Time for the B1G to spend some of that big money they're getting for the benefit of players.

http://www.espn.com/college-football/sto...facilities

Quote:He also said he wants Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany and other head coaches to establish a better standard for visiting team facilities inside stadiums around the conference to make sure that player safety was put above "gamesmanship."

"I wish I would've taken a picture of the actual table that is given to the visitors to put players on when they're injured," Harbaugh said. "It looked like it was from the '20s. It's ripped. It's just not good. I think that's a pattern in the Big Ten."

After three seasons of visiting other Big Ten stadiums, Harbaugh said he felt that some teams made conscious efforts to provide lousy accommodations to give the home team an advantage on the field. He said the Big Ten has been worse in this regard than his experience in the Pac-12 and defensive coordinator Don Brown's experience in the ACC. He called Purdue's locker room unsanitary and "unsportsmanlike."

"It's 2017," Harbaugh said. "There have been advancements, and our stadiums need to reflect that. Visiting locker rooms need to reflect that. Gamesmanship should cease at the line of health and safety for the players."

Michigan gave its players an option to sit on the team bus prior to kickoff at Purdue on an unseasonably warm Saturday because the bus, unlike their locker room, had air conditioning.

"It was such a tight, cramped environment," Harbaugh said. "You have to do open the doors to get some kind of ventilation going in a very small area. People are walking by and watching you dress. The number of urinals or bathrooms for the players and staff, I think there were two. There's not even a private door around [the bathroom area]."

Harbaugh said he hopes his program can help spearhead an initiative to make sure that Big Ten teams are doing a better job of taking care of their guests. Harbaugh and Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel discussed what upgrades their stadium needed this weekend to try to make sure Michigan could "lead the way" in those efforts.

"What can we do to make sure that ours is as good as well and come up with a whole protocol of what the standard should look like and hope all the teams follow it, request that they do," Harbaugh said. "Together we should be able to do this.


"I urge my fellow coaches to weigh in as well and get their thoughts. I think it's something we can all agree on."

Harbaugh said he hoped that Delany would address the issue immediately.

All that damn money from the B10 media contract and Purdue can't upgrade the visitor's locker room?

Kinda torn on this one. Harbaugh's a known entitled jack***, and where's the other complaints about Purdue over the years, but...we know Purdue runs everything on the cheap.

Quote:He said the Big Ten has been worse in this regard than his experience in the Pac-12 and defensive coordinator Don Brown's experience in the ACC.

Brown must have never coached a game at Wallace Wade.

This is extremely disrespectful and honestly the Big Ten should fine him for this.

(09-25-2017 03:32 PM)Gamecock Wrote:  This is extremely disrespectful and honestly the Big Ten should fine him for this.

You should be thankful y'all didn't play Michigan at home on the 16th. Harbaugh might have got a coronary had he been unable to flush the toilet.

This complaint is freakin' hilarious. Let me tell ole' Jim about the quality of non-revenue sport facilities in the MAC. That would probably cause him to break down and cry.

My guess is that if there was an air-conditioned coaches office with a private shitter we'd have heard nothing of this.....

"Unsanitary and "unsportsmanlike ... He said the Big Ten has been worse in this regard than his experience in the Pac-12"

This is Oregon's visitor locker room. Purdue's must be an absolute shithole to be a downgrade from this.

(09-25-2017 03:44 PM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  My guess is that if there was an air-conditioned coaches office with a private shitter we'd have heard nothing of this.....

Yup, the kids could just get one of those urinal walls like they used to have at Veterans Stadium...utterly disgusting, but, you know...the king would still have his own throne.

He's a pampered, overly-privileged ***. This isn't about the kids.

(09-25-2017 02:41 PM)The Cutter of Bish Wrote:  Kinda torn on this one. Harbaugh's a known entitled jack***, and where's the other complaints about Purdue over the years, but...we know Purdue runs everything on the cheap.

In this case, I read entitled as educated.

(09-25-2017 03:42 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  

(09-25-2017 03:32 PM)Gamecock Wrote:  This is extremely disrespectful and honestly the Big Ten should fine him for this.

You should be thankful y'all didn't play Michigan at home on the 16th. Harbaugh might have got a coronary had he been unable to flush the toilet.

The area around WB has come a longggg way but the stadium itself has been neglected for years.

(09-25-2017 02:27 PM)CliftonAve Wrote:  All that damn money from the B10 media contract and Purdue can't upgrade the visitor's locker room?

Last time I was there was a ND game. Hope was the coach. The visitors locker room seemed to be what looked like a temporary structure SW of the visitors section open end zone. It looked really small also.

(09-25-2017 04:18 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  Last time I was there was a ND game. Hope was the coach. The visitors locker room seemed to be what looked like a temporary structure SW of the visitors section open end zone. It looked really small also.

Still the case --- I was in West Lafayette for 2 games in 2016. Cincinnati and Penn State.

Honestly, the whole set-up at Purdue is high school-like. It's incredible that it took them until 2015 to get rid of their south end zone bleachers. Those things should have been condemned!

Hopefully Mike Bobinski does better than Morgan Burke (a well-known cheapskate) did. Purdue has money, and it's 2017. HVAC is basically a standard in 2017.

(09-25-2017 02:47 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  

Quote:He said the Big Ten has been worse in this regard than his experience in the Pac-12 and defensive coordinator Don Brown's experience in the ACC.

Brown must have never coached a game at Wallace Wade.

Didn't they just update the stadium?

(09-25-2017 04:24 PM)Nittany_Bearcat Wrote:  

(09-25-2017 04:18 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  Last time I was there was a ND game. Hope was the coach. The visitors locker room seemed to be what looked like a temporary structure SW of the visitors section open end zone. It looked really small also.

Still the case --- I was in West Lafayette for 2 games in 2016. Cincinnati and Penn State.

Honestly, the whole set-up at Purdue is high school-like. It's incredible that it took them until 2015 to get rid of their south end zone bleachers. Those things should have been condemned!

Hopefully Mike Bobinski does better than Morgan Burke did.

They also need to get rid of those crappy soviet looking apartments just across from the home side.

(09-25-2017 04:24 PM)TexanMark Wrote:  

(09-25-2017 02:47 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  

Quote:He said the Big Ten has been worse in this regard than his experience in the Pac-12 and defensive coordinator Don Brown's experience in the ACC.

Brown must have never coached a game at Wallace Wade.

Didn't they just update the stadium?

To my knowledge they didn't add in-stadium visitor's locker rooms. Pretty sure they were put in the new football building on the other side of the practice field from the stadium meaning you still had a 100+ yard walk from the stadium to the locker rooms at halftime.

(09-25-2017 04:33 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  

Eh --- look no worse than the Nittany Apartments on-campus at Penn State. The latter just aren't right next to Beaver Stadium.

I sort of feel those types of apartments are standard around college campuses.

(09-25-2017 03:49 PM)The Cutter of Bish Wrote:  

(09-25-2017 03:44 PM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  My guess is that if there was an air-conditioned coaches office with a private shitter we'd have heard nothing of this.....

Yup, the kids could just get one of those urinal walls like they used to have at Veterans Stadium...utterly disgusting, but, you know...the king would still have his own throne.

He's a pampered, overly-privileged ***. This isn't about the kids.

I would like just take this on face value, normally. But, this is that well know *******, Jim Harbaugh. Usually, whatever he is for...I am against, and visa versa.

One, I think it's hilarious that he's complaining about this when Bo Schembechler once yelled at his team shortly after taking because they complained about their home locker room being a dump. Two, something tells me that Michigan might find some rusty nails and the heater accidentally turned on for their next road game a few weeks from now at IU.

I'm surprised Duke is still allowed to get away with their middle school setup, you'd think the ACC office would step in at some point. I guess it's not really a home field advantage since Duke has historically sucked so much to where it wouldn't matter, but now that's not really the case anymore...

(09-25-2017 05:24 PM)Love and Honor Wrote:  One, I think it's hilarious that he's complaining about this when Bo Schembechler once yelled at his team shortly after taking because they complained about their home locker room being a dump. Two, something tells me that Michigan might find some rusty nails and the heater accidentally turned on for their next road game a few weeks from now at IU.

I'm surprised Duke is still allowed to get away with their middle school setup, you'd think the ACC office would step in at some point. I guess it's not really a home field advantage since Duke has historically sucked so much to where it wouldn't matter, but now that's not really the case anymore...

Cuse just updated their Junior High look alike Home Locker Room over the summer...after this video came out.

BTW, one of the Top 5 all time locker room speeches IMHO