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Updated: July 31, 2007, (CT)
by www.LSUsports.net |
| LSU’s Football Operations Center is an all-in-one facility that includes football offices, a locker room, a training room, an equipment room and a video operations center. The $15 million facility is located on Skip Bertman Drive at the Charles McClendon Practice Facility. Built in 2006, the facility is one of the finest of its kind in college athletics, allowing more efficient time for dressing, training and practicing for the LSU football team. |  |
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The Atrium of the Football Operations Center displays the great moments in LSU football history, including the 1958 and 2003 National Championship seasons. |
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| Billy Cannon’s 1959 Heisman Trophy is on display in the atrium. |  |
| Charles McClendon Practice Facility The facility features four 100-yard football practice fields as well as an indoor practice facility. On Sept. 9, 2002, LSU formally named its football practice facility for Charles McClendon, the winningest football coach in school history. McClendon, a member of the National Football Foundation Hall of Fame, served as head coach at LSU for 18 seasons, a span that saw the Tigers play in 13 bowl games, compiling a 137-59-7 overall mark. |
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Indoor Field |
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| A life size bronze statue of a Bengal tiger greets visitors to the Football Operations Center. |  |
| LSU’s 194 first-team All-Southeastern Conference selections are honored on a wall outside the weight room. |  |
| LSU’s 66 All-Americans are honored in the atrium. |  |
| One of the many kiosks in the atrium, this one displays items from the 1958 National Championship season. |  |
| Locker Room The Football Operations Center locker room has 140 stations with lockable storage bins and a padded sitting area. The room also includes four plasma screen TVs and six 27-inch TVs. The locker room also includes a player’s lounge with a 70-inch TV and two 42-inch plasma TVs with two X-box consoles, a pool table, foosball table, and four computers with internet access. |
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| Shirley & Bill Lawton Squad Room The main auditorium, that includes a 144 spacious theatre-style seats for team meetings and film sessions, has state-of-the-art audio and visual components necessary for meetings, lectures and reviewing of game tapes. |
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| Position Meeting Room |  |
| Coaches Meeting Room |  |
| Recruiting Lounge |  |
| Equipment Room |  |
| State-of-the-Art Video Center One of the most state-of-the-art video centers in the nation is housed in the Football Operations Center, complete with editing equipment to produce highlight videos and review game film. |
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