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Message: [QUOTE="FDNY99, post: 1387557, member: 683"] Just go over to CSNBBS and you'll hear upstate NY fans, UL fans....it's the same old story. The B1G thing with RU is great for them...but that will wear off quick when they don't get the state $ they need to make their athletics master plan reality. The RAC sits 8,000 (which they leave just under 3000 seats empty there every night ...2014-2015 avg attendance was 5770) and is a flat out dump in DESPERATE need of renovation. Their women's coach spouts off about a stand alone practice facility any and every chance she gets. She actually made comments of jealousy about UCONN's new facility last yr when asked about it. The Hale Center isn't a stand alone football facility and they have no permanent indoor practice field. I get it that CR was about football and tv eyeballs...BUT RU better start figuring out how to make these upgrades work and get them done. They should be rolling in the donations to build facilities on that master plan and have the start dates for those projects backed...that hasn't happened. If it doesn't happen soon...RU will be a floundering AD where the $ they get form being in the B1G will be the money they operate their AD on. Good enough to founder along...not enough to make a move in ANY sport in the B1G. [/QUOTE]