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It’s hard enough recruiting against Alabama head coach Nick Saban after the Crimson Tide has won three of the last four BCS national titles.

Now opposing head coaches have to compete against this: Alabama’s brand-new weight room estimated at $9.1 million that will even make NFL franchises envious. According to a story last August, the facility is 34,000 square feet and includes a juice room, a nutrition bar and a medical office suite.

And judging by the photo below of the two-story facility tweeted by linebacker Matt Tinney, no Crimson Tide football player – or any other Alabama athlete, since the facility is for all sports – should ever have to wait in line to lift weights again.

Talk about impeccable timing. College football’s National Signing Day is on Wednesday, meaning there’s still time for uncommitted recruits to pick the Tide and others to flip to Alabama.

James Franklin, you’ve been warned.

[SB Nation]

4:41 PM on 2/4/2013
  • oldbamafan

    Wow!

  • Gekabee

    Just think how many students could have been educated with this kind of money and gone on to have better lives than they’ll now have because they couldn’t afford to go to college. It’s a pretty sad commentary on the priorities of our society – and I’m a football fan.

    • OldCobraGuy

      You are looking at this wrong…very superficial. You need to look at the long term investment. Think of all the student athletes that will utilize this to become more productive. And how many recruits will come to Alabama as a result of the investment in their future. All this makes Alabama stronger…a winner…and a huge draw to fans and television. This creates dollars. Now, go look at the dollars the Athletic Department has contributed to scholarships…academic and athletic…and tell me this isn’t worth it. You will be pleasantly surprised at what they do for the students of Alabama…athletes or otherwise.

      • Bobcat167

        If their football facilities are like most universities, the rest of the athletes at Alabama will not be permitted to use this facility. When I was wrestling in college, the football team got a brand new multi-million dollar weight room, locker room, physical therapy facility, etc. No other team was permitted to use it. From conversations I’ve had with plenty of other former college athletes, we were not the exception. Football only facilities are a pretty common occurance, especially at the D1 level. This is all about football and impressing recruits. The other student athletes (the ones on teams where they actually graduate) will continue to make due with the scraps from the football team.

        • drsl920

          You are wrong. This facility IS for ALL UA teams. Do your homework.

          • Johnny Rebel

            49 other states don’t give a rip; they all marry their cousins in Alabama anyway. Keep rationalizing your gross ignorance and don’t even try to pull your collective heads out … they already are.

    • cc3838

      I am so tired of ignorant people like you making this comment. If you bother to pull yourself out of your own delusional brand of self pity and actually do some research you would learn that most universities do not spend any money on these types of improvements. The money is raised through private donations and booster funds that are contributed to the universities endowment fund. The same way athletic scholarships are paid for. It doesn’t impact the ability of one student to either be accepted or educated by the university. Secondly, the ability of the football program to raise the status of the university, funds more academic and research dollars therefore, improving the quality of the education that every student attending the university receives now and for many generations to come. Educate yourself before you post ignorant comments like this. By the way do a little research on the size of endowment funds at universities with major college football programs vs those funds of schools that do not. You will find a significant difference and that fund also funds the expansion of educational facilities as well. Without football there are fewer educational opportunities.

  • http://twitter.com/gdomer1 brian

    It was this or a library

    • Steve

      Thats asinine. The athletic dept WAY more than pays for itself.

  • Lynyrd

    RMFTR!!

  • mitch226

    Iam sure it has a “JUICE ROOM”.

  • MD CUBFAN

    ALABAMA + SEC = FOOTBALL FACTORY.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000259916557 Danny Herron Jr.

    Where do they keep the Deer Spray? I also wonder where they house the test takers? They use the same ones to provide clean urine samples as well as to take test to keep their “brain surgeons” academically eligible. The best way to get an ex Bama player off your porch is to pay him for the pizza.

    • Steve

      Yeah tell the 20 millionaires in NFL from Bama right now. ROFL. What an idiot.

    • http://www.facebook.com/cantrell.cooling Cantrell Cooling

      joe you are jealous,name calling is what cowards do. visit us down here
      you might like it.

  • Leonard Sapp

    Where is the deer antler spray station?

  • jarrett

    plan to be there one day

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeff-Brown/100003742275209 Jeff Brown

    hmmmm…odd that they would do this the day before national signing day!

  • Johnny Rebel

    Figures; the state that ranks near the bottom on any academic scale believes this makes a difference in the lives of its students. What a sick pathetic commentary on the Deep South.

  • LSUTIGERDOG!

    YOU NEED TO CHECK OUT THE ” LSU FIGHTING TIGERS” 11 MILLION DOLLARS WEIGHT FACILITY! GEAUX TIGERS!!!

  • Tugger

    Absolutely outstanding!!!!! Nothing hurts a good workout more than standing around getting cold.All the intensity is gone.Hard to start,wait,restart;over&over.

  • JoeJoe

    As coach Winters once said
    “when was the last time 80,000 people showed up to watch a kid do a damn chemistry experiment? “

  • sirnose0

    Dam!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Rosga

    You want state of the art? You should see Nebraska (bigger and more complete). Always state of the art, no expense spared.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/William-Williams/777939233 William Williams

    Just think how many more championships will be built here, lol! Roll Tide Roll.

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