Jimbo Fisher: Florida State has to get 'caught up' in college football arms race

Florida State is one of the premier college football programs in the country, but FSU coach Jimbo Fisher thinks its falling behind in the facilities arms race.

"We’ve got to get caught up," Fisher said in his weekly call-in show on Wednesday night.

"We haven’t done anything for a long time here. We did when we first got here. We made a few little adjustments. Since then we really haven’t. We’ve got to get caught up in that area."

Since Fisher arrived in 2010 the locker room has been renovated, an indoor practice facility built, and a players-only dorm built.

But those projects were completed prior to the start of the 2014 season.

Fisher was asked about the facility that he thinks FSU needs the most, and his answer was instantaneous.

"We’ve got to get a new football operations building,” Fisher said.

"We don’t have enough room for offices for our coaches, for additional staff that you’re going to be able to add, for new coaches in all the different player development areas...

"Get more academic space for kids to study, tutoring, computers, there’s a ton of areas in the academic world that we’ve got to get caught up in as far as facilities and space."

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Clemson recently built its own $55 million football only facility. Alabama and Oregon recently renovated their locker rooms.

It's an arms race in college football, and recruits pay attention to the facilities that they are provided with at each school.

If FSU wants to continue to compete for the top recruits in the country, and for national championships, it has to keep up in the arms race.

“You get what you pay for," Fisher said.

"What you invest in and put priorities in is huge. It doesn’t mean everything, but at the same time it means a lot. With player development and recruiting, and everything that goes on, you can never stop… You have to stay up and you have to keep going."