John Shipley: Gophers’ mammoth Athletes Village has no space for excuses

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per Shipley:

If P.J. Fleck leads Minnesota football to its first Big Ten title since 1967, there are a couple of predecessors he’d better bring up the moment the Gophers clinch. The U’s new coach has a resume that augurs success, but a tour of the half-completed Athletes Village on Thursday made clear that much of the heavy lifting already has been done.

If a recruit gets through 336,000 square feet of locker rooms, weight rooms, indoor football fields, basketball courts, skyways, hot tubs, cold tubs, kitchens, kitchenettes, tutoring rooms and players lounges and still chooses to attend another school, it won’t be because of facilities.

Henceforth, Gophers coaches looking for excuses will have only the furious Minnesota winters to blame, and even that is mitigated by a nicer skyway system than St. Paul has. No wonder Fleck is always smiling.

http://www.twincities.com/2017/07/2...th-athletes-village-has-no-space-for-excuses/

Go Gophers!!
 


Thank goodness for this article by John Dipship...otherwise we wouldn't know that the $160 million spent should come with expectations. In JD's next article he will discuss at length the importance of soap when washing your ass in the shower and then his 5 part series on how important salt is to safe sidewalks in the winter.
 

There would have been but they had to build out the Gopher Athletic Scandal Center.
 

Thank goodness for this article by John Dipship...otherwise we wouldn't know that the $160 million spent should come with expectations. In JD's next article he will discuss at length the importance of soap when washing your ass in the shower and then his 5 part series on how important salt is to safe sidewalks in the winter.

You sound a bit surly this morning but your comment did result in a good chuckle.
 



its winter in minnesota, it sucks, just own it - some kids/people will NEVER want to deal with it, and that's ok
 

Does Shipley write this article about his beloved alma mater in Iowa City when they get new facilities?
 




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