CaneInHeelCountry
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The "we have won without it, so that must mean we don't need it" argument is retarded, not yours. Relax, I'm agreeing with you.
The "we have won without it" argument implies more than what you'r giving credit for.
As I noted in another post, we've long heard about how our good teams from the 80s, 90s and early 2000s would convene on their own for "voluntary" practices and workouts, and they'd hold each other accountable for those workouts. I haven't heard about anything like that for a decade now--so it seems clear that our previous coaching staffs instilled a sense of drive and competition in our players that made them want to push themselves harder than our recent staffs (under Shannon and Golden in particular) have done.
That competitive drive is what's been causing us to lose games over the last decade. Well, that and crappy schemes and crappy game-day coaching. Point is that an IPF isn't going to make a **** bit of difference to our W/L record. It's a bull**** excuse.
Who on God's green earth is arguing that an IPF will make a difference in the W/L column? Let me guess, you are going to follow up with, "herp derp then why does it matter?"
So the argument FOR it is that A) "we're losing practice time," and B) "everyone else has one." But no one knows how much practice time we're actually losing...And no cares or knows why our players aren't taking it upon themselves to make up any practice time lost.
So, yeah, you're right. it's obviously a necessity.
Herp derp indeed.
Honestly...what would you rather spend ~20 mil on...an IPF or a competent coaching staff? An IPF or a top-notch weight room that would rival Bama's? An IPF or put 20 mil toward a long-term plan to build a new stadium?
My point is that there are better, more urgently needed things to spend this money on. If we had a great staff, a great weight room, a great stadium...****, I'd be all for it. But as is, this is a great example of the phrase "putting lipstick on a pig."
The choice isnt ipf or staff. The choice is ipf or no ipf. these are college students also. they are full time students. If you schedule practice from 6-8 or 5-7 or whatever you have to stick to that. You cant just delay practice 2 hours due to lightning, and expect everything to be fine. this isnt their only job, they arent NFL players yet.
And the weight room definitely isnt the problem. We have weights. And everything we need. Thats not a current problem, so actually thats a much bigger waste than an ipf according to your own logic.
and saying we need an ipf isnt taking away from us getting a stadium. That will never happen, so building an ipf isnt taking away from that either.
It seems your entire argument is id rather spend money on new coaches, when that isnt even close to the two things we are choosing between
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As far as I'm aware, the funding for this IPF is not from an earmarked donation that MUST be used for an IPF or will be lost forever. UM can choose what to allocate money for within the football program and what not to. Your premise is full of crap.
Even with recent upgrades including the Schwartz Center, our weight room and athletic facilities are still very mediocre in the landscape of bigtime CFB. We went from a laughingstock to having facilities that are on par with an NC State or Pitt....but we're still a far cry from the top-tier programs. We could certainly choose to spend more and get those facilities up to the top level.
Likewise, we could also choose to allocate that money to a top-teir coaching staff next year or we could hold it out as a public statement that we are saving for a stadium of our own.
It's a matter of what UM athletics chooses to allocate its funding for. And IMO, an IPF is a poor choice.