Inside college football’s latest facilities craze: the football-only complex

BMF

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This is a good read on the "football only" facilities going in around the country. Done by the Tampa paper, so it touches on UF and USF (which is raising money for a facility that will be 30,000sf bigger than ours. The 2nd link is the story from March 2018 about our proposed facility:

Inside college football’s latest facilities craze: the football-only complex

Inside college football’s latest facilities craze: the football-only complex

A virtual tour of some football-only facilities
Clemson



Opened: 2017

Cost: $55 million

Size: 142,000 square feet

Notable feature: A slide from the second floor to the first — an idea from coach Dabo Swinney

"It's super easy for them to hop on the slide, go down to the locker room, grab their stuff, and they're out on the field. It's something that the kids use…They really do. That was all Dabo." — Nate Appleman, Director of Sports, Recreation and Entertainment at design firm HOK

Texas A&M



Renovated: 2014

Cost: $20.8 million

Renovated space: 36,000 square feet

Notable feature: TVs embedded in the bathroom mirrors, a request from then-coach Kevin Sumlin

"That will maybe get the guys to spend one more minute or two more minutes there…Coach Sumlin kept stressing, not all these guys are going to go pro in football. But hygiene, how they maintain their personal wellbeing is key." — Vito Privitera, senior project designer at HNTB

Kentucky



Opened: 2016

Cost: $45 million

Size: 145,000 square feet

Notable feature: Immersive video display of players running out of the tunnel

"The way the content is shot, it makes you feel like you're standing in the middle of the team as the team is running out on the field. Five years ago, six years ago when somebody asked to be able to do that, either the technology wasn't there, or it would be so cost prohibitive, it would just be cut from the budget." — Jeff Volk, vice president of Alpha Video Sports & Entertainment Group





Florida Gators reveal updated plans for $65 million football complex

Florida Gators reveal updated plans for $65 million football complex
 

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I probably won't live long enough to see the Football Complex completed.....:sadnanner:
 

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I probably won't live long enough to see the Football Complex completed.....:sadnanner:

All kidding aside, it's 3+ years away.....lots of Gator fans won't see it (hell, a few coaches probably won't see it).
 

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