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@Pudge Still avoiding the question.
Rutgers stadium could be 30,000 seats and they'd be in the B1G due to jerseys population. What don't you understand. If the Big never called, they'd be in a world of hurt financially.
You can't host build it and expect them to come because you watched field of dreams. That's insane.
I would love to have a 50k stadium. I really would. But with the financial peril we find ourselves soon to be facing, I find myself wanting to dump all resources into the staff then to seats that will be filled maybe once a year, if that.
How can you justify expanding a stadium that has seen attendance decrease EVEN WHEN we were winning with edsall?
It's not build it they will come, it's not win they will come - it's something other than that why people aren't showing up like they used to. Be it the economy or whatever, but I'm just not sure I want to throw a scarce resource ( money) at what I perceive to be a non issue.
If they want to do both ( retain coaches and expand) great - I just can't see one not affecting the other.
You are getting annoying. You imply that I am not answering your question. Basically ... you don't like my answer (and then you feel justified in a rude retort).
Financial peril? WE ARE IN FINANCIAL PERIL NOW.
We had the low cost/best structure of the Three Universities. They expanded ... and they did the things that needed to be done to look attractive for selection. We did not. Stadium is clearly one of the key - largely unwritten criteria - and we took the Edsall momentum & we flushed it. Hathaway did. And our respective Fanbase is not what we were a mere 3 years ago. The only way forward, IMHO, is to go hard at Fully building out the program. You assume that we are going to lose. Guess what ... friends ... Louisville & Rutgers took that bet and they WON. And I can make a case that we were better positioned ... and we can buff our Football again for (what I believe is) the next round.
Of course ... many will moan ... this is over. We will be stuck. I say that "Cartels" always leak (that is Economics 101). This will open up again and there will be more in the P5. This isn't like the NFL. There are more 30,000 State Universities growing. As much as the top elite want exclusivity, I say that gives lots of avenues for this to break. You see us as Temple. I see us as a Bigger Better Rutgers/Louisville/Arizona/NC State/Iowa/Arkansas ... a Program that can have a BRAND in New England & find its way to play at the highest level. We are not that far ... we aren't UMass. We can chin ourselves over the bar. And ... you are worried about 10,000 empty seats ... and that is probably $50m in cost. (Rutgers, by the way, spent more than $110m & Louisville more). We can use the existing Connecticut Public Authority and do the bonds easily in a low interest rate environment. I don't think that's a big deal. Insane? Dropping to a level that plays a regional MAC schedule ... or this AAC level should not be our zenith.