"Taj Mahal" of college football now open.

Posted: 08.10.2009 at 6:44 PM

ANN ARBOR, MI (AP) --       ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) - Michigan assistant athletic director
Scott Draper says the school's new indoor football facility is the
tallest of its kind in the country.
      Draper provided a tour Monday of the 104,000-plus square foot
building that is as high as 85 feet high from artificial turf to
the nearest obstruction as the Wolverines went through their first
practice on adjacent fields outdoors.
      Draper and school officials including the late ex-Michigan coach
Bo Schembechler looked over a number of college and professional
training sites before breaking ground on the $26 million project in
2007.
      Al Glick Field House includes a renovated locker room that
equipment manager Jon Falk says is "the Taj Mahal of college
football."