A Sea Of Red

I don't know if anyone has posted this or not, but there is a very nice video special on the FOC located on www.libertyflames.com. Though I've been inside of the FOC, I've never had a tour, so it was nice to see what all of the fuss is about


http://www.libertyflames.com/index.cfm? ... 34&TeamID=

Watched the video. That weight room is huge with room to add more things. Probably bigger than what most 1A programs have. Locker room is very big. Very impressive structure to say the least. Have not been through it but maybe I will this fall if I come down for a game.

Guys, I have been in many college facilities, including Ohio State, and this place is special. Attention to detail, form, and function is as good as I have seen. True appreciation for the quality of this place is to observe this facility on game day, from the first meeting to the follow up on athletes in the training room. And I have seen additions in this video, since I was in there last season. I know these young men are blessed to have such care and opportunity. Also, notice the little clip of basic training, which is also a competitive event. Kill Bill rachetted up his standards and expectations this offseason as compared to last year. (Lots of love for this man right now!) I don't think anybody is settling, as you will see in the upcoming themes for 2008.

Stevev wrote:Watched the video. That weight room is huge with room to add more things. Probably bigger than what most 1A programs have. Locker room is very big. Very impressive structure to say the least. Have not been through it but maybe I will this fall if I come down for a game.

Weight room is the biggest in the country, it either the biggest in college football, or just the biggest at a college period.

the video didn't do the weight room justice... just walking around there you amped.

To the Left wrote

Weight room is the biggest in the country, it either the biggest in college football, or just the biggest at a college period.

West Virginia U has the biggest with 23K square feet, Texas A & M, U of Texas, and Alabama claim to have bigger weight rooms. Regardless of that, very impressive on LU's part to have something of that size and quality equal to 1A teams of that calibre.

Wow, that was great to see!

The best part of the FOC is that it is on the same level as most FBS schools.

You can tell we are preparing for Division 1-A football, hopefully in the near future!

I've been in the weight rooms at UT and A&M and the latter is the largest I have seen. It opened up about the same time as the FOC. UT's is roughly the same size as ours in square footage with more equipment crammed into it.

Suffice it to say that this is one area of a recruit's visit that leaves them the most impressed other than a conversation with our head coach.

In the video, both Gillespie and Samantha say the weight room has 100,000 TONS of weights. There is no way this is true. It is no doubt 100,000 POUNDS. 100,000 tons would be 200 million pounds, or about 3 million pounds per scholarship football player. I have to admit I'm surprised this got by editing, especially when the video emphasizes attention to detail so much.

FYI: 100,000 tons is the approximate displacement of a Nimitz class aircraft carrier.

Jerry probably had final say on the numbers before he passed.

olldflame wrote:In the video, both Gillespie and Samantha say the weight room has 100,000 TONS of weights. There is no way this is true. It is no doubt 100,000 POUNDS. 100,000 tons would be 200 million pounds, or about 3 million pounds per scholarship football player. I have to admit I'm surprised this got by editing, especially when the video emphasizes attention to detail so much.

FYI: 100,000 tons is the approximate displacement of a Nimitz class aircraft carrier.

It was asked the night it aired and was confirmed as correct! I find it hard to fathom as well!

Well, you gotta figure, there has to be THOUSANDS of pounds of weight for EVERY machine in that HUGE facility.

I can imagine it being that much weight.

Check the displacement (101,000 to 104,000 tons fully loaded) under General Characteristics on the right side of the page. This ship is closer to the size of our stadium than our weight room.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Nimitz_

A bit more research from another angle. It seems Olympic style plates go for about a buck a pound. Let's say we get a huge volume discount and pay $.50. Our weights alone would have cost us 100 million dollars.

I'm not sure who is responsible for this gaff, but they should fix it. It makes us look bad.

Knucklehead wrote:

olldflame wrote:In the video, both Gillespie and Samantha say the weight room has 100,000 TONS of weights. There is no way this is true. It is no doubt 100,000 POUNDS. 100,000 tons would be 200 million pounds, or about 3 million pounds per scholarship football player. I have to admit I'm surprised this got by editing, especially when the video emphasizes attention to detail so much.

FYI: 100,000 tons is the approximate displacement of a Nimitz class aircraft carrier.

It was asked the night it aired and was confirmed as correct! I find it hard to fathom as well!

Well the person who asked for confirmation should have realized they weren't talking to a math major when someone said " yeah thats right"

OK, here's the clincher. Steel weighs roughly 500 lb/cubic foot. Our weight room is 16,000 sq ft. Assuming a 10 foot ceiling, thats 160,000 cubic feet. If it were completely filled from floor to ceiling, it would hold 80 million pounds of solid steel. The video says we have 100,000 tons, which is 200 million pounds. What we actually have is either 100,000 POUNDS, or possibly 100 TONS, which is 200,000 pounds.

Not to mention the size of the footings and strength of concrete you'd need to bear that kind of weight

Its still a phenominal building. Interesting to see what others in the league come up with in the future.

What we have is amazing!! No need for exaggeration, either intentional or inadvertant. They need to fix the video. It looks bad for our strength coach to be giving out figures that are wrong by a factor of at least 1000/1 in an "informational" video. I can see some hater sampling this with some other clips pointing out the error and posting it on youtube.

Now who's gunna tell Bill

Fixed....enjoy. PS I enjoyed the comments about the aircraft carrier.....you guys are hillarious.

As you see atop the screen, we're not just intense and loyal by we have an abundance of opinions.

I appreciate the nice comments and hopefully we can highlight more items.

Good work on the edit.

Looking forward to future items Old School. Bill is in the mail for "fact-checking" services.