I hear this term dropped all the time.

What defines good? What defines a facility? Square footage of weight rooms? Quality staffed medical, training, and therapy facilities? If you have a good baseball stadium but you're using outdated weight equipment, do you still have good facilities?

Just my opinion...(football)

But recruits seem to focus on:

How nice / large the weight room is.
How nice the locker room is.
How large/nice the stadium is.

Outside of that... not sure how much recruits care about a nice Hall of Fame, coaches offices, etc.

How hot the girls are

If elevators will take them to their specific room.

(03-04-2014 04:40 PM)Pony94 Wrote:  How hot the girls are

This car wash has good facilities.

Aesthetically pleasing? Idk.

Whenever I say "Good facilities" i'm thinking weight room, size of stadium, capacity to host big games, looks, functionality, etc...pretty much "do I like what they've got going on or no."

Am I the only one who gets thoroughly annoyed whenever I see Penn States stadium? All of the other 100k+ stadiums look a million times better. DKR looked horrible pre-expansion. So did Bryant-Denny. They've at least tried to make it look better though.

Whatever the Jones have and we don't, when it comes to fundraising.

Or whatever we have and rivals don't, when it comes to recruiting.

The big state schools started the facilities race to have the biggest and best 20 years ago, and it hasn't slowed down. BCS money allowed them to amp it up, and it is a huge part of recruiting. When a recruit comes to campus and starts comparing school choices, facilities are a huge part of it.

The size of the venue only helps if you are filling it up. The most important part IMO is amenities. Does your school have what other schools have. Practice facilities, luxury locker room, great weight room etc. The football stadium and basketball arena need to be fairly new or remodeled.

That would be my interpretation of good facilities. The good news is that every school in this conference has been upgrading facilities. You really can't compete without them.

Pirate1 gets the award for POTD

in conference realignment there is only one type of facility that matters ==> the football stadium

but a school having good facilities in general means it will be more competitive. student-athlete buildings on campus. indoor-outdoor practice facilities. all of those for football/basketball give a school a recruiting boost

personally i don't think much of a school that has a really nice baseball stadium or stuff like that. but is is reflective of the overall strength of a school and the strength of that particular program.

in terms of ranking the facilities by importance

football
1. stadium
2. indoor practice field (optional)
3. football building (optional)
4. student athlete building
5. outdoor practice field

i didn't include weight room because it is usually included in one of the above

basketball
1. basketball building w/ practice facility(optional)
2. basketball building (optional)
3. basketball arena
4. practice facility (optional)
5. student athlete building

http://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/2013/co...ker-rooms/

Here are more picks of

Players Lounges

Indoor Practice Facilities

and freaking Hydrotherapy Rooms

These P5 facilities will only get better. The hydrotherapy rooms are f**cking ridiculous!!!

Good facilities are impossible to define and vary by sport but you will recognize them when you see them.

USF used to have TERRIBLE facilities across all our sports. Now we have great facilities in terms of size, features, amenities, aesthetics and functionality in all sports including football.

USF's baseball & softball stadium are amongst the best looking and well designed facilities in the State of Florida. The team has dedicated meeting space, modern batting cages, video rooms and for fans that stadium design has great covered, chairback seating along with beautiful large screen video board. Ditto for softball.

In Basketball, the total package of a brand new arena with all the bells & whistles and dedicated practices facilities for both men and women are almost unmatched in the state of florida. UF has been down several times to visit our facilities to see what they can do with their twin sister O'Connell Center.

USF has a great soccer stadium as deemed by almost every visiting soccer coach that visits. It has a unique up-close-and-personal design that mixes traditional chairback seating with often time standing room only berm seating to create as nice a college soccer environment that you will find around the country. It's certainly does not have a high school-like chainlink/aluminum bench type of feel.

Golf -- USF has it's own 18-hole championship-style course and a brand new team meeting, training and practice facility for both men's and women's team. Plus with the course literally right across the street from campus the team doesn't have to travel far for practice as other programs need to do.

Football -- USF's football building is very nice and constantly being upgraded. We have three beautiful practice fields including a turf field that match anything built around the country. There is a dedicated nutrition center for all athletics...but mostly dedicated to football in terms of the large # of players compared to other sports. An FSU-style $13-$14-million dollar indoor practice facility is in the works and should break ground over the next 12-months. The uncertainty created by our AD's sudden "retirement" may delay this project from what I hear. The only thing that is lacking a football stadium. Some USF fans need to get over the idea that we need an NFL style stadium and look more toward what has been built at Houston as more of a model. However, while USF eventually would like to play on campus, playing at Raymond James has allowed us to build great facilities for other sports and we consequently have never had the operational need to build our own stadium as UCF, who was basically being evicted from the old Citrus Bowl and had little options short of playing in Daytona Beach.

Tennis -- they are one of the last olympics sports waiting for an upgrade but have received a sizeable gift recently to start pursuing planned upgrades.

Track&Field -- USF overhauled the facility with help of the county and this is a dedicated facility now that soccer got it's own digs.

Overall, folks are blown away at the athletic buildings on campus and the final piece of the puzzle are the upcoming IPF and far-away OCS.

At Houston, everything except Hofheinz Pavilion is new from 1995:

Athletics Alumni Center/Yeoman Fieldhouse (1995)
Coaches offices
Weight room (largest in college sports)
Training/Sports Medicine
Lockerrooms
Academic rooms
Film study rooms
Auditorium
Indoor Track (will be upgraded soon)
Volleyball facility

Football Stadium (2014)

Football practice fields (2013)
One turf, one grass. Planning to convert turf field into indoor practice facility with a bubble over it.

Cougar Baseball Field (1995)
Several updates through the years from a new scoreboard in 2007 to new artificial turf in 2014

Tennis (1995)
Working on a new tennis facility in conjunction with the Zina Garrison Tennis Academy.

Cougar Softball Field (2002)
Getting new seats in April

Carl Lewis Outdoor Track Stadium (1999)
Will be replacing track soon

Basketball Practice Facility (2015)
Breaking ground in May on $20M facility

Natatorium (2003)

Dave Williams Golf Academy (2012)

Hofheinz Pavilion (1970)
Planning ~$40M renovation after basketball practice facility complete

All told, when Hofheinz gets done we will have spent approximately $300M (adjusted for 2014 dollars) on athletic facilities since 1995.