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 1:36 PM ^
Let's not challenge Rutgers to be more embarrassing than anybody. Never make a wish something something.
September 25th, 2017 at 1:44 PM ^
whoa whoa whoa - more embarrassing than Rutgers? C'mon now.
September 25th, 2017 at 3:14 PM ^
I'd say no AC in the lockerrom is more embarrassing than Rutgers putting hot tub in the student section of the stadium
September 25th, 2017 at 3:30 PM ^
No, you would not say that.
September 25th, 2017 at 3:14 PM ^
I'd say no AC in the lockerrom is more embarrassing than Rutgers putting a hot tub in the student section of the stadium
September 25th, 2017 at 3:31 PM ^
I stand corrected. You would say that.
September 25th, 2017 at 7:03 PM ^
Hah! Dont know why it posted twice.
September 25th, 2017 at 1:32 PM ^
Good for Harbaugh on calling the situation for what it is. An embarrassment. Purdue is a Big Ten school. They're not the SCLSU Mud Dogs. Can't tell me it's not in the budget to have some fucking A/C running through the building. Had someone feinted or worse, even gotten a heat stroke, that's all on Purdue.
If it was accidental and the A/C unit just went out, then so be it. Bad timing but it happens. Just get someone out there to fix it. If it was a deliberate attempt to give Michigan a disadvantage, then I hope the AD is getting his ass out to a press conference right now to issue Michigan a public apology.
An act like that, if it was deliberate, is just downright classless and despicable. Bush league shit. If you have to resort to pettiness like that, you don't belong on the same field as your opponent.
September 25th, 2017 at 1:52 PM ^
if the a/c was busted, the locker was likely too small to put in those mister/fans. ice bags for everyone!!
September 25th, 2017 at 1:41 PM ^
Before we all go casting aspersions here, I feel safe in presuming that Michigan's visitors' locker room has a proper HVAC setup, right?
September 25th, 2017 at 1:56 PM ^
It is literally across the hall from the M locker room. It's not fancy, but it's functional.
September 25th, 2017 at 2:48 PM ^
Figured as much, just wanted to be sure.
September 25th, 2017 at 4:35 PM ^
Check out the books by Jon Falk. It was one of the many tasks he had during his team. Being sure the visiting team had the basic things one would expect - it isn't a hotel but it isn't some bush league stuff like this - otherwise we'll be back to the days, when the team will suit up at the hotel, and then go to the game, and then go back to the hotel to change. It is simply embarassing for Purdue - modern facilities often have multiple uses and so having decent lockerrooms would be a plus.
Consider that Michigan Stadium has hosted multiple international friendly matches between some of the greatest soccer clubs in the world - Real Madrid, Manchester United, Chelsea, etc. Michigan was always praised for the good facilities, and professional set up - they just wish we had a wider natural turf field - if we did it would be a certain that if the World Cup returns to the US, Ann Arbor would get a look for a game.
The medical issue is the most troubling. Even little kid leagues have rules stipulating some type of medical personnel be present at a game, usually a nurse, NP, PA or doctor. And somehow these teams nearly all comply. That Purdue can't figure out how to do this is pretty embarassing.
I get the whole "we've always done ok doing this since 19xx" argument, but times change. Kids today who tear up a knee aren't looking at a lifelong limp or even ending their careers. So, it is not unreasonable that there are some basic minimum standard.
Purdue visits here in 2020.
September 25th, 2017 at 5:18 PM ^
September 25th, 2017 at 1:55 PM ^
Purdue intends to upgrade the visitor locker room in the future.
No excuse not to have A/C, ventilation, clean and serviceable bathrooms, medical tables and equipment
Article about Purdue University's intentions to upgrade its football facilities and comments by Athletic Director Mike Bobinski:LInk: http://www.jconline.com/story/sports/2017/07/14/more-purdue-football-facility-projects-upcoming/479847001/
Completed Projects:
1. $65M football performance facility (DONE, opened in August)
2. New stadium lights (DONE, finished in August)
NEW PROJECTS:
1. South end zone project ($300M)
2. An updated game day locker room inside Ross-Ade Stadium for Purdue football team ($2 to $4M dollars)
Once the performance facility opens, the football team will vacate their current locker room on the first floor of the Brees Academic Performance Center. That area will be converted into a new and improved academic space.
The Boilermakers currently use an area underneath the east side of Ross-Ade Stadium during pregame and halftime.
Looking long term, the newly created game day locker room will be converted into the visiting team locker room once the south end zone project is completed.
“While we want to make it functional, we don’t want to make it overly nice,” Bobinski said, laughing.
“We want to create a space that works and accommodates our team.”
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September 25th, 2017 at 2:50 PM ^
liable for targeting is a ridiculous suggestion. Way over the top.
September 25th, 2017 at 3:27 PM ^
Bolivia!
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September 25th, 2017 at 4:23 PM ^
#letssuetheirass
September 25th, 2017 at 3:41 PM ^
September 25th, 2017 at 4:01 PM ^
Really not sure why they didn't.
Purdue had ref attention even before the hit on Wilton. Am I remembering that correctly?
Chip block and PI penalties?
If not - they had their attention for the rest of the game for sure
September 25th, 2017 at 5:20 PM ^
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September 25th, 2017 at 2:03 PM ^
pink locker room -- OK. Stuff that affects health and well-being of athletes before, during and after game is unsat. Be nice to have a commissioer with cojones who could issue a one-paragraph edict to that effect this afternoon. Purdue embarrased itself, and if they one save themselves, Delaney should do it for them.
September 25th, 2017 at 2:06 PM ^
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September 25th, 2017 at 2:30 PM ^
I found multiple sources saying they built a new 'nicer' locker room for visitors in 1985 and at least then Notre Dame coach Gerry Faust mentioned that locker rom had air conditioning.
Did he remember it wrongly or what happened to that A/C since 1985?
September 25th, 2017 at 2:50 PM ^
The latter may be true, but it feels odd. Purdue's hosted plenty of September day games before (including one vs. Cincinnati that I was at in 2016 - sunny and 85 that day. Not quite as hot as Saturday but certainly close). That issue seemingly would have come up before.
If the A/C is broken ... yes, Purdue needs to find a way to fix that before the game. The hoops arena is right there, even use that as a "locker room for today" if absolutely necessary. It's fundamentally unfair for one team to have A/C and the other team not to.
As for a small locker room ... that's part of playing on the road - you don't have the same "creature comforts" as at home. I don't think that falls under the "fundamentally unfair" bucket.
September 25th, 2017 at 3:20 PM ^
Does it matter? WTF is Purdue doing with the ~$20M in cash from the B1G?
Brohm and his staff are 2nd rate jokes and he will get fired from his next job at his next school (fallen non B1G P5 school that "deserves" to be in the Top 10, but isn't).
September 25th, 2017 at 3:28 PM ^
if Purdue hasn't had A/C there for 30 years ...... it's just odd it's never come up prior.
Seems like a "known issue" that would have gotten on Jim Delany's radar at some point during his 28-year reign as commissioner. ("Hey Morgan Burke, it's Jim Delany. Spend $10,000 and find a way to air condition that visitors locker room, or else I'll need to take action myself. We have standards here in the Big Ten. Good bye.")
September 25th, 2017 at 7:53 PM ^
September 25th, 2017 at 2:41 PM ^
Here's the frustrating thig: a portable air conditioner is fairly cheap to rent. $1000 or so. They're pretty big, and often arrive and operate on a flatbed truck. Wedding receptions often use them to air condition outdoor TENTS.
Easy short term fix....
https://www.sunbeltrentals.com
September 26th, 2017 at 9:56 AM ^
You wouldn't need anything even close to that size. A standard portable AC unit would be more than sufficient. They cost less than a grand.
September 25th, 2017 at 2:41 PM ^
September 25th, 2017 at 2:44 PM ^
I've always thought this stupid stuff probably has the reverse effect most of the time. Michigan was pissed when they came out, was that really your intent, Purdue?
The Visitor's locker room at Michigan Stadium should be like my great-aunt's house: lots of overstuffed armchairs and TVs that only get the Hallmark Channel. Put out a bunch of tiny cookies and petit fours with some nice lukewarm tea. In the center: a huge mural of an apple-cheeked boy thieving a pie off an old pull-cart. A bowl of ten-year-old hard candy would be a nice touch.
I never walked out of there with any anger or energy, mostly just stupefied malaise.
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September 25th, 2017 at 3:01 PM ^
just saw him and that no nothing blonde he has on his show, and of coarse they both agree that harbaugh is stupid and has no right complaining about it because, who does he think he is? she went as far as to say if he doesn`t like it he should contribute money to getting them fixed.
September 25th, 2017 at 3:16 PM ^
September 25th, 2017 at 4:14 PM ^
/Not really serious
September 25th, 2017 at 6:19 PM ^
retarded is a real word with a real meaning that doesn`t have to be applied to a person, which in this case it wasn`t.
September 25th, 2017 at 3:38 PM ^
September 25th, 2017 at 4:55 PM ^
"If he doesn't like it he should contribute money to getting it fixed"
Uhh, he is. Pretty sure it's not Purdue driving the huge TV contracts and bowl payouts that the league shares amongst its members.