Buccaneers indoor practice facility details

Something that has been sorely needed in Tampa Bay for quite a while, the Buccaneers will receive an indoor facility this year. New details – and artist renderings – have become available.

There’s no sugar coating it – Tampa is hot. When these 90 players are out there busting their butts to try to make the Buccaneers’ final 53-man roster, they’re doing so in the blazing Florida heat. Well, as many of you are aware, that will soon be a thing of the past.

Although the new indoor facility at One Buc Place won’t be ready in time for Training Camp, the indoor facility will be opened and ready to use during the 2017 season. That obviously doesn’t help very much in the month of August, but it’s better than nothing.

Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay Times released some details as well as some artist renderings courtesy of the Buccaneers on Monday,

Some of the highlights of the indoor facility include the latest in FieldTurf technology, 3,500 seats for fans in attendance, 4K televisions throughout the facility, an intricate camera system allowing coaches to better review practice film, and more.

This will certainly provide some much needed reprieve for the Bucs as they get through the season without the weather either draining and dehydrating them or practices being cancelled due to weather.

HEad coach Dirk Koetter told Stroud, “In my coaching career, I go from Arizona State to Jacksonville, to Atlanta, to Tampa. And one thing that’s become very apparent, I’ve heard other coaches who coach in the south and the Southeast talk about it, is over the course of a season, the heat does take a toll on your players.”

The facility will come in at a whopping $20 million dollars but in the long run it will be well worth it – and is long overdue.

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At least now the Bucs won’t have to make the trek to Tropicana Field in order to practice away from the heat.