Clemson is building the most insane football facility I have ever seen

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Come inside, take a tour & see where some awesome features will go in our new Football Operations Facility. #Clemsonhttps://t.co/Yn6I8Inpr5

— Clemson Football (@ClemsonFB) August 8, 2016
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Magnus

August 7th, 2016 at 11:10 PM ^

Any homeless guy with an HD camera and a little video editing experience could turn his Hooverville into an awesome facility.

Get back to me when they have actual walls and something other than mud for floors.

Damn southerners don't know a state-of-the-art football facility from a hole in the ground...

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UMxWolverines

August 8th, 2016 at 12:23 AM ^

Cumong man. I understand the need for upgrades to facilities as many of ours needed them badly, but why this? From 3 and out and Endzone it sure doesn't sound like our football players had much free time except on weekends, and they weren't even being coached well!

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Prince Lover

August 8th, 2016 at 12:25 AM ^

But didn't Harbaugh just come in and take out a bunch of stuff from Schembechler last year? Two different approaches, I guess. And I kind of like JH's better.

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travesty

August 8th, 2016 at 12:38 AM ^

Extra Benefits (NCAA Bylaw 16.02.3)
An extra benefit is any special arrangement by an institutional employee or a representative of the institution's athletics interests to provide a student-athlete or student-athlete's relative or friend a benefit not expressly authorized by NCAA legislation. Receipt of a benefit by the student-athlete or the student-athletes' relatives or friends is not a violation of NCAA legislation if it is demonstrated that the same benefit is generally available to the institution's students or their relatives or friends or to a particular segment of the student body determined on a basis unrelated to athletics.

http://www.clemsontigers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=205504330

The NCAA is a joke.

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bsgriffin1

August 8th, 2016 at 1:17 AM ^

So will probably be kewwlll** once finished

Just wondering what the compare/contrast is to/ stack up with UM's facilities are?

Edit: on mobile and on repeat.

Edit: Also curious on how that stacks up to Alabama, Florida/State, USC, Oregon, OSU, Texas, etc

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Big Boutros

August 8th, 2016 at 1:45 AM ^

If we have to build one of these to compete, we can and we will. Michigan's endowment is 22 times that of Clemson. $11 billion in the coffers and $160 million in athletic department revenue before the Jumpman deal.

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drawdown400

August 8th, 2016 at 6:06 AM ^

Seems like this will serve two purposes....keeps players in a controlled environment (i.e., out of trouble) and also furthers the separation between football players and the general student population at power 5 schools. I think only time will tell the consequences of sheltering and isolating players like this....sad, IMO

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WorldwideTJRob

August 8th, 2016 at 7:51 AM ^

True but aren't there plenty of "entitled" students walking around in the general student population? This won't change things much in my opinion. There will be the same amount of football players who are down to earth and the same amount who act like jerks. Those are more of a product of how you are raised not the fact that the football facility has a movie theater and a putt-putt golf course.



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drawdown400

August 8th, 2016 at 8:16 AM ^

Maybe you're right, I was more thinking that the players won't get the chance to mature during college if they live in such a cushy fairly tale. Maybe it'll work out for the well-rounded guys and the nfl-bound players but, for everyone else, it seems like being babied and sheltered will be detrimental to their maturity and long term success in adulthood. Of course, Clemson is not the only team to spoil its players (cough jump man cough) but it seems like Clemson has no interest in even pretending to balance good fortune with excess.

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drawdown400

August 8th, 2016 at 1:32 PM ^

Well to me it seems like the facility is meant to keep the players - and only the players - there as much as possible, therefore limiting their exposure to other experiences, people, etc....and at least for me, i matured a lot in college thanks to the diversity of experiences I had and the diversity of people I met over those 4 years. But yeah I can see how that might be a stretch. Just my immediate reaction I guess.

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