BBall facility issues @ PSU (aka: the Gophers could have it a LOT worse)

[GoAUpher]

For all the hemming and hawing about a practice facility at the U you can safely say that the Gophers do not have the worst facility issues in the Big Ten when it comes to ability to practice. That honor belongs to Penn State.

http://www.blackshoediaries.com/2011/2/16/1996500/nitt-picks-thinks-thats-kind-of-a-joke

Not when the Nittany Lions only get to practice on their own court only four times this month thanks to scheduling conflicts keeping them out of the Jordan Center. Not when the team is forced to play in Penn State's bomb shelter of an IM Building.

http://bwi.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1189418

Knowing that nothing could be done to change the reality of having to practice at the IM Building, today, the debate centered around whether to view film in preparation of Thursday night's game against Minnesota before or after practice, because the team needed to be finished by 5:30 p.m. because the IM Building also had scheduled other activities for 6 p.m. today.

"We're trying to figure out whether to watch tape before we practice or after we practice. Will we have enough time on the practice floor? But, in the same sense, a couple of the staff guys said, We have to see it before we go over there and do it because they won't get it, they won't understand. It's the first time we played Minnesota," he said at his noon press conference today. "If we had played them before, it's a little easier, OK, remember this, and it all comes back to them. But, this is the first time we play. It's a 30-40 minute presentation before we play them and I'm not there yet whether we watch tape before in our film room and then walk over, or, go practice, and then bring them back after, let them shower up and watch tape after we watch practice.

"So, I'm still tugging with that. Then, the actual practice tape at the IM building is a little bit challenging to watch because the film angle and the lighting, more guarding Minnesota stuff, we like to break that down tonight after we actually did it on the floor so we can show the kids tomorrow. Hey, this is how you guard them. Hey, this is good, this is not so good, but it's hard to see over there, and it's nobody's fault, it's just the lighting with the floor and the reflection. All we see when we tape it is lights that shine back up off the floor. It's just the way that it is. It's nobody's deal, it's just the lighting situation."

There is even a picture of the effed up backboards at the IM building:

So yea, even though I think the U needs to pick up the pace and get Tubby his practice facility, things could definitely be worse!

 

[GoAUpher]

Also, the bball team couldn't practice at the Jordan Center because Bon Jovi was using it as a practice space and because of a career fair. Yes, a career fair.

 

[CrocShots]

When My team and I would go and play IM basketball at the Rec, the women's team was up there a couple of times practicing.

 

[brooski]

i was looking for a bit of a firestorm on this board after lou nanne's comments on a practice facility. not an exact quote, but, he stated that the gophers will need a new practice facility so they will have a place to practice when they build a new bb arena.

i have also heard bob knight state that if minnesota wants to increase their chances for top prospects, they need to build a new arena.

i think the time has come, also. it may not be in the very near future, but, i wouldn't be surprised if the "talk" doesn't ramp up in the next few years.

 

[CrocShots]

i was looking for a bit of a firestorm on this board after lou nanne's comments on a practice facility. not an exact quote, but, he stated that the gophers will need a new practice facility so they will have a place to practice when they build a new bb arena.

i have also heard bob knight state that if minnesota wants to increase their chances for top prospects, they need to build a new arena.

i think the time has come, also. it may not be in the very near future, but, i wouldn't be surprised if the "talk" doesn't ramp up in the next few years.

At the very least some renovations could be in order. I have no idea where the $$ would come from.

 

[brooski]

At the very least some renovations could be in order. I have no idea where the $$ would come from.

well, t. denny sanford likes his name on shiny, new things. maybe someone could dig in his pockets? out here in a printed interview, he stated he wants to die a poor man.

when the economy starts turning, wouldn't surprise me if the talk starts to ripple.