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Originally Posted by cpayne5

Think about the scale, though. The Skins' gym has to support 60 football players where the Texas and LSU facilities must support 400-500 student athletes (swimmers, track athletes, football players, etc).

Football and basketball are the only money makers at schools and usually get preferential treatment. Its not like Texas’ football team has to fight for time over the bench press with the archery team.

I went to VCU which only has a bball team as their money maker, and had friends that worked at the gym. When the 20 or so person basketball team took over the gym they took it over, they didn’t share with anyone. In the few years ive been out its changed and I think they may have a dedicated gym now. VCU does not have a major college athletics program plus land is tough to come by in Richmond city, so I would think bigger athletic schools would give even more to their bigger revenue producing sports.

Also VT just unveiled their new basketball facility, which is absolutely ridiculous. I think its supposed to be one of the nicer ones in the entire country, but just the basketball program has its own weight training facility (images 23-25). Not sure what their football facility is like but im sure its pretty nice too. I would bet a lot of the big named schools (where a lot of big named players attended) have separate facilities for their football program and maybe basketball too so that they don’t have to share space and more importantly time with the archery and swim team.

http://www.hokiesports.com/facilities/hahnhurst.html

I can get a pretty good work out in my spare room with my set of powerblocks (theyre actually really sweet), perfect pushups and old computer monitor hooked up playing p90x but im only a borderline amateur athlete (not really). So maybe facilities don’t matter all that much. But the truth is the Redskin’s practice facility is a downgrade from most big named schools.