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I just saw this picture from Deontae Crumitie's Twitter. Is this really what our locker rooms look like?

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(01-27-2014 08:04 PM)GoBlazers468 Wrote:  I just saw this picture from Deontae Crumitie's Twitter. Is this really what our locker rooms look like?

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The lockers may look like crap, but the word is, Crumitie is pretty good!

There is only room for just over 100 players in the locker room (some young guys even share). Sadly, there is an extra "overflow" room with those lockers in it when there are too many.

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(01-27-2014 08:27 PM)BlazeNBham Wrote:  



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Tiffany doesn't look too impressed-lol!

Speaking of locker rooms(sorta)

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Some new additions today to the Blazers locker room at #RegionsField, thanks to @Fathead! @BhamBarons #goblazers

The pic looks like the legion field locker room.

That's Legion Field locker room. They had the different uniforms, practice gear, shoes, etc at legion field when they went there on the tour.

(01-27-2014 08:37 PM)WesternBlazer Wrote:  Speaking of locker rooms(sorta)

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Some new additions today to the Blazers locker room at #RegionsField, thanks to @Fathead! @BhamBarons #goblazers

I wonder if they will paint an elephant on one the posts in 2015

(01-27-2014 08:31 PM)Bham Blazer Wrote:  

(01-27-2014 08:27 PM)BlazeNBham Wrote:  



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Tiffany doesn't look too impressed-lol!

check out what mcgee says at the 2:30 mark..

(01-27-2014 09:34 PM)4thDownBlazer Wrote:  

(01-27-2014 08:31 PM)Bham Blazer Wrote:  

(01-27-2014 08:27 PM)BlazeNBham Wrote:  



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Tiffany doesn't look too impressed-lol!

check out what mcgee says at the 2:30 mark..

When he said that, he was probably clueless on what other CUSA facilities look like.

I'm sorry, but it's a locker room. You change clothes and shower there. If a recruit chooses a school based on its locker room then they're probably too dumb to be in college.

Dude. It's a dump, and if you don't think that the differences between them are not noticed by the recruits you're not thinking the way they do. These kids do official visits at more than one school, and see the contrast. It's not a big jump to think "if things are this crappy, what else is that I don't know about yet?"

18 year old kids are not known for their good judgement and far sightedness, and for many of the athletes the academic side is not as important as the athletic side, not when they are being recruited as football players, not academic scholarship kids. I'm not throwing rocks at the jocks, sure, plenty of them are thinking about school and academics... but facilities are one of the very front lines in the recruiting wars, and if you don't think having lockers that are worse than middle school and old ratty carpet on the floor does not get noticed, well...

(01-27-2014 09:41 PM)dfarr Wrote:  I'm sorry, but it's a locker room. You change clothes and shower there. If a recruit chooses a school based on its locker room then they're probably too dumb to be in college.

This just isn't true. As a player you spend a lot of time in the locker room. It should be somewhere that players want to hangout and bond with other players.

(01-27-2014 09:48 PM)UAB Band Dad Wrote:  Dude. It's a dump, and if you don't think that the differences between them are not noticed by the recruits you're not thinking the way they do. These kids do official visits at more than one school, and see the contrast. It's not a big jump to think "if things are this crappy, what else is that I don't know about yet?"

18 year old kids are not known for their good judgement and far sightedness, and for many of the athletes the academic side is not as important as the athletic side, not when they are being recruited as football players, not academic scholarship kids. I'm not throwing rocks at the jocks, sure, plenty of them are thinking about school and academics... but facilities are one of the very front lines in the recruiting wars, and if you don't think having lockers that are worse than middle school and old ratty carpet on the floor does not get noticed, well...

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Most kids like nice things. Decent facilities improve the morale of the current players too.

Without a doubt, facilities factor into decisions and that includes locker rooms. The teams with good ones are real quick to show them to the potential players. There's a reason they do so.

(01-27-2014 09:41 PM)dfarr Wrote:  I'm sorry, but it's a locker room. You change clothes and shower there. If a recruit chooses a school based on its locker room then they're probably too dumb to be in college.

He said dumb....hehe

If a school like MTSU can have this:
[img]http:// http://www.goblueraiders.com/content.cfm/id/64773[/img]

And our own basketball team can have this:
[img]http:// http://media.al.com/birmingham-news/phot...andard.jpg[/img]

Then i , certainly, hope that we can step up for our program.

I thought the locker room was one of the things Clark talked about getting done. Other teams don't need to negative recruit against us. We do it to ourselves better than anyone.

There are only two possible conclusions about facilities. Those who spend a lot are damned fools for doing so because the recruits really don't care OR those who neglect them are damned fools because they do matter to recruits so only those without better offers sign on with poor facility schools.

The critical indicator is to see which kids sign with which schools on the first Wednesday of Feb..