Swarbrick's role in pushing the new ice arena through gives
me hope that, if nothing else, he gets the fact that facilities are a huge part of the success of any college program.
An issue I'm hoping he can also push through is a training table for ND's student athletes. Given that proper nutrition is essential to strength and conditioning, I'm sort of baffled as to why ND doesn't have a training table. From most accounts I've heard, most of the big time college programs do. Am I overestimating the value of the training table? It seems like a no-brainer to me, but ND has thus far resisted.
The only reason anyone has ever given me as to why ND doesn't have a training table is because ND doesn't want to remove its athletes from the experience of a typical student any more than necessary. Thus, they don't want the athletes living/eating apart from ordinary students. However, I would think that proper nutrition would be a necessary component of athletic success. Asking that we have nutritionists and people to prepare the diets of our student athletes doesn't seem like it should be too big a problem. It isn't as if they're going to be dining one sweetbreads and caviar. It isn't like they'd be giving them penthouse hotel style accommodations.
I don't know, maybe they can add on to one of the dining halls and have the athletes grab their meals there, but eat with all of the other students?
Does anyone have any insight into the nutritional program of our athletes? Maybe I'm way off base. Admittedly, I'm basing my opinion and questions largely off of posts I've read on the various boards. Does anyone have a more informed opinion on the subject?
I think ND's dining hall makes the question more difficult.
by ReginaldVelJohnson 
, Friday, February 13, 2009, 11:58 (6256 days ago) @ tex29
I'm not sure what the nutritional program is like, but I am almost certain they have nutritionists telling them what to eat.
Training tables are important at other Universities, where the dining halls are poor. I've been to OSU, and most of the campus meal plan stuff is comprised of fast food style and it's expensive. The few "cafeteria" style things usually only offer one or two entrees, and it's not all you can eat.
ND's dining hall, on the other hand, is phenomenal. All you can eat for every meal, and a huge variety of food. Lots of proteins, salad bar, vegetables, etc. As long as the players know what they should be eating, I have to imagine it would be possible to do it at the dining hall.
As to Swarbrick pushing the ice arena through, it definitely has me pumped. I think I'm still waiting for certain people to say he did a good job, and isn't completely inept.
Thanks for the insight.
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The caveat is that it requires a lot of self discipline.
by ReginaldVelJohnson , Friday, February 13, 2009, 13:02 (6256 days ago) @ tex29
It's easy to eat well, but it's also easy to have a make your own pizza, burger, and fries for every dinner.