I've never, ever heard, in a press conference, video clip or public speaking engagement, a Griz coach from Joe Glenn to Bob Stitt, blame a single loss on the piss poor facilities the Grizzly football team has had over the years. I've never once, ever heard a single player blame a loss, let alone, not winning a national championship on the weight room they've had to train in over the last two-plus decades. Havre I heard them, players and coaches, bitch about what a dump the locker rooms and weight rooms have been? Yup, heard plenty of complaining, and have even been inside it all many times, just to see for myself. But, I've never heard an actual member of the football program in my time say it was the reason the Griz lost or the reason a team under-achieved. Not once.
The new facility is going to be awesome, it is long overdue. I've always said, we as Griz fans have had it pretty damn good. We have one of the premier palaces in FCS football in which to watch games 6-10 Saturday's a year. The athletes who we watch, have not had it as good. Their every-day facilities were the exact opposite of a palace. So, the Champions Center, and hopefully, the eventual remodel of the infrastructure of Dahlberg Arena is long, long overdue, and very much deserved. But, having said all that, none of it will win games on Saturday, just like the current, and soon-to-be old facilities, didn't lose games over the last 20 years either.
