Inside the NORTHERN ARIZONA LUMBERJACKS’ $47,000,000 Student-Athlete Center | Royal Key

[@SportsDissected]

Here’s what it takes to feed the UT Football Team -> kzbin.info/www/bejne/eoDCe4RsgMSSic0

[@zachhk6108]

Hey can you do the Fordham Men’s Basketball facility and locker room?

[@turkishdelight6032]

THIS is how you recruit athletes who wouldn't otherwise consider your program; show them you're invested! I understand that the new weight room is shared by all sports, but it's better than many major D1 rooms. Good job NAU 👍

[@satanspit4101]

Except women sports. Known of those make the school money.

[@MatthewLangenbach]

@@satanspit4101 Actually, NAU is probably all around the best in the conference for women's programs. Every team is competitive, and cross country is getting real close to getting a Natty some time over the next few years. Same with track and field.

[@CoachBibbs]

This is a perfect example of non power 5 division 1 schools being high quality. I tell my players to seek these universities out in the recruiting process. If you have the grades and the film they’ll take you

[@cjmac4950]

Tucson guy here and this is awesome. Flagstaff is a hidden gem, especially in the summer when Phoenix and Tucson are in the 100+ temps... Great work NAU!!!!

[@mitchellmooso7658]

Construction on this building began about 2 years ago. Coincidentally at the same time COVID hit. NAU's response to the pandemic was to make massive cuts to the staff and department budgets. While at the same time beginning construction on a $47M sports complex. This was the 5th sports complex on campus. It's just a bad look.

[@ApplePi31415]

It's not like they could unspend the money...

[@shawnr.938]

Every time I have to walk or drive past that building it makes me so mad knowing teachers I have had classes with and liked got fired while they built this building. Really upsetting stuff

[@traviswilson36]

@@ApplePi31415 reinvest that into education. Duh. It's a university, it's goal should be education

[@ApplePi31415]

@@traviswilson36 idk what the deal is with nau but at the school I competed for, most of the money spent on athletics came from donors who specifically donated to the athletics department. If people want more money for education then lobby for some rich people or the state to give more.

[@traviswilson36]

@@ApplePi31415 lmao you are a college dropout

[@officialharvard751]

I’m happy schools are really starting to invest in track/xc. Oregon, NAU, Arkansas, and ole miss have all expanded and upgraded their facilities recently.

[@jamesfields2916]

I started college at NAU and graduated from Ole Miss!

[@therealdarrell282]

Agree because everybody cannot be great at basketball and football. You need football to be good to stabilize your other programs. There is nothing wrong with your school being great at baseball, hockey, tennis, golf, track or swimming.

[@manegrindshard]

Never heard of this school until this video. They were smart to get on this channel and get some exposure that will help boost the program.

[@dilby3246]

It's in a really beautiful area as well as you can see. I live in Phoenix but I try and take a drive up to Flagstaff a couple of times a year.

[@Mr-Sarcastic]

They won 4 NCAA D1 Titles in the past 5 years for Cross Country mainly because the elevation is high in Flagstaff but that led to them building this building

[@andresjg6]

I’m down in Phoenix, nice to see Arizona get represented. For anyone wondering, yes, Flagstaff is in a gorgeous pine forest at high elevation. Plenty of winter sports too. Go Lumberjacks!

[@brandonhorner8604]

I am a student here at NAU and have been seeing this building get built since I was a freshman. Love to see NAU getting some proper recognition and showing we're a real competitor! Skojacks

[@abimenlove2899]

So nice to see NAU spend so much money on athletes when other programs could use at least an elevator that works lol. This does seem super cool but I would love too see my school also fix existing problems too :/

[@eliseadler2931]

What elevator doesn’t work?

[@javy4596]

@@eliseadler2931 a lot of the dorms have Elevators that don’t work.

[@eliseadler2931]

I go to NAU and nobody I knew was in a dorm with broken elevators. Ik they broke for like a day but they were never consistently broken

[@javy4596]

@@eliseadler2931 it’s not just about dorms. It’s about everywhere. Dorms are a small part of it. But go off

[@javy4596]

@@eliseadler2931 that’s not even to mention how some of our science labs are lacking in equipment. How our physics lab is behind. Students pay to go to school here. Our money shouldn’t go towards athletes. The money they make from games should. But they don’t make any because no one goes they give away so many free tickets. It’s embarrassing for me whenever we play. We have so many empty seats. I feel bad for students. I got a free ride just because I can catch a ball. Well they pay to go here.

[@roccojelsomeno7907]

Best Cross Country program in the country right now

[@Alexanderthetitan]

Fight fight fight for NAU!

[@AnthonyWilliams_83]

Always finding these gem schools and facilities!!

[@jcjr1010]

Wish you could have visited UT- San Antonio when you were in TX. The university has invested in its student athletes with a newly built athletic center. Coach Traylor is doing something great with the football program.

[@HonanTio]

Just showed this to my dad who ran XC and Track for NAU back in the day, and said “Shoot…all we had was a small shack next to the outside track!!” 🤣🤣

[@kristen9987]

We’re from San Diego and just last weekend I moved my son up to NAU. He has an amazing opportunity to be a coaching assistant for football. He’s well on his way to living his dream.

[@brianperticari]

You can tell the level of thought that went in to this building. Very well done. Another awesome video.

[@davidsphere43]

I ride past this building every day riding the bus to class. I watched it get built beginning to end, always wondered what it actually was. Good video

[@CaseyCuller]

The altitude chamber is really awesome!

[@davidw2857]

This is really cool. No wonder NAU football got the #2 recruiting class in FCS just from showing this before it was even finished! Good things are in store.

[@josephbohatch6797]

That’s were my tuition money went to 😂

[@jayboom25]

That or the retiling of the union

[@chorizobandito8943]

Cry about it

[@seanrone3169]

You guys gotta check out the Walter facility at northwestern. That place is nuts

[@brandonmalik6641]

YESS I second this I’ve been it’s nuts

[@SuperZbros]

Kinda wild how such a small program can spend so much on this, really makes you appreciate how fucked up and overpriced college is

[@javy4596]

Or how they only care about sports

[@chorizobandito8943]

Chorizo

[@chorizobandito8943]

Nobody cares

[@ctk3316]

Do Montana state! Love to see the smaller schools!

[@johnclark7973]

💩😂

[@miccrhaafetl5101]

Let's go Ice Jacks! would be cool to do this for the Fieldhouse when it's finished.

[@ashhallberg7632]

Sure it's a great and nice looking center. But what needs to be considered is that there are many buildings at NAU with asbestos that desperately need to be renovated. There are dorms with it, academic buildings, and other areas across campus. There are many buildings that need the help that the money could've gone too. One such example is the music building where they have elevators from who knows when and stop causing students to become stuck in them. There are also the many professors that were laid off where their pay most likely went to this center. I understand that many may want this. But there are other areas on campus that really need that money too.

[@juliekramerga]

But they won't even let the students use it when they made us pay a fee! :)

[@HA-lc4ik]

Please come to the university of Wisconsin. I played on camp Randall for the state tournament it's an amazing experience!!

[@noworldforeric]

As a Buckeye alum, when I saw the Honing Stone, I immediately thought of the rubbing of the head @ Thompson Library.

[@Tamestreet]

I go to school here. I think they should take the fence around the field down, it was a public field before athletes got to it. They can keep it, just give it back to the rest of us ok?

[@emilyfredrickson4626]

cool, but would love if funding could be distributed equally amongst student interests

[@SantiagoHernandez-lb9ee]

Can you do the last arizona school:) please U of A😤🐻⬇️

[@goproaz2097]

Fun Fact. NAU had a student poll around 2008, they asked if students would be willing to pay $800 more a year so NAU could build this new "athlete center". It was overwhelmingly voted no. Guess they didnt care.

[@lousantiago7511]

This Eastern Eagle is a little envious right about now...Very nice digs guys! Well done.

[@jayboom25]

As an NAU student and Studnet employee, do i wish the staff got a rise, yes, but this athleteic center is super cool.

[@amietran3655]

Same lol been earing $12.15 for 2 years now 🥲

[@jayboom25]

@@amietran3655 At least we are getting a rise next semster

[@cormackjacobs65]

I absolutely love this. Giving content to all who wonder what it is really like in some of the top college sport facilities in the nation. I would suggest the facilities at University of Louisville. They have really great baseball, football, and basketball. There's also not a lot of content on it, you should check it out. Love the channel and the content. So sick.

[@kristianspringsteel6208]

Gotta go see the new West Virginia University football facility. Insanely nice.

[@ctg4693]

You guys gotta go to Wyoming and check out their new facility

[@Owen004]

I think a James Madison or a Sam Houston state football facilities tour would be cool

[@penguno9739]

If you compete against their distance runners your basically running against future olympians

[@suprememathematics7398]

He use to Nice Kicks celebrity sneaker reviews didn’t he?? That’s Motivation!

[@vincentkwon7679]

Can you do university of Arizona

[@FoXxRM]

Wow, great looking building!

[@iamsweets]

Did you guys tour Bank Bell Park while in AZ? Largest outdoor sports park in NA

[@maximusdecimusmeridious3784]

Please do this for every Big Sky school

[@levitaylor7677]

Please do Iowa States Stark Performance Center next 🙏

[@LemsterGtGod]

I love this

[@richardm.667]

Flagstaff: Hipster mountain town

[@azwwrkshp7272]

Go Lumberjacks 😎

[@rorylynch5466]

What sports do NAU generally do well in? Ik they’re good at cross country but what else

[@dilby3246]

Swimming I have heard they are good. Also they are decent at football. They're in the FCS but they get 5-7 wins every couple of years.

[@jamesfields2916]

Track and cross country. Football never as good as they should be with the increase in high school talent in Arizona.

[@rorylynch5466]

@@dilby3246 thanks bud

[@jensenbarton3734]

Cross country, track & field, volleyball, they’re football is pretty good and getting better. Swim & dive also very good. I played volleyball there and we went to NCAA tournament a couple times

[@jayboom25]

Cross coutry is our top one i think, which leans into track as well

[@steveoblue]

GO JACKS!!!

[@icompton22]

y’all need to go checkout Kansas facility!

[@huntercole7955]

Yet our dorms are outdated and falling apart and the art building looks like it hasn’t been cleaned or updated in 5 years

[@chorizobandito8943]

You're bitching in the wrong forum. I think an online school might be more to your liking

[@HeemIntrovert_Prout]

Really nice facility

[@jackcoen7098]

You should visit Iowa State’s new student athlete facility

[@Webrass]

Spending all that time talking about how nice the ponderosa pine trees are is hypocritical considering all the trees REMOVED to build this. There was a beautiful wall of forest surrounding that practice field and they tore it all down for this building.

[@chorizobandito8943]

Nobody cares Jen. What was it 15 trees? Jesus

[@ThatCoolDude8897]

We should do Virginia Tech

[@emmanuelthompson6154]

Can u do more nau videos

[@terrapins]

do maryland’s new football facilities

[@turkishdelight6032]

I agree. That new football weight room might be the best there is

[@terrapins]

@@turkishdelight6032 facts, glad you agree. maryland really needed the upgrade

[@bobbypaluga4346]

Ridicules to spend that kind of cash on a small group of students who have always been less than successful in the major sports.

[@kobyjackson2564]

Love the video but stop playing you know we want the LSU tour

[@jamesfields2916]

I saw an LSU one last week. It was the dining facility for athletes.

[@padraigjensen5492]

how is there snow?

[@hellaznipez9137]

Can we get videos of hbcu schools

[@SportsDissected]

SOON

[@gregorysanders9034]

Kevin Daniels !!!

[@isaiahanderson1951]

Do Boise state let’s see the blue field

[@SportsDissected]

Have you watched this video yet? 👉 kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXzRZomwfb2Eb7c

[@warren_tedford]

speechless

[@lucky_luciano2365]

Nice facility for a FCS school

[@doubanjiang]

Must be great to be a student athlete these days. Not so great to be a regular chump schnook student who never gets to set foot in these facilities, yet has to fork over ever-increasing tuition and fees that massively outpace inflation. And get nothing for their troubles except crushing debt and a chump change job upon graduation-if they’re lucky. Priorities, I guess…

[@chorizobandito8943]

I hope you had a terrible college experience

[@jacobfrost8684]

You should do a “What it takes to feed the isu athletes”

[@Tyb4040]

Do Tory University football team!!!

[@landonlee5536]

It snows in AZ?!

[@SportsDissected]

Crazy, right?!

[@Owen004]

Thank you for going to a smaller school

[@jakereidgolf6576]

My uncle went to nau He was a point Guard Josh Wilson

[@troypolamalusamoanislandsp4821]

Do Keiser University

[@lakes26mi]

you wonder why tuition has skyrocketed this is one of the reasons

[@lorenzohaynes3886]

Wonder what they'd do with a P5 budget.

[@danielpiasecki6001]

UConn basketball

[@troygamble7309]

spends millions of dollars on huge new expensive sports stadium meanwhile science programs like Geology barely surviving with decreasing funds and lack of professors. Get some priorities please, take it from an alumni

[@chorizobandito8943]

I'm an alum and I feel the exact opposite way you do. If cutting the geology dept. entirely meant the football team was just a tiny bit better, then I'd be for it.

[@traviswilson36]

@@chorizobandito8943 no one asked you. You're a dropout

[@SheffKane]

W

[@brandonlewis5135]

Lumberjacks did it right

[@yeperdoodles1276]

9:20

[@katieromero3030]

Show me Cosmas :)

[@seandenham3156]

I got to NAU and they SUCK at sports 🤣🤣🤣

[@eaglerare1273]

Now all they care about is my NIL check. Sad

[@aaron989]

Such a waste of funds. While this was being built, teachers were randomly told that they wouldn't have a job anymore or health insurance, during the heart of the pandemic. There's already a private area is the main school gym for student athletes. At the end of the day, university is a place for learning, not for sports. We shouldn't even have shorts apart of college in the United States as much as we do, because that's a part of why education costs so much in the US, let alone pick sports over higher learning.

[@chorizobandito8943]

This reply is almost unintelligible.

[@traviswilson36]

@@chorizobandito8943 I dislike you

[@alexanderclaudio9079]

No

[@jacksonrowley8158]

What a waste of our tuition. Guess they have their priorities

[@TheChrisbarry44]

Basket ball team down 23 at half. Hoops team is terrible.

[@cooperparzynski4675]

low key you slacking now you doing northern arizona. DAMN

[@dairyfreemilkyway239]

Get bent

[@aking4974]

Showcasing small programs? You goofy

[@traviswilson36]

You couldn't even get accepted into this university. Stop typing and read a book

[@officialharvard751]

Best cross country team in the nation by far

[@Owen004]

They the best in cross country bro

[@chrisreyes3848]

All we wanted was affordable housing 🥲