Okie State raises the stakes in the Facilities "Arms Race"

[Muskie]

Link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvkrGLIpp5c&feature=player_embedded#!)

I assume Boone Pickens paid for a majority of this.

[GoMuskies]

That's awesome and disgusting all at the same time.

[DoubleD86]

Those things are amazing...I know, real in-depth analysis there but I am just amazed.

[American X]

Nice job Texas A&M cutting T. Boone Pickens from his basketball scholarship so that he transferred to Oklahoma State.

http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/01e86b401205.jpg

[Bmuskie]

It's a very nice "Locker Room" that any college athlete would want, but is it just me or does something not seam right. I thought a locker room was a place to prepare for games. If so then Why is there a large entertainment center, bar and pool table? I would think as a coach I would want those things out of there. Maybe set up a seperate lounge for the athletes with all of that away from the locker room. I would love to see how this "locker room" looks on game day, before a game, after a game and during halftime. What are they doing? Where are they going? Which parts of the locker room are they using? It seams like a virtual mess of a maze.

[Muskie]

It's a very nice "Locker Room" that any college athlete would want, but is it just me or does something not seam right. I thought a locker room was a place to prepare for games. If so then Why is there a large entertainment center, bar and pool table? I would think as a coach I would want those things out of there. Maybe set up a seperate lounge for the athletes with all of that away from the locker room. I would love to see how this "locker room" looks on game day, before a game, after a game and during halftime. What are they doing? Where are they going? Which parts of the locker room are they using? It seams like a virtual mess of a maze.

I think it's meant to be a gathering area for the team. I bet they use the traditional looking lockerroom during the game.

[GuyFawkes38]

That's awesome and disgusting all at the same time.

ha, yeah, it almost appears to be a parody.

I'm sure NBA and even some Euro teams have similar type stuff.

In a world where you can't pay college athletes, I bet there's even more of an incentive to offer perks like that.

[Bmuskie]

I think it's meant to be a gathering area for the team. I bet they use the traditional looking lockerroom during the game.

Yeah I guess I would just switch everything. Locker room and training room and film room upstairs while the "gathering area" is downstairs. When you walk in from the arena the first thing you should see is basketball related not a rec room/play area.

[Juice]

Oregon's football locker rooms aren't too shabby either

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1NyaTVUhFQ&p=C4E4131738BDE25A&playnext=1&index=24