Harbaugh rips poor facilities at Purdue
Harbaugh -- will do for visiting team "standard of care for the visitors" on multiple levels.....this is coming off Purdue game...
— angelique (@chengelis) September 25, 2017
Harbaugh "gamesmanship that is not sportsmanlike....locker rooms too small" no ac, no heat
— angelique (@chengelis) September 25, 2017
Harbaugh -- "gamesmanship should cease at the line of health and safety for the players"
— angelique (@chengelis) September 25, 2017
Harbaugh says it's not just Purdue, but he's absolutely blasting Ross Ade facilities. Said training table looked like it was from 1920s.
— Matt Pargoff (@MaizeBlueNews) September 25, 2017Harbaugh wishes he had taken a picture of injury table at Purdue.
— Adam Biggers (@AdamBiggers81) September 25, 2017
"I mean, it looked it was from the '20s," had rips/tearsUrban Meyer agrees that that "Absolutely" there should be a standard for visiting locker room facilities etc. for programs in Big Ten.
— Tim May (@TIM_MAYsports) September 25, 2017
Purdue owes @CoachJim4UM an apology. This is embarrassing.
— Hammer & Rails (@HammerAndRails) September 25, 2017
September 25th, 2017 at 1:54 PM ^
Pink paint... That's just funny! Good on Iowa for that!
At least that pink lockerroom is spacious enough, has heat and AC, and is capable of taking care of medical emergencies on site.
September 25th, 2017 at 3:00 PM ^
September 25th, 2017 at 1:18 PM ^
Tangentially related - was a little thrown off that Speight had to leave the stadium to get his examination and x-rays.
Feel like there is a full list of updates the stadium needs related to player health.
September 25th, 2017 at 1:19 PM ^
I want to know who needed the brace.
Please no more injuries!
September 25th, 2017 at 1:38 PM ^
September 25th, 2017 at 1:56 PM ^
Right? Did they not even have a decent ambulance available? Every ambulance has neck and back braces as part of standard furniture. WTH?
September 25th, 2017 at 2:10 PM ^
No. He rode to the medical center in a van FFS.
September 25th, 2017 at 5:20 PM ^
September 25th, 2017 at 2:09 PM ^
Speight, for his neck, if you read between the lines, especially since he had to ride in a van while injured. I'd want a brace too.
September 25th, 2017 at 1:18 PM ^
we know that the budget overwhelmingly went into the weight room.
September 25th, 2017 at 4:18 PM ^
and in the community.
September 25th, 2017 at 1:18 PM ^
That wasn't a rant at all...in fact, that was +1 Informative.
September 25th, 2017 at 2:11 PM ^
Angelique tweeted later she had been corrected. It was not a rant.
September 25th, 2017 at 1:19 PM ^
No AC doesn't seem that big to me.
In this day and age though, no X-ray machines/medical facilities on site seems real bad.
September 25th, 2017 at 1:25 PM ^
90degrees outside having no AC in the locker room is a big deal. Probably no windows so the locker room may have been hotter than 90.
September 25th, 2017 at 1:29 PM ^
I think no AC is a pretty big deal... That's like high school level shit. Some nice high schools even have better air ventilation.
September 25th, 2017 at 4:15 PM ^
There is not an x-ray machine in Michigan Stadium. There is its equivalent in Schembechler Hall. He probably needed an MRI to diagnose the "soft tissue thing" though.
September 25th, 2017 at 1:19 PM ^
from football games and direct them for design and development of a visiting team locker room at that high school level football stadium they play in.
Perhaps a few graduate level engineering students could design the locker room in a directed study course.
September 25th, 2017 at 1:22 PM ^
The A-C thing was utterly classless and downright dangerous. Good for Harbaugh on calling it out.
One more reason to be happy about pasting the Boilermakers in the second half.
September 25th, 2017 at 1:23 PM ^
About 5 of us went to the game. Pre-game we hung out watching players run on and off the field for warm ups and then stood around to see the team afterwards as they got on their busses. Here's what I noticed:
- FIrst, the locker rooms is an actual, stand alone building just outside of the stadium. I was surprised by how tiny it was.
- Several players were standing outside of the building in the shade.
- There was a big ice box, like you'd see at a gas station to put bags of ice in, right outside their locker room.
- The way that the horse-shoe stadum was set up was a bit weird. There used to be small bleachers in the open end, but now its kinda set up like a beer garden. But on either side of the beer garden were entrances into the stadium, and the only way people could get to their seats were the same entrances the players used. When the players entered the field, they literally had to stop fans from entering the building. I almost got stuck in these lines as they closed down the entrance just before kickoff....there hundreds of people who didn't get to their seats until mid-first quarter.
- It was hot. There was an announcement over the PA that Purdue had 4 watering stations around the building, for free. My brother went just before kickoff to fill up a water bottle and it was empty.
- they announced that if somebody was having a heat related emergency to look for people in yellow shirts for help.....
- After the game, a few hundered of us waited outside the locker room building for the players to come out to get on the busses. There wasn't a rope line or any security presence outside the stadium gates....and the players, coaches, and staff wandered through us to get on the busses. It led to a bunch of cool high-fives and great picture opportunities, but seemed a bit sketch for security sake.
- As we were walking back to our cars, we walked by the officials all getting into their cars. Just in a random parking lot.
September 25th, 2017 at 1:26 PM ^
What you describe there literally resembles what my high school was like.... and my high school had a sub-par athletics park to put it politely.
Separate and small building for a locker room, empty water coolers, officials getting into their cars in a random parking lot near the field. Brought me back to my HS soccer days. Absolutely embarassing this is a D1 university in the B1G.
September 25th, 2017 at 1:28 PM ^
And oh by the way, Harbaugh didn't bring up this classy move by Purdue.
If I was Michigan, I'd run it up on these clowns for putting the dumpster next to the locker room. The smell is awful.
— Eric Upchurch (@EUpchurchPhoto) September 23, 2017
September 25th, 2017 at 1:30 PM ^
Wow. This continues to look worse for Purdue. Although we "only" won by 18, Purdue going 0/13 on third down attempts and achieving like 10 yards of offense in the second half is a good enough ass-kicking for me. Shame on them.
September 25th, 2017 at 1:31 PM ^
I did get to chat with Upchurch right before the game, right outside the stadium. That was a win!
September 25th, 2017 at 3:23 PM ^
very high school-ish.
Their old south end zone bleachers ------ I don't know how those things weren't condemened at a point. I was at a game there in 2012 and there were - literally - kids running around underneath.
Don't forget: they had a sinkhole form in the middle of the field last October! Luckily for them, they didn't have a home game for another couple weeks.
September 25th, 2017 at 1:24 PM ^
Remove Purdue from the B1G and strip Robbie Hummel of his remaining three years of eligibility.
September 25th, 2017 at 1:38 PM ^
I would drop you 25 pts because Hummel. Does he still have a redshirt to burn?
September 25th, 2017 at 3:05 PM ^
Brian Cardinal's last two years as well.
September 25th, 2017 at 1:24 PM ^
Really bad look for Purdue. When I saw a tweet during the game on Saturday stating they had to drive Speight in a fucking van to a nearby facility to get a simple X-Ray, I knew the standards in West Lafayette just weren't where they needed to be. What a shame.
September 25th, 2017 at 4:17 PM ^
There isnt an x-ray machine in Michigan Stadium either. There is one in Schembechler Hall. How would one get there from Michigan Stadium. How would they get there? Maybe a van?
September 25th, 2017 at 4:31 PM ^
Maybe a 3 minute drive?
September 25th, 2017 at 5:03 PM ^
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September 25th, 2017 at 1:26 PM ^
Lots of teams have bitched about Iowa's pink locker room, but nothing's ever been done. Childish shit.
September 25th, 2017 at 1:28 PM ^
I also think the pink locker room is petty since it is trying to impact the opposing team psychologically, but Purdue's conditions are literally unsafe for the players. I think Purdue's situation is much, much worse than the dumb shit they pull off at Kinnick.
September 25th, 2017 at 1:34 PM ^
September 25th, 2017 at 1:50 PM ^
Having no x-ray ability on site or improper equipment to administer medical care is dangerous.
September 25th, 2017 at 4:21 PM ^
There is not an x-ray machine at Michigan Stadium either. Nor TCF Bank Stadium in Minnesota. There is a fluorscope at Schembechler Hall but no MRI machine which is what would be needed to diagnose "soft tissue" things.
September 25th, 2017 at 1:33 PM ^
Someone should just paint it one day. Have GAs go in and throw Blue paint everywhere.
Leave a check for whatever small amount it would be to repaint it.
September 25th, 2017 at 4:31 PM ^
And then every time the Hawkeyes come to town, you can expect the visitors' locker room at the Big House to be painted black and gold when they arrive and then pink on their way out the door to leave for Iowa City.
September 25th, 2017 at 1:55 PM ^
Didn't Michigan hang flags and banners all over the walls and ceiling last year to "redecorate" the pink locker room?
September 25th, 2017 at 1:56 PM ^
Couldn't hide the color of the actual locker though.
September 25th, 2017 at 2:18 PM ^
Covering up the pink has been going on since the Schembechler days.
Bo would make the coaching staff cover every inch of pink with newspaper, wrapping paper and anything else they could get their hands on before the team ever stepped foot in there.
I assume Moeller and Carr continued that but I don't remember them talking about it that much.
September 25th, 2017 at 2:46 PM ^
The pink locker room is good gamesmanship. It doesn't affect player safety and has no real impact on the game. Opposing teams make it a bigger deal than it really is. Like how Michigan covered it in posters last year. That was more of a distraction than leaving it pink. It's just a locker room. It only has power when you give it power.
September 25th, 2017 at 5:27 PM ^
September 25th, 2017 at 4:04 PM ^
is just a shtick. It's funny really, and has nothing to do with the health and safety of the players.
September 25th, 2017 at 1:27 PM ^
I've seen better facilities and overall gameday environment at several MAC schools. Purdue is an embarrassment.
September 25th, 2017 at 1:50 PM ^
they just recently refurbished it.
September 25th, 2017 at 1:32 PM ^