donate ungodly sums of money to my alma mater.
Also, asking for a friend. That's the story I am sticking to here.
April 17th, 2016 at 12:14 PM ^
I will be extremely disappointed if the school or football program associates itself or collaborates in any manner whatsoever with "TB12" and Brady's shyster/fraud/snake-oil salesman of a partner Alex Guerrero: http://deadspin.com/heres-how-tom-brady-pushes-his-sketchy-body-guru-on-peo-1735747044
Really hope this doesn't happen, and not pleased to see it mentioned as a possibility yet again.
April 17th, 2016 at 12:23 PM ^
Wow, I didn't know about this. Hopefully the UM adminsitration is careful. Sounds shady.
edit: he apparently marketed a drink to "prevent concussions". WUT
April 17th, 2016 at 12:35 PM ^
I don't really see the problem. It's not like this guy is going to be in Ann Arbor.
There's a reason Brady is 37 years old and plays like he's 30.
April 17th, 2016 at 12:46 PM ^
Just a hunch, might have something to do with this....
Not jorts.
But they're awesome nonetheless.
April 17th, 2016 at 12:55 PM ^
that you can breathe again.
Unfortunately, the entire field of Athletic/Performance is incredibly susceptible to fraud/scamming.
So is the entire field of Medicine/Psychology.
But, the "sports" and "body-building" aspects tend to attract quick-fixes and bro-scientists. As the universities have catered to taking as much money and confering as many degrees, instead of maintaining intellectual (which for some reason is a dirty word these days) rigor and scholarly commitment.
Reading those emails in the article above... Wow what a life that man lead's.
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