💬 Harbaugh complaining, but is it a legit point? Should visitors locker rooms have A/C?

[alagator]

If you guys recall, Bama had the same thing happen to them a few years ago on their trip to A&M. But, there's this thing about preparation with Saban.

If you don't recall, there was a tweet sent out before the game from Daniel Geddes (surprised I remember who it was) referencing the A/C wasn't working and that A&M had, literally, cut the size of the locker room in half.

However ... that word ... preparation. Alabama had brought extra A/C units and were prepared.

Now, I've seen reference to the medical areas being unsanitary. IF that's truly the case something needs to be done in the form of legislation.

Now, to the question at hand ...

What should visiting teams expect? Is there a level of "decency" here?

Here's one article discussing Harbaugh's "rant" about the conditions at Purdue.

 

[BAMAneck]

Common courtesy.

 

[TerryP]

Common courtesy.

And Harbaugh bitching if we're just talking about the A/C. Michigan KNEW about that before the game: a long time before the game.

 

[alagator]

And Harbaugh bitching if we're just talking about the A/C. Michigan KNEW about that before the game: a long time before the game.

Exactly!

Purdue responds to Harbaugh and you can see they were notified in July there was no A/C.

You guys will have to click on the tweet to see the full transcript. It's two pages/tweets.

 

[TerryP]

I'm left wondering about something here...

Michigan, over the off-season, decides to take a trip to Italy and spends almost 1 million on the trip. It's labeled educational but we all know it's all about publicity and recruiting, right? Setting the reasons for the trip aside for a moment here ...

If a school can spend that much on an overseas trip, I have to wonder why they can't afford portable air conditioning units?

It's these types of questions that make me say "Harbaugh bitching" and seeking his "face time."

That said, @BAMAneck brings up a good question/thought. Is it common courtesy? Or, gamesmanship? Notre Dame growing the grass a little higher...Auburn watering the field...CM turning the heat up in Coleman...a lot of different stories about things like this.

 

[OldPlayer]

Turnabout is fair play. What will happen when Purdue visits Michigan?

 

[BAMAneck]

Now that's a different story. They should have been prepared... But if a player ever had a heat stroke or any other problem caused by over heating . In today's culture , there would be litigation .


There would be any number of ambulance chasers waiting at the hospital to "help out " .

 

[BamaFan334]

I think these guys are getting beat up and fighting their ass off for two halfs, and I don't think A/C is too much to ask for. After all, wouldn't you want it in 95 degree weather?

 

[bama alum]

He's waiting for your call, Harbaugh.

 

[bamaledge]

Common decency! The visiting locker room should be, almost, as nice as the home teams. Then what I would do is turn the air down to 36 degrees.

 

[OldPlayer]

Common decency! The visiting locker room should be, almost, as nice as the home teams. Then what I would do is turn the air down to 36 degrees.

This will never happen. Have you seen Alabama's locker room in BDS compared to the Fail room?

 

[rick4bama]

I always thought that the visitor locker room was always smaller than the home team locker room. It the code of football.

 

[TerryP]

This will never happen. Have you seen Alabama's locker room in BDS compared to the Fail room?

Yes, and I've also heard opponents say it's nicer than their own home locker rooms.