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DirectorsAthletic • • Coaches i 1 9 L — right the wrong after it's been done,aside and people are swimming around, bang- from putting up a sign that says, 'Under ing into these mushrooms. New Management.'" The trouble is,anticipating change is o — ® What's the problem?Read these,and no simple task.Older basketball courts, r weep: notes Bill Canning, assistant vice presi- o • Lack of oversight. Sad but true — dent of recreation at Tulane University, poor oversight is the cause of many may appear to have electrical outlets in CarronKnow problems, particularly some of those the wrong areas of the floor, but these smaller, irksome ones. A possible sce were designed when the game was • _ nario is one in which the architectural slower and the athletes smaller—when There's A Carri drawing shows a floor drain, but the scorer's tables sat closer to the game Dealer N- • plumber neglects to put the line in — than they do now, in other words. and the contractor,for whatever reason, Indeed,Canning says he's never painted Carron Netcan '- all doesn't think of it either. "None would permanent three-point arcs on Tulane's your •• net --• like to admit it, but it happens on every basketball courts since he's been We • - the most complete project," says David Body, a principal expecting the distance to change. line of • • • custom with Cannon-Parkin in Los Angeles.Adds Putting down the lines with tape every they're described Al Oberlander, an architect with RDG year saves the eventual expense of •ur catalog and-they Bussard Dikis in Des Moines, Iowa, "In resanding the entire floor when the trey FREE_ available ur my mind those are never a client's fault." line changes, but Canning says he's • •ll • • •Poor up-front planning.Wiggins calls beginning to wonder whether he might _ • of qualified • • this "the greatest flaw I've ever seen," be too far-sighted after all. authorized dealer akin to building without a blueprint. Anticipating change is a lot easier representatives, "Any architect or consultant worth when the planning team includes a man- their salt will spend a considerable ager or programmer who's lived with For the name of the dealer amount of time with the owner defining various mistakes in other venues. How- -' ll ll Free the very finite details of the program," ever, the entire team is responsible for Nationwide '' Wiggins says. "In an aquatic facility, for visualizing the way the building is most example,you have to define what sort of likely to be used. programs you want in that pool before "Needs can change over time," Can- you begin to think about the size,shape, ning says. "A gymnasium built just for depth, and whether you'll add slides or basketball doesn't need to have the sprinklers or any of the other things that greatest acoustics in the world. But CARRON NET COMPANY, are becoming popular these days. Some after it's built,and somebody sees what • BOX 177 9 Two Rivers,WI 54241 of those leisure-pool components, once a wonderful space it is and decides to you get them in there you can't get them hold high school graduations there,and L QUALITY NETS SINCE 1934 out again—so what are you going to do all of a sudden you can't hear the if your program changes to lap swimming speaker — that's not the fault of the i 30 ATHLETIC BUSINESS August 1995