Got an email with two pics of the new baskets in Crisler Arena with the new NBA-style shot clocks (click for full size). They look good (besides the pictures being from a camera phone), and every little touch goes a long way in my opinion. For this year we have new baskets & shotclocks, scorers table scoreboard, speakers, student ticket policy, and court design. It’s not going to turn Crisler into a world class facility but at least there are efforts being made to spruce up the environment.
Hoops looks great.
Hopefully an overhaul of the concourse is in the near future.
Don’t hold your breath. With the economy and the massive football projects Crisler looks how it is going to look for the next 3 years at least. I’d hope for a practice facility before they revamp Crisler.
Has there been ANY word on a practice facilty? Plans in the works? Two years and a rendering coming out? Ground breaking within five years? Clearly, nothing from U of M, but is there any “word” on the street as to when??
Recruits have mentioned it, so I believe there is something in the works…
3 years… Darius and the boys will be practicing in a new facility by November 2011, mark my words.
Seriously though, I do have very good reason to believe this timetable is the truth.
What they need to do is to . . .
****COMPLETELY GUT CRISLER ARENA!!!!****
AND I say that as someone who is a fan of it (and who has been attending games there since the 1986-87 season [Antoine Joubert's, Garde Thompson's Senior years for the Old-timers on here :.) + ;.)]). What they should then do is temporarily play the Basketball games at Yost until a new Basketball Arena is built (this is not unprecedented in terms of Basketball and Hockey teams playing their games in the same venue [Ohio State does this currently, for example, as well as Wisconsin] to name a couple). This will “build up the demand” (especially if they start doing well and/or overacheiving sooner rather than later), easily to be at maximum capacity, creat a true sense of excitement, anticpation, etc. etc.. If anybody is curious, I can even tell you how big (i.e. the Seating Capacity) should be and what it would be (more or less) named. *Musket Rebellion* — I do agree that the Practice Facility should come first before any modifications/revampments/complete Guttings (of Crisler Arena) would occur. I can speak more but I don’t want to get on my soapbox (and therefore get emotional, upset, enraged, agitated, frustrated, pissed off, disgusted and, in short, stressed [out]). TAKE ME WORD FOR IT (e.g. on the latter)!!!! Peace.
–WOLVERINE