Indoor Practice Facility

[UNT Mean Green]

23 hours ago, UNT 90 Grad said:

Over the past five years, six schools competing in the ACC have built indoor practice facilities, while another four are scheduled to open by the end of 2015. The University of Florida, lone holdout in the SEC, recently announced that it was seeking design bids for a potential facility. "Some would argue it's about the arms race, but really, they do play a pretty important role in providing an all-weather practice space," says Joel Leider, vice president of SportsPLAN Studio in Kansas City, Mo. "Student-athletes from every sport train every day year-round. Providing a place for them to work during the winter, during storms, during oppressive heat — that's important."

For football, the list of reasons to have an indoor facility is even more compelling. "Football teams have 120 guys on them," Leider says. "That's a lot of people to have concentrated on a single practice field. The ability to run inside and out when the weather changes or to do drills is pretty important."

"It's the versatility of anything from not having people standing at the fence watching what you're doing to being able to practice certain conditioning activities in a controlled environment," adds Yann Cowart, vice president with Montgomery, Ala.-based Infinity Architecture.

http://www.athleticbusiness.com/gym-fieldhouse/designing-the-modern-college-football-practice-facility.html

Great article. Just FYI Florida has one now. http://floridagators.com/facilities/?id=11

[EagleMBA]

I was laboring under the assumption that we had enough weight training and academic facilities for our athletes, so that additional facilities just for convenience would be redundant. I should have known better...they are obviously necessary.

Indoor track capabilities and some stands would be nice too. The caveat here is that the footprint gets bigger and bigger, driving up the total number of exterior wall feet and roof and foundation square feet, hence the overall cost rises quickly.

In The Wren We Trust!

Edited October 13, 2016 by EagleMBA

[PlummMeanGreen]

A look at what Virginia Tech's indoor facility will look like. Video provided to the Roanoke Times by HKS Sports & Entertainment and W.M.Jordan Company.

As I recall, HKS was the architect firm that designed Apogee Stadium & the Dallas Cowboys AT&T stadium.

https://youtu.be/rpeyQAw_-_s

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And 1 year later in the below link is the VaTech Hokies's finished product

https://youtu.be/xYJCYXMg010

 

PS:  Per the YouTube video, Virginia Tech's IPF will serve a few other Varsity teams so it will be used year round.

 

GMG!

 

Edited October 13, 2016 by PlummMeanGreen

[MeanGreen13]

3 hours ago, EagleMBA said:

I was laboring under the assumption that we had enough weight training and academic facilities for our athletes, so that additional facilities just for convenience would be redundant. I should have known better...they are obviously necessary.

Indoor track capabilities and some stands would be nice too. The caveat here is that the footprint gets bigger and bigger, driving up the total number of exterior wall feet and roof and foundation square feet, hence the overall cost rises quickly.

In The Wren We Trust!

Now that I think about it... all you would need to have an indoor facility that track athletes can train in is a 120 yard sprint lane (2-4 lanes) along side of the field... that would probably be ok for when the weather is bad and wouldn't add that much more space to the project.