USA Today: With The Star, Cowboys raise NFL bar on team training facilities

[speedkilz88]

FRISCO, Texas — While contemplating the eventual need for a new team headquarters and practice facility, Dallas Cowboys executives wondered how they could possibly match the standard they set with sparkling state-of-the-art AT&T Stadium.

The Star will ultimately cover 91 acres, include shopping, dining, athletic and hotel options and cost the Cowboys $1.5 billion. Jones harbors hopes of one day bringing the NFL draft and perhaps the scouting combine here.

The Cowboys have partnered with the City of Frisco and the Frisco Independent School District to create what is expected to be the only training facility an NFL team shares with a public high school athletic program. It includes a 12,000-seat indoor stadium.

Charlotte Jones Anderson, Jones’ daughter and a team executive vice president, says the 40,500-square-foot plaza area will be where Town Center meets Times Square. They want The Star to reflect tradition, embrace community and incorporate the latest in athletic training.

A new sports medicine facility, the Baylor Scott & White Sports Therapy & Research at The Star, will feature cutting-edge technology when it opens sometime next year.

 

[Seven]

Yawn................

 

[DCBoysfan]

I love the new facility, I can't wait to see it in person.

 

[LocimusPrime]

Nice! Love that he pours money back into the team in facilities and stadiums.

 

[Section446]

I'd rather we put a great product on the field....

 

[YosemiteSam]

 

[Hardline]

How will this translate to wins on the feild?

 

[Section446]

How will this translate to wins on the feild?

Won't, it will just further distract, and people will eat it up.

 

[cowboyblue22]

just lots more bling that don't mean a lot as far a football is concerned.

 

[Bill Wooten]

Dude sitting next to her has quite the look on his face. Like he's saying, "Keep yapping, I'm gonna hit that tonight!" Really hope it isn't her brother.

 

[speedkilz88]

Dude sitting next to her has quite the look on his face. Like he's saying, "Keep yapping, I'm gonna hit that tonight!" Really hope it isn't her brother.

That's Jerry Jr.

 

[jobberone]

Oh for goodness sakes! They have a cap. The money spent on anything else is irrelevant to the cap.

Some of these posts are beyond ridiculous.

 

[AsthmaField]

Dude sitting next to her has quite the look on his face. Like he's saying, "Keep yapping, I'm gonna hit that tonight!" Really hope it isn't her brother.

Bro... that's her brother.

I'm thinking that you might be reading more into the look on his face than there really was. But I'm just guessing.

To me, it looks like he's thinking: "God, you never shut up. Why does Dad give you and Stephen all of the good positions?"

 

[LocimusPrime]

Since there is a salary cap, the next best way to help the team is to provide them with state of the art training facilities.

 

[Idgit]

I'd rather we put a great product on the field....

How will this translate to wins on the feild?

Won't, it will just further distract, and people will eat it up.

Why even make posts like this? It'll translate to wins as much as any training facility translates to wins. It's not a thread about the football product. It's a thread about the training facility. Some of you guys are so uptight you've lost the ability to separate topics almost completely.

 

[Idgit]

Since there is a salary cap, the next best way to help the team is to provide them with state of the art training facilities.

To attract those FA who want to play in the big show?

 

[jobberone]

To attract those FA who want to play in the big show?

It couldn't hurt......my best yiddish

 

[Section446]

Why even make posts like this? It'll translate to wins as much as any training facility translates to wins. It's not a thread about the football product. It's a thread about the training facility. Some of you guys are so uptight you've lost the ability to separate topics almost completely.

I guess I'm just over promoting the glitz and glamor, when the team has been so dreadful over the past couple of decades.

 

[Longboysfan]

How will this translate to wins on the feild?

It's more money in the bank for them.

 

[speedkilz88]

Bro... that's her brother.

I'm thinking that you might be reading more into the look on his face than there really was. But I'm just guessing.

To me, it looks like he's thinking: "God, you never shut up. Why does Dad give you and Stephen all of the good positions?"

I was thinking it was the Jones Blue Label look.