DAN HAWKINS UNDERSTANDS ALL, FORGIVES.

Anyone notice theres some younger New Wave type coaches, Hawkins and Carroll (perhaps others), who are all about the spirituality and their psyche and all that stuff that the old guard dealt with by smoking unfiltered cigarettes and drinking heavily.

“Don’t try to bend the spoon – that’s impossible. Rather, try to realize the truth…There is no spoon.”

It’s Division 1 football!

bubble? wth is that referring to?

“Welcome to the Planet—arium.”

1. if you’re serious, it’s a rather large indoor athletic complex with a tarpaulin-type roof (instead of rigid roof) good for indoor practices, hosting sporting events during inclement weather (tennis, track, etc.). If you’re not serious, please excuse my Cliff Clavin moment.

This guy has read way too many self-help books and watched too much Deepak Chopra and Wayne Dyer on PBS.

Dan needs to return to sea level before it’s too late.

1. Thanks, OOC. Not everyone is familiar with everyone else’s practice facilities. I was wondering that myself.

Just because I as a Floridian know which is the only school in Florida that has an indoor practice facility doesn’t mean I’d expect people elsewhere to know that.

what’s an indoor practice facility?

at USC, we don’t need such things, as we bask in constant sunshine and perfect weather.

that said, we in los angeles are at the forefront for developing bullet-proof recreation facilities.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-design26mar26,1,7301127,full.story

similar designs may be considered for USC’s next practice field, so as to protect the kids from stray bullets or rick neuheisal and his dirty tricks.

do they make bulletproof bubbles?

Hawkins is moving up the ladder of awesome coaches in my book.

That book consists of :

Pete Carroll
Mike Leach
Mark Mangino
Urban Meyer
Ed Orgeron (May God rest his soul)

Out of conference,
A cold beer to you for such a clutch Cliff Clavin reference. Outstanding. And I have to strongly agree with #8. Somebody better do something quick before the Hawk actually does sprout wings and leaves us permanently to bask in his celestial glory.

Sorry, Dave. I didn’t mean to sound condescending in my response. I just figured if my less than stellar athletic department had one, then all schools do and guessed that not everyone calls it a bubble like we do.

thanks OOC. yeah i had no idea it was referred to as a bubble

socalbryan = yea your domed practice facilities would be more for pollution control, I suppose.

15 – no doubt

No worries, no offense taken. The school in Florida with the indoor practice facility is UCF, by the way, the school that recently had a player tragically collapse and pass away. It just goes to show how important discovering preexisting conditions is, since not even practicing at a constant 75 degrees can prevent unfortunate things from happening.

The O’Connell Center (UF’s basketball arena) used to have the inflato-roof until a few years ago, and you can still see the giant air ducts at the top of the place.