Itâs a very nice locker room but it was designed by a bunch of people who didnât know football and that didnât have a bunch of vision.
We currently have temp lockers in there because of the additional FBS players.
To your question Nugget⌠Donnalley said it was an FCS level locker room in terms of number of scholarship players and overall roster size. It was a great locker room day one, now its just too small.
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Itâs pretty bush league looking, extra metal lockers randomly shoved in to fit extra players. Definitely needs a renovation and some character. Just has blank walls as of now as well.
Wow that was a very shortsighted decision. Sounds like they had no plans to move up from FCS in the foreseeable future when they made that call. It would have been so much easier & cheaper to build for the future move up instead of trying to expand the facility after only a few years.
It just blows my mind how stupid everyone in the previous AD was.
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I am more baffled that we paid an architectural firm big bucks and they did not account for this.
Why would the firm know about FCS vs FBS rosters? They were just following whatever Judy told them.
If you donât know about football, you shouldnât design football stadiums. That aside, the process a firm uses to elicit requirementsâcurrent and futureâcertainly would have discovered that FBS has more players. Maybe I am thinking about this like software (what I do), but I canât believe there is not a similar methodology.
In many cases, engineering companies create multiple design concepts. They would then move forward with the design that the client feels is best for them. They would have most likely created approval drawings that would have been signed by the client. The final decision rested with the University despite what the engineering firm presented.
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But the customer is not always right, so I am surprised that the engineering experts do not have a responsibility to lead them to a better outcome, similar to a fiduciary responsibility. Maybe it is just different in the construction industry.
Why are we just now finding this out?
Now that we know the most critical part of the building sucks, I can finally find it appropriate that itâs named after Judy
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Weight room?
Judy and Phil starting football were like lifelong vegans opening a Brazilian Steakhouse.
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I donât disagree that the customer is not always right after having done several big projects. However, the company has no choice but to comply when the customer is paying you multi millions to do something like they want it.
I was talking to General Mills about a project decision and they just refused and got angry about it. Instead of letting them cancel the project I did it their way. They paid my company a lot of money later to fix their dumb decision.
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Wasnât Lambert around when it was being built? Did he not oversee construction to a degree? I got that impression somehow.
Supposedly the guest locker rooms were going to be as nice as the home ones and Lambert pushed back against that. Thatâs what Donnelly told us.
Fixed, lol.