Facilities

[SecMaven]

How do Tennessee's facilities - locker rooms, weight rooms, dorms etc. compare in quality with those of Alabama and Clemson?

Those programs are certainly at the top of the heap and have heard they are rather good.

Someone said Clemson has a water slide for its players. Gees.

 

[Volsfaninva917]

How do Tennessee's facilities - locker rooms, weight rooms, dorms etc. compare in quality with those of Alabama and Clemson?

Those programs are certainly at the top of the heap and have heard they are rather good.

Someone said Clemson has a water slide for its players. Gees.

Tennessee's facilities aren't lacking

 

[livefaith]

Fhar the facilities guy!

 

[BowlBrother85]

If only we had a water slide, I guess... or a lazy river? There would be no more losing to Vanderbilt!

 

[PEPPERJAX]

Facilities are the least of UT's worries. Maybe UT should try winning? Just a thought.

 

[HooahVol]

Yeah, we can compete with anyone on facilities. If they move forward with the $340 million Neyland upgrade I would argue we have the best facilities in the country.

 

[rgcvols98]

According to 247 Sports our facilities are #5 in the nation

 

[MSrivervol]

Did Butch never tell you about our juice bar? That’s what really reels in the blue-chips from what I’ve heard.

 

[EconVol92]

Tennessee's issues are Personnel issues only. The facilities are among the best in Football and only going to get better with planned upgrades at Neyland and other thing.

On the other hand thru total failures in recruiting and coaching hires (Dooley, Jones) Tennessee has been an absolute dumpster fire for that last decade and a half (My honest opinion was that Fulmer should have been gone around 2002 as he had lost the fire and without Cutcliffe he was never successful and Cutcliffe should have taken over the program).

That being said I still support Pruitt and don't think that you can hold him totally accountable for the current psyche of this team and lack of production at key positions, that will all change in the next couple of years though.

 

[Dudleys87]

Clemson and Bama could look like a A1 highschool field house and the kids would still go because they win

 

[K-town Vol Fan]

How do Tennessee's facilities - locker rooms, weight rooms, dorms etc. compare in quality with those of Alabama and Clemson?

Those programs are certainly at the top of the heap and have heard they are rather good.

Someone said Clemson has a water slide for its players. Gees.

I dont believe it's a water slide. Just a regular slide. Instead of stairs.

Here's a video on ours.

 

[TAF]

Tennessee DOESN'T have a slide...

#ghey

 

[Rooster1]

 

[Vfl2407]

Did Butch never tell you about our juice bar? That’s what really reels in the blue-chips from what I’ve heard.

Problem is our juice bar only contains actual juice...not “juice”

 

[LookinUp]

Yeah, we can compete with anyone on facilities. If they move forward with the $340 million Neyland upgrade I would argue we have the best facilities in the country.

DOWNGRADE
Anytime you remove seats for ritzy suites and skyboxes its a downgrade. Heck, the more seats are removed for whatever purpose its a downgrade.

 

[HooahVol]

Fair point although I would argue the national trend is less attendance so getting nicer seats that you can charge more for is most likely the future.

 

[boomvol]

The fact that we make insane and massive investments in our facilities to make them among the nicest in the country yet still shop from the bargain bin for coaches will never cease to amaze me.

 

[volsfan24017]

The fact that we make insane and massive investments in our facilities to make them among the nicest in the country yet still shop from the bargain bin for coaches will never cease to amaze me.

Kind of like washing a car, but not cleaning the wheels.

 

[Sudden Impact]

According to 247 Sports our facilities are #5 in the nation

4th ahead of all SEC teams except Texas A&M at 3rd

 

[wesley21]

I’m pretty sure I’ve even heard other coaches say we have one of the best in the country

 

[BigOrangeMojo]

How do Tennessee's facilities - locker rooms, weight rooms, dorms etc. compare in quality with those of Alabama and Clemson?

Those programs are certainly at the top of the heap and have heard they are rather good.

Someone said Clemson has a water slide for its players. Gees.

No need for a water slide, we've been on a continuous slide for over a decade now....

 

[BigOrangeMojo]

The fact that we make insane and massive investments in our facilities to make them among the nicest in the country yet still shop from the bargain bin for coaches will never cease to amaze me.

Because the prior three idiots in charge (Currie, Hammy, and Hart) had the 1994 mindset where buildings are more important than people. Even Ole Miss, which used to practice on a parking lot back in the 90s, has nice facilities now...

 

[FLVOL_79]

If only we had a water slide, I guess... or a lazy river? There would be no more losing to Vanderbilt!

Lazy river would lock in so many 5*s.

 

[JohnnyJava]

DOWNGRADE
Anytime you remove seats for ritzy suites and skyboxes its a downgrade. Heck, the more seats are removed for whatever purpose its a downgrade.

However, we are unable to fill up our stadium even with fewer seats. And we are not alone. There are few college/NFL games that are playing to a packed house. HD big screens and the ever-increasing ticket prices have had a big impact on attendance.

 

[Roustabout]

How do Tennessee's facilities - locker rooms, weight rooms, dorms etc. compare in quality with those of Alabama and Clemson?

Those programs are certainly at the top of the heap and have heard they are rather good.

Someone said Clemson has a water slide for its players. Gees.

UT is going to finish in the top 10 in the country.
They have a great practice facility. They have a great locker room. They have a great stadium. They have the Thorton center. They have Stokely Hall.