Um so Oregon has a Bad A$$ Facility as well

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Oregon unveils new Football Performance Center: Video, photos - College Football - Ian Thomsen - SI.com

Much more modern (compared to Tennessee's) with regard to the overall design/architectural theme. It's a cali thing i suppose.

The int./ext. design is much more suited for a silcon valley, ala google or facebook's corporate offices... i guess the saying is true... can't hide nike money.. it cost 68 million :yikes:

Honestly...IMO it's a little too sophisticated looking. Don't get me wrong, it's amazing... but will 17 year kids be able to relate to the atmosphere and feel comfortable in it? West coast kids... maybe.. but how about kids from the south that win programs championships?
 
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yet all that money from Nike and that facility is still missing trophy cases, history, and tradition.
 
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Impressive, but too fancy for my taste. I prefer the wood grain and warm colors of ours over the high gloss and glass of theirs.
 
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:eek:lol:they are oregon, WE ARE THE ONLY T AND THAT IS TENNESSEE enough said oregon is a joke when you start talking about the history of college football.:eek:lol:Dont make me laugh so hard oregon and college football and they are fixing to fall flat on there azz and be a joke like they have been for about 80 of the years they have played football.:eek:lol:
 
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This is about to be the new normal. Programs that can't afford facilities like this will have major recruiting disadvantages.
 
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Reminds me a lot of UT's Art & Architecture building which is very modernist in design. It looks great at night when it's lit up from the inside and looks great on the inside (open spaces and all that) *but* it can also look ugly as sin from the outside during the day, especially when the exterior hasn't been power-washed. It also looks out of place on campus and is dated by its very bold modernist design -- it came from the 80s and looks like it.

Oregon's complex shares that very modernist design element and runs the same risks. What looks cool one day can turn ugly the next when it comes to trying out bold designs.
 
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terrypedigo said:
:eek:lol:they are oregon, WE ARE THE ONLY T AND THAT IS TENNESSEE enough said oregon is a joke when you start talking about the history of college football.:eek:lol:Dont make me laugh so hard oregon and college football and they are fixing to fall flat on there azz and be a joke like they have been for about 80 of the years they have played football.:eek:lol:
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Too bad that joke is going to murder us this season.
 
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pretty sweet facility. but this may be nit picking, but got me to thinking. i remember the softball player that got the secondary violation for using water on campus to wash her car. what about the barber shop, the arcade rooms and all the likes in facilites on campuses? if its not open to students, then is that not a violation
 
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Oregon has been in a BCS game every year for the past 4 years. Tennessee hasn't been to a BCS game in 13 years. Not too mention how many times in those thirteen years we haven't even gone bowling. What do you think matters more to recruits, a championship when they were 3 years old with irrelevancy since, or a team that has been a consistent top ten team for most of their lives? This lack of tradition and history crap is getting old. We sound like Bama circa 2000.
 
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The shiney stuff is what attract kids now. It looks more like a LA night club than a football facility, but I have to admitt it's nice.
 
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terrypedigo said:
:eek:lol:they are oregon, WE ARE THE ONLY T AND THAT IS TENNESSEE enough said oregon is a joke when you start talking about the history of college football.:eek:lol:Dont make me laugh so hard oregon and college football and they are fixing to fall flat on there azz and be a joke like they have been for about 80 of the years they have played football.:eek:lol:
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Only we aren't talking about the history of college football. It's a facility whose purpose is to attract kids born in the 1990s.

The only maxims they care about are magazines with half naked chicks on the cover.
 
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Lawrence Wright said:
Only we aren't talking about the history of college football. It's a facility whose purpose is to attract kids born in the 1990s.

The only maxims they care about are magazines with half naked chicks on the cover.
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This.

The kids being recruited right now can't remember UT's last championship. Tradition only means so much in the twitter era.
 
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bamawriter said:
This.

The kids being recruited right now can't remember UT's last championship. Tradition only means so much in the twitter era.
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Thankfully, it seems like Butch understands this. Tradition is great for the fanbase, alumni, and coaches. Not so much for (most of) the recruits.
 
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Aesius said:
Thankfully, it seems like Butch understands this. Tradition is great for the fanbase, alumni, and coaches. Not so much for (most of) the recruits.
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Winning is great for the fanbase, alumni and coaches. Butch realizes that's what he has to do. Let's see if he can do it.
 
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That is amazing. I think ours fits in better with us being in the south. Oregon's definitely has a west coast feel to it. Beautiful facility. There's Nothing like having endless Nike money.
 
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Personally I don't see anything that would "wow" a recruit there that wouldn't in UT's. same stuff, just smells newer.
 
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