BigEasyDawg
10-05-2017, 11:48 AM
A really interesting read about college football visiting team locker rooms and how they are intentionally made to suck.
http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/20918212/visiting-locker-rooms-college-football-nice-reason
Mike Leach was quoted on visiting Mississippi State and in the visiting locker rooms. Very awesome!!
Leach told a tale of visiting Mississippi State during his time as Kentucky's offensive coordinator. When the Wildcats went to load their gear into Davis Wade Stadium, they walked into what was essentially a bedroom-sized concrete box. Lining the bare walls of that box was a series of naked nails.
"I remember exactly how many there were, because I counted them. There were 38," Leach recalled. With 70 players, it meant half the team's pads were hung while the other half sat on the floor.
After the team dressed, the players started down the famous spiral ramps that lead to Scott Field. Leach has no idea what the home side's spiral was like, but the visiting side was poured with concrete that had been polished to the point that it was like gray ice.
"[Then-Kentucky head coach] Hal (Mumme) gave the team their speech and they were all fired up and blew out the door," Leach said, "... and they had to tip toe down to the field while hanging onto the railing."
Were Leach and Mumme angry?
"Hell no," Leach said. "As soon as I saw [then-Mississippi State head coach] Jackie Sherrill I shook his hand and told him I was damn impressed."
But the hand that Sherrill shook was all but guaranteed to be dirty, no matter whose hand he was shaking. This is because there were only a few old working sinks in the visiting locker room. These were used (or not) after utilizing one of two toilets -- located in the center of the room for all to view -- that had no seats, assumedly broken off by enraged previous visitors.
http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/20918212/visiting-locker-rooms-college-football-nice-reason
Mike Leach was quoted on visiting Mississippi State and in the visiting locker rooms. Very awesome!!
Leach told a tale of visiting Mississippi State during his time as Kentucky's offensive coordinator. When the Wildcats went to load their gear into Davis Wade Stadium, they walked into what was essentially a bedroom-sized concrete box. Lining the bare walls of that box was a series of naked nails.
"I remember exactly how many there were, because I counted them. There were 38," Leach recalled. With 70 players, it meant half the team's pads were hung while the other half sat on the floor.
After the team dressed, the players started down the famous spiral ramps that lead to Scott Field. Leach has no idea what the home side's spiral was like, but the visiting side was poured with concrete that had been polished to the point that it was like gray ice.
"[Then-Kentucky head coach] Hal (Mumme) gave the team their speech and they were all fired up and blew out the door," Leach said, "... and they had to tip toe down to the field while hanging onto the railing."
Were Leach and Mumme angry?
"Hell no," Leach said. "As soon as I saw [then-Mississippi State head coach] Jackie Sherrill I shook his hand and told him I was damn impressed."
But the hand that Sherrill shook was all but guaranteed to be dirty, no matter whose hand he was shaking. This is because there were only a few old working sinks in the visiting locker room. These were used (or not) after utilizing one of two toilets -- located in the center of the room for all to view -- that had no seats, assumedly broken off by enraged previous visitors.