Building a winner, one luxury bathroom at a time
Jim Harbaugh, Stanford head football coach and hygiene advocate, will handle his business beginning this year in a private luxury bathroom so nice it makes every other bathroom you’ve ever used seem like a Porta-Potty at an eating competition in mid-August. If there were such a thing as the Bathroom Olympics, this facility would, without question, host the event by 2012 at the latest. The toilets are actual Sears Director’s Cups! (We kid. We haven’t actually seen pictures of Harbaugh’s new potty palace, but with a price tag of up to $70,000, we’re betting it’s pretty nice.)
The bathroom was a gift from billionaire John Arrillaga and it’s raising a stink for the same reasons (read: the economy sucks) that some people took issue with the Cardinal’s “We Work” slogan for the coming season.
“It was something I’d asked for,” said Harbaugh, who previously walked 20 steps down the hall to use the layman’s restroom and down two flights of stairs to take a shower. “It cuts down on drag.”
The drag isn’t so much that Captain Comeback accepted the bathroom, but that Arrillaga spent the money to build it during a time when the Stanford athletic department was in the midst of budget cuts and layoffs. It’s obviously his hard-earned money and we’re not going to sit here and pontificate that it would have been better spent saving the fencing team, but really, purchasing golf carts for the entire football team would somehow seem less offensive.
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By Scott on Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 at 8:01 am.
Tags: Stanford Cardinal