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Keenan Cummings

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And let me first say, they are incredibly impressive. I've heard about them over and over from recruits all June and being able to see everything for myself was very eye-opening for a number of reasons. It's all connected and essentially has anything that a student athlete could need all in one spot. We'll have a ton of pictures coming from all the individual thing on the tour thanks to @Mog but wanted to outline some of the things.

--The Hall of Traditions is now in the front of the football facility and it's a really open space with a lot of tributes to what has happened in the past but room to add more in the future. A couple things that caught my attention was the build your own uniform virtual platform which allows you to cycle through the jerseys on a virtual screen that projects to pick your favorite combinations. The second was there is platform with footballs that you can touch and each one will make the big screen show highlights of an individual game. We were treated to the highlights of the Fiesta Bowl win over Oklahoma.

--There are going to be students stationed at the front of the Hall of Traditions that are going to be able to show people all the things going on and lead them on tours.

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--There are multiple themes such as gold and blue, coal and there are gold pathways that signal where recruits are led on tours.

--There are graphics, videos and photo opportunities all throughout the facility. It was essentially built as a way to capture amazing photos for recruits on visits. For example, the flying WV that you see in all of the pictures can change multiple colors. It is a really unique feature that makes for excellent photos.

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--The player lounge is incredibly impressive and features TVs and gaming stations, a barbershop, pool tables, ping pong tables, arcade pop shot basketball with flying WVs on the side, a kitchen, a sleep room with state of the art equipment to help maximize the rest time for players at the facility, a recording studio where players will be able to record music, podcasts and other things and much more. It essentially has everything you want for the players. This way it will let the players be there and provide entertainment and more and there are still areas to expand it if they are able to raise even more funding. The sleep room has the massage chairs with zero gravity, sleep pods and more with the room having the ability to dim all the way down and resemble a star-lit sky. It can hold about 15-players at a time.

--The locker room is simply incredible. It has plenty of space, enough where the entire team will meet in the middle for halftime and pre-game speeches and each player has their own ventilated locker with their pictures and a ton of room. There is unique lighting all throughout the room. The design itself is eye-catching and the video board at the front will trail off and run to the display boards on the side as you can see in the picture below. It is every bit as impressive as the pictures of it make it seem.

--Each locker has spots for a shoulder pads, a lock and key to keep personal items, helmets on gameday, their own pictures, additional storage, each one has a phone charger and each locker is ventilated for air to run through it.

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--There is an additionally an NFL locker room for those former players that want to come back and workout with their own pictures and nameplates, etc.

--Outside the locker room, there is a recovery suite which has all state of the art equipment to help players get back and ready to go. Cryo-therapy, light therapy, a bod-pod, cold tanks, float tanks with 900-pounds of Epson salt with zero gravity. They have a system daily that tracks weight loss and gain by each workout as well as hydration lost and many more. It provides a weekly goal and further out. They also track sleep and many other things in order to get players healthy.

--There is a pre-fuel station which gives the players drinks, food and shakes, etc. to get them ready for workouts. It's a essentially a hydration station that is also used for post-fuel.

--The locker room has a mud-room which is essentially a smaller locker room where players will take off their pads, helmets, etc. after practice and then go through a jet spray system which will take off all the black rubber pieces from the turf and then they go into a cold tub. After that players can go through individual showers so it keeps things with odor out of the locker room. The mud room also is ventilated at each locker. Basically, it is essentially like a car wash before entering the locker room.

--The training area has a taping section, rehab area and it's all surrounded by the athletic training offices and a water area.

--There is a section where anybody on the team can put a photo of their family or why they play the game. Each and every team does this and it's called a player wall.

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--There are some new things in the team meeting room, such as a college game-day section and plenty of new graphics and videos. The front of the building is incredibly impressive compared to the past and the presentation is such night and day. All new landscaping, tinted windows, speed bumps and more just to make it appealing.

--Recruits will enter in the Team Meeting Room entrance on game days and it's really decked out with graphics and information to highlight the success of the program over the years. All of the numbers are intentional to catch the attention of recruits visiting.

--There is a studio now in the Puskar Center that will essentially serve as any show that is done during the week and also the main hub for all virtual visits in recruiting. I asked Neal Brown about this and he told me that you can expect that will basically be the first step of the recruiting process moving forward. This is the studio below.

218861099_500864001002006_387003560931020965_n.jpg


--There are individual position rooms and offense and defense position rooms. This is what they look like. They all have sound, records pertinent to the position and more.

218957415_370081957826686_9080048222519329929_n.jpg


--There also is a section for the Fifth Quarter which features all the things going on with that program. Education and alumni success on one side, and there is a picture on the stage of graduation and on the other side there is an NFL stage which are the two goals.

--In the IPF they are currently installing a new video board and sound which should be completed by August.
 
What about a water slide with a Grotto underneath? Clemson has one!

You can’t recruit top players unless there’s a cave under the water slide where the hookers, excuse me escorts/female chaperones can help seal the deal and cash can be left if the deal is sealed. We will never compete with Clemson, tOSU, and the SEC without it.

On a serious note I think it’s getting too nuts & I don’t just mean in the 26505 but everywhere
 
All this so a player feels important enough to play a children's game. Unbelievable. What a waste of money.
I love to see how you respond. Always do negative. But there’s some truth to what you say. Lol
 
I love to see how you respond. Always do negative. But there’s some truth to what you say. Lol
Not negative. Common sense. This stuff is flatass out of control. Gone way beyond providing a good environment and support for STUDENT athletes. "Journalists" covering this should ask serious questions not let drool of envy splash around . Bloat. Oppulence. Waste of money.
 
And let me first say, they are incredibly impressive. I've heard about them over and over from recruits all June and being able to see everything for myself was very eye-opening for a number of reasons. It's all connected and essentially has anything that a student athlete could need all in one spot. We'll have a ton of pictures coming from all the individual thing on the tour thanks to @Mog but wanted to outline some of the things.

--The Hall of Traditions is now in the front of the football facility and it's a really open space with a lot of tributes to what has happened in the past but room to add more in the future. A couple things that caught my attention was the build your own uniform virtual platform which allows you to cycle through the jerseys on a virtual screen that projects to pick your favorite combinations. The second was there is platform with footballs that you can touch and each one will make the big screen show highlights of an individual game. We were treated to the highlights of the Fiesta Bowl win over Oklahoma.

--There are going to be students stationed at the front of the Hall of Traditions that are going to be able to show people all the things going on and lead them on tours.

E6wkfevXMAsShJj


--There are multiple themes such as gold and blue, coal and there are gold pathways that signal where recruits are led on tours.

--There are graphics, videos and photo opportunities all throughout the facility. It was essentially built as a way to capture amazing photos for recruits on visits. For example, the flying WV that you see in all of the pictures can change multiple colors. It is a really unique feature that makes for excellent photos.

E6wkfewXMAcFUJe


--The player lounge is incredibly impressive and features TVs and gaming stations, a barbershop, pool tables, ping pong tables, arcade pop shot basketball with flying WVs on the side, a kitchen, a sleep room with state of the art equipment to help maximize the rest time for players at the facility, a recording studio where players will be able to record music, podcasts and other things and much more. It essentially has everything you want for the players. This way it will let the players be there and provide entertainment and more and there are still areas to expand it if they are able to raise even more funding. The sleep room has the massage chairs with zero gravity, sleep pods and more with the room having the ability to dim all the way down and resemble a star-lit sky. It can hold about 15-players at a time.

--The locker room is simply incredible. It has plenty of space, enough where the entire team will meet in the middle for halftime and pre-game speeches and each player has their own ventilated locker with their pictures and a ton of room. There is unique lighting all throughout the room. The design itself is eye-catching and the video board at the front will trail off and run to the display boards on the side as you can see in the picture below. It is every bit as impressive as the pictures of it make it seem.

--Each locker has spots for a shoulder pads, a lock and key to keep personal items, helmets on gameday, their own pictures, additional storage, each one has a phone charger and each locker is ventilated for air to run through it.

E6wkfe0WYAcZR8C


--There is an additionally an NFL locker room for those former players that want to come back and workout with their own pictures and nameplates, etc.

--Outside the locker room, there is a recovery suite which has all state of the art equipment to help players get back and ready to go. Cryo-therapy, light therapy, a bod-pod, cold tanks, float tanks with 900-pounds of Epson salt with zero gravity. They have a system daily that tracks weight loss and gain by each workout as well as hydration lost and many more. It provides a weekly goal and further out. They also track sleep and many other things in order to get players healthy.

--There is a pre-fuel station which gives the players drinks, food and shakes, etc. to get them ready for workouts. It's a essentially a hydration station that is also used for post-fuel.

--The locker room has a mud-room which is essentially a smaller locker room where players will take off their pads, helmets, etc. after practice and then go through a jet spray system which will take off all the black rubber pieces from the turf and then they go into a cold tub. After that players can go through individual showers so it keeps things with odor out of the locker room. The mud room also is ventilated at each locker. Basically, it is essentially like a car wash before entering the locker room.

--The training area has a taping section, rehab area and it's all surrounded by the athletic training offices and a water area.

--There is a section where anybody on the team can put a photo of their family or why they play the game. Each and every team does this and it's called a player wall.

218693530_123347939898128_6303793567069500699_n.jpg


--There are some new things in the team meeting room, such as a college game-day section and plenty of new graphics and videos. The front of the building is incredibly impressive compared to the past and the presentation is such night and day. All new landscaping, tinted windows, speed bumps and more just to make it appealing.

--Recruits will enter in the Team Meeting Room entrance on game days and it's really decked out with graphics and information to highlight the success of the program over the years. All of the numbers are intentional to catch the attention of recruits visiting.

--There is a studio now in the Puskar Center that will essentially serve as any show that is done during the week and also the main hub for all virtual visits in recruiting. I asked Neal Brown about this and he told me that you can expect that will basically be the first step of the recruiting process moving forward. This is the studio below.

218861099_500864001002006_387003560931020965_n.jpg


--There are individual position rooms and offense and defense position rooms. This is what they look like. They all have sound, records pertinent to the position and more.

218957415_370081957826686_9080048222519329929_n.jpg


--There also is a section for the Fifth Quarter which features all the things going on with that program. Education and alumni success on one side, and there is a picture on the stage of graduation and on the other side there is an NFL stage which are the two goals.

--In the IPF they are currently installing a new video board and sound which should be completed by August.

Looks like 7-5 facilities to me.
 
Not negative. Common sense. This stuff is flatass out of control. Gone way beyond providing a good environment and support for STUDENT athletes. "Journalists" covering this should ask serious questions not let drool of envy splash around . Bloat. Oppulence. Waste of money.
Good luck selling that to a kid these days
 
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You mad, bro?
Perhaps land grant state universities should remember their mission. Glorifying this stuff and the money...regardless of where it comes from...could be used to assist that mission. Wonder what coal miners working in the cold and dark would feel about the pampering cult that has infected college sports. No wonder attendance from students is pathetic.
 
The upgrades must be working. Recruiting has improved. The place is top of the line. The negative remarks are flying.

Now we just need to start winning.
 
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Perhaps land grant state universities should remember their mission. Glorifying this stuff and the money...regardless of where it comes from...could be used to assist that mission. Wonder what coal miners working in the cold and dark would feel about the pampering cult that has infected college sports. No wonder attendance from students is pathetic.

This is athletics in 2021. It's that way at Alabama, Clemson and essentially anywhere else in the country. You have to invest if you want to recruit at a high level, it's pretty much as simple as that.
 
I was wondering why the replies were so shitty, then I saw what board I accidentally stumbled into. Oof
 
This is athletics in 2021. It's that way at Alabama, Clemson and essentially anywhere else in the country. You have to invest if you want to recruit at a high level, it's pretty much as simple as that.
Then perhaps the Ivy League...D3 programs...or other schools at lower scholarship levels have it right. Doesn't appear that the neverending sports program money pit now at West Virginia University is doing much for quality of life for the shrinking population of the state. Even the on field results are mediocre.
 
Then perhaps the Ivy League...D3 programs...or other schools at lower scholarship levels have it right. Doesn't appear that the neverending sports program money pit now at West Virginia University is doing much for quality of life for the shrinking population of the state. Even the on field results are mediocre.
Cornell is always looking for more fans...since they do it right....go apply.

We don't need anymore self-loathing WVU fans here anymore.
 
You mad bro?

Keenan just explained it to you twice.

Get on board with it or leave.

No one wants your negativity around here anymore.

I applaud WVU and what they are doing.
My bet is you love your government checks and applaud the taxes that actual productive people pay too.
 
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Then perhaps the Ivy League...D3 programs...or other schools at lower scholarship levels have it right. Doesn't appear that the neverending sports program money pit now at West Virginia University is doing much for quality of life for the shrinking population of the state. Even the on field results are mediocre.

I'm really not sure what you're even arguing here? This was money raised for facility improvements. The facility improvements are impressive and make West Virginia competitive with their peers on the recruiting trail. Mission accomplished to me?
 
I’m trying to remember. Does the main university have bod pods, tanks, and other fitness assessment tools available for tuition paying students to use?
 
I'm really not sure what you're even arguing here? This was money raised for facility improvements. The facility improvements are impressive and make West Virginia competitive with their peers on the recruiting trail. Mission accomplished to me?
Keenan do you have any clue as to what the university's mission is? Sounding kind of narrow and self serving in your answers huh?
 
Sorry root and sky are derailing your thread.

The new facilities are great for WVU! Thanks for sharing it with the board.

It's amazing to me how anybody could take this thread in any other direction other than simply being impressed with what West Virginia has done here. I've been on the beat for over a decade now and this is by far the most impressive upgrades I've ever seen with the facilities. It truly puts West Virginia on equal terms or perhaps even better in so many areas with their recruiting peers. The momentum from it is obvious with the visit weekends this summer, too. But let's continue to divert this elsewhere.
 
It's amazing to me how anybody could take this thread in any other direction other than simply being impressed with what West Virginia has done here. I've been on the beat for over a decade now and this is by far the most impressive upgrades I've ever seen with the facilities. It truly puts West Virginia on equal terms or perhaps even better in so many areas with their recruiting peers. The momentum from it is obvious with the visit weekends this summer, too. But let's continue to divert this elsewhere.
I didn't divert. Just stated a different opinion than yours. Apparently that upsets some children.
 
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I didn't divert. Just stated a different opinion than yours. Apparently that upsets some children.
All this so a player feels important enough to play a children's game. Unbelievable. What a waste of money.
You are right. You brought an opinion.

An opinion is a judgement, viewpoint, or statement that is not conclusive, rather than facts, which are true statements.

Keenan wrote an article based with facts not opinion.
 
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This is athletics in 2021. It's that way at Alabama, Clemson and essentially anywhere else in the country. You have to invest if you want to recruit at a high level, it's pretty much as simple as that.

At both UGA and Alabama, they’ve taken the money they gain from sports to build retirement communities for alumni who want to retire there. At Alabama, they have an Olympic-quality facility specifically for the retirees to use to swim, do PT, maintain weight training, etc.

They do this for several reasons. One is to maintain loyalty to the program and institution. Two is to take care of their alum in ways to maximize donations.

But the facilities in both places were built largely out of sports program revenue.

UGA has become an upper-tier academic program (now a Top 50 academic school which would have been laughable 20 years ago) using the world class facilities athletic money bought to attract some of the smartest kids in the country. Campus is constantly being improved in ways to maximize the ROI on academics and athletics. They’ve really done well there to work the two goals in tandem.

Alabama hasn’t used its money quite the same way, but they have outstanding facilities for students, athletes, retirees, and many in between.

I can’t fully disagree with the sentiment that we (as a nation) spend a ridiculous amount of money on athletics. But the money brought in has also been used wisely on the things that matter to many of the rest of us in many places in the country.

It’s not like the University hasn’t also spend gobs of money improving other aspects of campus as a whole.
 
At both UGA and Alabama, they’ve taken the money they gain from sports to build retirement communities for alumni who want to retire there. At Alabama, they have an Olympic-quality facility specifically for the retirees to use to swim, do PT, maintain weight training, etc.

They do this for several reasons. One is to maintain loyalty to the program and institution. Two is to take care of their alum in ways to maximize donations.

But the facilities in both places were built largely out of sports program revenue.

UGA has become an upper-tier academic program (now a Top 50 academic school which would have been laughable 20 years ago) using the world class facilities athletic money bought to attract some of the smartest kids in the country. Campus is constantly being improved in ways to maximize the ROI on academics and athletics. They’ve really done well there to work the two goals in tandem.

Alabama hasn’t used its money quite the same way, but they have outstanding facilities for students, athletes, retirees, and many in between.

I can’t fully disagree with the sentiment that we (as a nation) spend a ridiculous amount of money on athletics. But the money brought in has also been used wisely on the things that matter to many of the rest of us in many places in the country.

It’s not like the University hasn’t also spend gobs of money improving other aspects of campus as a whole.

I didn't want to get this deep into it, but thank you for replying for me.
 
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Maybe all this stuff isn’t “necessary” to be a student athlete but there are definitely more than enough reasons to justify it. First and foremost is to keep up. If we don’t do it, someone else will. Second, if you’ve ever worked out or performed at that level, you’d realize just how nice and how much a lot of these luxuries mean to these kids. Maybe they don’t need a recording studio… but the recovery equipment, the sleep lounge, having everything necessary to be a STUDENT ATHLETE in one place certainly makes a very hard task, much easier. It is extremely hard to balance school and the level of athletic/physical performance they’re asked to achieve day in and day out. These facilities make it easier on these kids.. and not all of these kids are geniuses or could probably make it without some of this help. Kudos to our AD for moving ahead. And if you don’t think this has every bit as much effect landing recruits as the staff does, you’re
 
You are right. You brought an opinion.

An opinion is a judgement, viewpoint, or statement that is not conclusive, rather than facts, which are true statements.

Keenan wrote an article based with facts not opinion.
You've turned into such a pandering dope. Your middle school responses are boring. KEENAN S PIECE WAS HIS OPINION OF WHAT HE SAW. MY RESPONSE WAS WHAT HE SAW IS A PATHETIC WASTE OF MONEY. Run along child.
 
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