(05-16-2018 11:10 AM)Rik Flair Wrote:  I just don't understand the point if it isn't enclosed. If its about the playing surface, then just put down an artificial surface. If it's about the elements during the winter, then its not enclosed so you really don't gain anything. If it's about the rain, rain usually is accompanied by wind so its going to blow in. It would be better than not having any roof, but it would be better with walls. If it's about lighting, then ok, maybe. I hope they modify the design or add to for later.

I think you need it for cold mornings or really hot summer workouts when you don't want to expose your players to high heat indexes and possible dehydration. I'm not for pulling the players completely out of the elements but if you have one workout on the fields in the elements and additional workouts indoors for throwing, training, etc. then I think its good to utilize an IPF

Mobile is the rainiest city in the country and the rain is frequently accompanied by lightning. The facility will have a lightning protection system, so the practices lost every season should be a thing of the past.

(05-14-2018 08:00 PM)TroyFootball05 Wrote:  Tornado might just come along and take that practice gazebo with it.

Sort of like the tornado that took out WallyWorld in Troy?

(05-16-2018 12:13 PM)JoeJag Wrote:  

(05-16-2018 11:10 AM)Rik Flair Wrote:  I just don't understand the point if it isn't enclosed. If its about the playing surface, then just put down an artificial surface. If it's about the elements during the winter, then its not enclosed so you really don't gain anything. If it's about the rain, rain usually is accompanied by wind so its going to blow in. It would be better than not having any roof, but it would be better with walls. If it's about lighting, then ok, maybe. I hope they modify the design or add to for later.

I think you need it for cold mornings or really hot summer workouts when you don't want to expose your players to high heat indexes and possible dehydration. I'm not for pulling the players completely out of the elements but if you have one workout on the fields in the elements and additional workouts indoors for throwing, training, etc. then I think its good to utilize an IPF

Rik, the priority is to find financing now for our proposed on campus football stadium. The practice facility is needed now. It is designed, and is being erected to add the sides and to be closed in later. It’s really as simple as that. Not complicated at all.

That makes total sense. Thanks for clarifying. Is there a masterplan for on campus? Is on the intramural fields in some of those pics? I have been to Ladd several times but never on the USA campus

(05-16-2018 09:44 PM)JoeJag Wrote:  

(05-14-2018 08:00 PM)TroyFootball05 Wrote:  Tornado might just come along and take that practice gazebo with it.

Sort of like the tornado that took out WallyWorld in Troy?

Can't remember if I lived in Troy at the time or not. That thing was nasty.

Video showing the work going on in the Training Center

It's going to be an attractive building when finished.

(05-16-2018 10:17 PM)Rik Flair Wrote:  

(05-16-2018 12:13 PM)JoeJag Wrote:  

(05-16-2018 11:10 AM)Rik Flair Wrote:  I just don't understand the point if it isn't enclosed. If its about the playing surface, then just put down an artificial surface. If it's about the elements during the winter, then its not enclosed so you really don't gain anything. If it's about the rain, rain usually is accompanied by wind so its going to blow in. It would be better than not having any roof, but it would be better with walls. If it's about lighting, then ok, maybe. I hope they modify the design or add to for later.

I think you need it for cold mornings or really hot summer workouts when you don't want to expose your players to high heat indexes and possible dehydration. I'm not for pulling the players completely out of the elements but if you have one workout on the fields in the elements and additional workouts indoors for throwing, training, etc. then I think its good to utilize an IPF

Rik, the priority is to find financing now for our proposed on campus football stadium. The practice facility is needed now. It is designed, and is being erected to add the sides and to be closed in later. It’s really as simple as that. Not complicated at all.

That makes total sense. Thanks for clarifying. Is there a masterplan for on campus? Is on the intramural fields in some of those pics? I have been to Ladd several times but never on the USA campus

There is a master plan on south’s website. Yes a football stadium is on it.

https://www.southalabama.edu/departments...7-2027.pdf

(05-16-2018 12:10 AM)GSUALUM17 Wrote:  

(05-15-2018 10:02 PM)Check Yosef Wrote:  Don't really need it to be truly indoor, not in Bama, atleast imho

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100+ degrees heat.

it

Of course you understand that it will not be air conditioned until it is closed and a/c is better than outside heat. Just saying.

(05-19-2018 03:16 AM)Florida RedWolf Wrote:  

(05-16-2018 12:10 AM)GSUALUM17 Wrote:  

(05-15-2018 10:02 PM)Check Yosef Wrote:  Don't really need it to be truly indoor, not in Bama, atleast imho

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100+ degrees heat.

it

Of course you understand that it will not be air conditioned until it is closed and a/c is better than outside heat. Just saying.

True. Mobile can get very hot in mid-August, when fall practice begins.

The South gets a lot of lightning April to September. We just had one of the graduation sections postponed at GSU due to lightning or threat of lightning.

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Update to covered practice facility...

https://www.facebook.com/WeAreSouthJAGS/...334118449/

I saw it this morning. Looks like it will be ready before start of fall practice, according to construction crew.