Great new pics of Training Facility!

[Volgrad98]

Awesome pics, I would love to get a tour.

 

[Roustabout]

I just Google'd Best university athletic facilities and read several articles. No mention of Tennessee anywhere. I think we have nice facilities, but we probably do not understand the true nature of what we are up against with regard to recruiting the best players and coaches. We are good, but I suspect we think we are bigger/better/more respected/more famous than we really are. This is more evidence that Tennessee fans, while wonderful in many respects, are often considered deluded.

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Heck, ESPN put us at #3 in the SEC.
2012 Facilities rank - College Football Nation Blog - ESPN

Tennessee didn't even make the top-20 in this list, although several other SEC schools did:
Universities With The Best College Sports Programs

This one doesn't have UT in the top-four of the SEC:
Top 10 Most Athletic Colleges

And this, frankly, is why we should be careful about getting what we wish for:
When Colleges Recruit Athletes, Everyone Loses - Forbes

Oh please, the one link list the Georgia Institue of Tech as best. Has nothing to do with Football but college life.
The other article is a few years old, and of course UT is just putting on the finishing touches. Ut's facilities will be on par with any in the country.

 

[carolinaviking]

UT is just putting on the finishing touches. Ut's facilities will be on par with any in the country.

This is the line I've been hearing for over two decades now. Point being, our facilities have always been held up to me as elite, premiere or among-the-best. Yet as I think about it, I only ever heard that from Vols fans. If they had been that good all this time, one would think we would see more mention of it. And while some of the other schools mentioned in these articles just put "the finishing touches" on their brand-new facilities, some mentioned were decades old.

Don't get me wrong. I know we have killer facilities. There is nothing wrong with being ranked 21st on such a list (no matter how meaningless that list). But I hear it said here and other places that UT facilities are not 21st but rather number one. I want us to be the best. I want us to have great facilities. But I often wonder if we really have a grip on reality here.

I'm not talking about Neyland; we all know where the stadium ranks.

 

[vol_in_ar]

thanks for posting the pics

looks great

 

[Roustabout]

This is the line I've been hearing for over two decades now. Point being, our facilities have always been held up to me as elite, premiere or among-the-best. Yet as I think about it, I only ever heard that from Vols fans. If they had been that good all this time, one would think we would see more mention of it. And while some of the other schools mentioned in these articles just put "the finishing touches" on their brand-new facilities, some mentioned were decades old.

Don't get me wrong. I know we have killer facilities. There is nothing wrong with being ranked 21st on such a list (no matter how meaningless that list). But I hear it said here and other places that UT facilities are not 21st but rather number one. I want us to be the best. I want us to have great facilities. But I often wonder if we really have a grip on reality here.

I'm not talking about Neyland; we all know where the stadium ranks.

And keep in mind, 'best' is subjective. Oregon has some very over the top stuff that has nothing to do with football.
Facilities relates more now to training facilities, and don't really include the stadium. As we know the stadium has a new locker room and press room. Even those improvements post date some of these articles. If you look at the entire compound which includes the stadium locker room, the Lawson Complex, etc, I would say it's on par with the top 5% in the country. UT has had a 100 yard indoor field for a while now. Now that the new stuff is open, it will be available for tours and included in the media guide.

 

[VOLracerx]

No I don't. Check out their facility. It's several years old now and freaking amazing.

I've been in that facitly and its not as great as you would think. Most of the larger schools are on par as far as facilities are concerned.

 

[Brillovol]

I just Google'd Best university athletic facilities and read several articles. No mention of Tennessee anywhere. I think we have nice facilities, but we probably do not understand the true nature of what we are up against with regard to recruiting the best players and coaches. We are good, but I suspect we think we are bigger/better/more respected/more famous than we really are. This is more evidence that Tennessee fans, while wonderful in many respects, are often considered deluded.

Given that our new training facility just opened, I have to think we'd move up on all of these lists. Chris Low mentions it, but was just going off of concept drawings and pressers. IIRC, UTAD used Oregon and OkSt as measuring sticks with the intent to exceed these facilities.