They really should bulldoze the place and build a new indoor practice facility but at least they are doing something.
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It needs to be expanded and updated is the problem.Dumb questions: what’s wrong with it? Looks like it’s old with no natural light. Could we renovate it with windows? Or is it just too small and outdated?
Way past due.It needs to be expanded and updated is the problem.
The indoor facility (Mellancamp) was out-dated before it was completed. The ceiling is too low for punters, K/O's. & generally, is too small in housing the entire FB team during practice. Replacing just the turf will further delay the necessary construction.Dumb questions: what’s wrong with it? Looks like it’s old with no natural light. Could we renovate it with windows? Or is it just too small and outdated?
maybe they are planning on raising the roofThe indoor facility (Mellancamp) was out-dated before it was completed. The ceiling is too low for punters, K/O's. & generally, is too small in housing the entire FB team during practice. Replacing just the turf will further delay the necessary construction.
Thanks. Yea, it looks tiny in there.The indoor facility (Mellancamp) was out-dated before it was completed. The ceiling is too low for punters, K/O's. & generally, is too small in housing the entire FB team during practice. Replacing just the turf will further delay the necessary construction.
Liked Vandy’s indoor short track (perhaps not quite 400m … but close enough).
I'm sure when it was proposed Mallory was ecstatic. About the only addition to the status quo of his time at IUFB.Thanks. Yea, it looks tiny in there.
IU not thinking ahead… probably would not have cost that much more to make it larger in 1996.
Literally the only issue people have noted about it is the roof height. Which impacts our ability to run fast, block, tackle and execute strategy.Bit of chicken and egg. Got to invest to win, win and you can invest more.
Makes sense.Literally the only issue people have noted about it is the roof height. Which impacts our ability to run fast, block, tackle and execute strategy.
A few people heard that we needed a new indoor facility....they didn't know why, but then ran with it as some huge example of IU not being committed to football. It's fine. It's nothing glorious or fantastic. The team hardly ever uses it to begin with, it gets a lot more use by other sports. It's just something else for people to bitch about.
It has more issues than the roof as it doesn't allow the team to play on a full field, there is not room on the sidelines, and many other things if it is to be used for football practice.Literally the only issue people have noted about it is the roof height. Which impacts our ability to run fast, block, tackle and execute strategy.
A few people heard that we needed a new indoor facility....they didn't know why, but then ran with it as some huge example of IU not being committed to football. It's fine. It's nothing glorious or fantastic. The team hardly ever uses it to begin with, it gets a lot more use by other sports. It's just something else for people to bitch about.
May not be close to elite, but Indiana doesn't have unlimited funds to throw around. Or donor funds. Especially when we're using them on buyouts in football and soon basketball. I don't know if I want the current big buyout regime deciding what else to spend on either.It has more issues than the roof as it doesn't allow the team to play on a full field, there is not room on the sidelines, and many other things if it is to be used for football practice.
Knight ran his program without any frills and is part of the reason our facilities were so far behind and why Cook Hall was so important.Cignetti doesn't remind me of someone who will put up with cruddy facilities. Even though he's coming from small ball, just can't see him getting beaten up on the recruiting trail due to Mellencamp.
He'll be in Dolson's ear, IMO. Hell, he reminds me of Knight and Knight ran that athletic department for decades! As a football man, I wouldn't mind Cignetti calling the shots across the board!!
Leave it to be used by the university for other studentIt needs to be expanded and updated is the problem.
WTF for? So we don't get wet when it rains? Because it gets so freaking cold in Indiana that we can't practice outside? WTF do we even need an indoor facility for more than a handful of times a year?Leave it to be used by the university for other student
athletic needs. Build a top of the line football only facility.
You seem to know exactly how often it's used. Tell us please. I honestly don't know much about it other than some dude from my hometown area donated a chunk for it about 30 years ago.WTF for? So we don't get wet when it rains? Because it gets so freaking cold in Indiana that we can't practice outside? WTF do we even need an indoor facility for more than a handful of times a year?
In the grand scheme, football is the shot caller. With conference mergers, if football is not the shot caller, then Indiana takes a walk to some low level conference where money is real skinny and their athletics probably eventually suck butt.WTF for? So we don't get wet when it rains? Because it gets so freaking cold in Indiana that we can't practice outside? WTF do we even need an indoor facility for more than a handful of times a year?
That doesn't address my question/point in the least. You just described it as something that we need even though we don't use it. WE're not Minnesota, WIsconsin, etc where the weather keeps us from practicing or having productive practices. We can be outdoors damned near every day, even in the spring.In the grand scheme, football is the shot caller. With conference mergers, if football is not the shot caller, then Indiana takes a walk to some low level conference where money is real skinny and their athletics probably eventually suck butt.
That's reality in today's big time conferences. If you look closely at the top 25 in basketball, the football schools are VERY well represented. Schools like Tennessee, Bama, and Auburn are looking real good from where I sit.
Suggests they are not getting rid of it for a bit. I guess they could keep mellencamp and add another facilityThis seems like a waste of money if it's that bad of a practice facility.
So Melloncamp is the new weight room now?Leave it to be used by the university for other student
athletic needs. Build a top of the line football only facility.
Plenty of uses for the old building if we build a new one. Intramurals, club sports, HYPER classes, community uses etc.Suggests they are not getting rid of it for a bit. I guess they could keep mellencamp and add another facility
The weather in Indiana sucks six months a year.That doesn't address my question/point in the least. You just described it as something that we need even though we don't use it. WE're not Minnesota, WIsconsin, etc where the weather keeps us from practicing or having productive practices. We can be outdoors damned near every day, even in the spring.
lol what’s that brought since Knight has left??Knight ran his program without any frills and is part of the reason our facilities were so far behind and why Cook Hall was so important.
Quonset hut architecture went out of style not too long after WWII. It was a design to build on the cheap. New construction of this basic configuration is pretty much limited to State HW Dept storage of sand, salt and gravel.
They really should bulldoze the place and build a new indoor practice facility but at least they are doing something.
A decent amount of highly rated recruits our coaches waste. 😉lol what’s that brought since Knight has left??
Yes it does look cramped.It has more issues than the roof as it doesn't allow the team to play on a full field, there is not room on the sidelines, and many other things if it is to be used for football practice.
Interesting. Mellencamp was built in ‘95-96, seems like we had a thing for this old style of architecture?Quonset hut architecture went out of style not too long after WWII. It was a design to build on the cheap. New construction of this basic configuration is pretty much limited to State HW Dept storage of sand, salt and gravel.
Bullshit. And even if true it wouldn’t be any of the months that encompass football season.The weather in Indiana sucks six months a year.
It’s the “Indiana mentality,” not too far removed from the more imbecile “Purdue mentality.”Interesting. Mellencamp was built in ‘95-96, seems like we had a thing for this old style of architecture?
There’s a full 120 yard field in there. This isn’t the CFL.It has more issues than the roof as it doesn't allow the team to play on a full field, there is not room on the sidelines, and many other things if it is to be used for football practice.