We Are Not The Knights
by Sailor Ripley on Nov 23, 2010 4:02 PM CST
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PrintAt Texas, we've often said we're the Joneses but apparently we are not the Knights.
Oregon is trying to wrestle the mantle of University with most bad ass facilities away from us with the new Howard Roark-designed Len Casanova Center, which will be privately funded through the philanthropy of Phil and Penny Knight and thus not include any use of public, state or general university fund dollars. Those funds will be laundered and saved for recruiting. Or something.
Dayum!
A few of the highlights about the six story, $41 million dollar project...
At the center of the project will be a 130,000-square-foot expansion of the athletics department’s primary facility that currently houses the majority of department’s administrative and coaches offices, meeting rooms, training and medical treatment facilities, as well as locker rooms for four intercollegiate athletics programs.
But wait, there's more...
Featured in the expansion, which will wrap around the north and west sides of the Casanova Center, will be a new 25,000-square-foot weight room perched on the edge of three practice fields - an enhanced grass football practice field as well as the addition of two new synthetic turf practice fields - and a full-service dining facility available to all University athletes, students and staff.
And even more...
At the heart of the facility, which is cloaked in black metal and glass, is a centralized football operations center that will include nine dedicated football position meeting rooms, two team video theaters, offense and defense strategy rooms as well as a larger conference suite for the entire coaching staff. The centralized area will be flanked by office and locker facilities for coaches, staff and student-athletes. Additional amenities will include a players’ lounge, a recruiting center to host prospective student-athletes, dedicated areas to accommodate professional scouts and street agents, a media interview room as well as an advanced video editing and distribution center.
No mention of a dedicated sweat shop area to crank out whatever this week's uniform choice is.
For more on this, head over to Go Ducks.
(h/t: Sports By Brooks)
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Nice but I’m still not impressed as Texas poontang > Oregon poontang.
by TangentOrange on Nov 23, 2010 4:08 PM CST reply actions
Eh, Post-Pre-Post-Post-Post-Modern architecture does nothing for me.
by Capability Brownnose on Nov 23, 2010 4:13 PM CST reply actions
TangentOrange said:
November 23rd, 2010 at 3:08 pm
Nice but I’m still not impressed as Texas poontang > Oregon poontang.
Just ask Cleve Bryant
by maninblack on Nov 23, 2010 4:14 PM CST reply actions
I don’t know. If I’m a recruit, all those ghosts walking around would creep me the fuck out.
by mr. sunshine on Nov 23, 2010 4:23 PM CST reply actions
Tangent:
I will never discount Texas women, but do a google image search of “Oregon cheerleaders”.
by ColoradoAg on Nov 23, 2010 4:23 PM CST reply actions
Howard Roark was a shitty architect, and Ayn Rand is an even worse author.
Capability Brownnose just lost all my respect.
by roach on Nov 23, 2010 4:27 PM CST reply actions
Rooks, imo. This is just sick. I recall somewhere that players voted Oregon’s unis the coolest in the country. Under the table money or no, there’s some very good reasons to want to play in Eugene.
by jc25 on Nov 23, 2010 4:29 PM CST reply actions
Bob Bowerman is turning over in his grave.
by Davey O'brien on Nov 23, 2010 4:36 PM CST reply actions
Who the hell is Bob Bowerman?
And why can’t I get my name on anything, I coached Dan Fouts!
by Jerry Frei on Nov 23, 2010 4:48 PM CST reply actions
Bill Bowerman also might be spinning a bit.
by Bob in Houston on Nov 23, 2010 4:54 PM CST reply actions
Please tell me the bit about street agents was in the actual press release.
by hornshornshorns on Nov 23, 2010 5:00 PM CST reply actions
Looks a little like the shopping center/abattoir from Logan’s Run.
And holy fuck, that place is haunted! Look at all them ghosts walking around the grounds!
by CrazyJoeDavola on Nov 23, 2010 5:01 PM CST reply actions
by Davey O'brien on Nov 23, 2010 5:24 PM CST reply actions
Logan’s Run came to mind as well.
First they take LaMichael, Darron, and Lache, but now they’re targeting our wimmenz !
by triplehorn on Nov 23, 2010 5:29 PM CST reply actions
Ostentatious nouveau riche west coast trash.
That said, I am very jealous.
by bigdukesix on Nov 23, 2010 6:19 PM CST reply actions
The year we played Oregon in the tourney we had a big party out here with a bunch of Oregon alums. I was surprised – nay, stunned – at the talent level. Plenty of blonde heads too, which was nice. I still can’t figure it out, but based on that experience I wouldn’t be too quick to dismiss.
by Black Scholes on Nov 23, 2010 6:51 PM CST reply actions
I can’t speak for Eugene, because I’ve never been there. However, I’ve been to Portland several times because my bro-in-law used to live there. I asked him why there weren’t any pretty girls in Portland and he said “all the hot ones move to california when they turn 18”.
Maybe Oregon gets some hot out-of-staters to go to school there.
by Nero on Nov 23, 2010 7:38 PM CST reply actions
Didn’t the Ducks pick up a commitment today from a blue chip linebacker from Dallas? Eugene is becoming a place to be for Texas HS talent.
by Ron Baxter on Nov 23, 2010 7:39 PM CST reply actions
Re: triplehorn’s link — Mmmmm. Jenny Agutter. Vastly underrated.
by CrazyJoeDavola on Nov 23, 2010 9:33 PM CST reply actions
“Under the table money or no, there’s some very good reasons to want to play in Eugene.”
Winning is a good reason.
And Oregon has some beautiful areas.
by LurkerintheDark on Nov 23, 2010 9:34 PM CST reply actions
Casanova Center?? Really? Casanova!
More of a reference to 80s music than some famous Oregonian (?).
Great song, rename the facility.
by cco on Nov 23, 2010 11:42 PM CST reply actions
+1 for the Howard Roark reference, as well as slipping in the pro/street agent comment.
by SydneyCarton on Nov 24, 2010 7:27 AM CST reply actions
It’s really hard to fathom that kids like Oregon’s uniforms until you realize what those shitheads are wearing these days. In a day when filigree turns to tribal which morphs into dragons, what’s wrong with some displaced diamond plating? I’m guessing wide leather bracelets replacing wristbands and faux mohawks on top of the helmets that seems to be all the rage with the rice rocketeering set will be the next level.
Hot ass lives everywhere, someplaces just more than others. Women in the NW wear wool panties though, beware.
by magnusbleuveigner on Nov 24, 2010 7:32 AM CST reply actions
I doubt the dirty hippies in Oregon wear wool anything. Hemp panties maybe.
by Daniel on Nov 24, 2010 12:32 PM CST reply actions
Keep thinking about it Daniel. You’re on to the hippie part. What hygiene practice do they often neglect?
by magnusbleuveigner on Nov 24, 2010 1:15 PM CST reply actions
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