Message Board Genius Proposal
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The only reason Rutgers hasn’t won a National Championship is money. Rutgers fans have never donated enough to win a National Championship.
We need Money to build a Fieldhouse and support NIL.
We need Money to build a Fieldhouse and support NIL.
It's a novel idea, but that wouldnt win a championship. Now if all five schools could chip in, buy a portable Fieldhouse to move with all the players, we'd have a chance every five years. Maybe we should solicit the company used for The Boardwalk. They took an entire setup to the bowl game. They should be able to transport the portable Fieldhouse.
The lack of a fieldhouse has become the default excuse. When this thing is finally built, I'm expecting a Saban Death Star level dynasty.
I responded to the post. If you have a better rationale, share it.you should just save time and post a blank response. WE ALL KNOW EXACTLY WAT YOU'RE GOING TO POST ANYWAY.
Not true.Money alone isn't going to defeat Ohio State,Michigan and Penn State to just name 3 elite football programs.
"fans" don't build field houses. A group of really big time (multimillion) donors and/or corporations do.
For example, Kevin Plank put up $25 million to help fund Maryland's FH.
I do. But I'm not going to repeat it ad nauseum like you. You must have auto reply set on your account.
I applaud the Pitt fan. Not feasible but definitely outside the box.
Rutgers raised $100M in 2019 for Big Ten build
And YOU have no clue what it is Mr. USC of the East.
Go see the basketball team we bought and the state of the art APC as exhibit R.
Baghdad Al, don't ignore the fact that $25M was state money and RU really need to raise around $500M given all the facility needs.
Rutgers would end up being 5th in the rotations and after the 4th season the NCAA would "get wind of what was going on" and shut it down.
Get with the program @-RUFAN4LIFE- . We have $50M in state money this go around, for the Fieldhouse, and only need to raise $75M, and will bond the rest. This is priority #1 because football has significant revenue potential.
Since RU won't have a President or AD in place until later this year that means you're at least two years from shovels in the ground right now. So raise that total cost by another $25M since the original price tag is several years old already. Plus it's convenient that you ignore the JMA renovation (or possible new arena), lacrosse stadium, baseball/softball facility among other things. The $100M from the state isn't close to enough for everything RU needs to get done.
You think Texas is short on funds? How many nattys have they won the last 15 years?
2 years? I’ll sign up for 2 years right now. But it’s probably going to take a lot longer to raise the funds. Any incremental costs will be financed by bonds. The Fieldhouse designs are done. All that’s needed is for construction costs to be raised.
Everything else isn’t as big a priority, because you’ll need more time to identify scope, which is going to take a while, especially around here. JMA will have to wait and deadlines renegotiated. The Fieldhouse project is ready to go.
Or RU would win a National Championship, the NCAA would immediately investigate, and would invoke the Death Penalty.
You know There is not going to be a field house anytime in the future so let it go. There are no plans right now for one and no money.
Repeating this everyday is annoying and driving people away from this site. It's not cool to Richie.
you should sit this one out, since you don’t know what you’re talking about.
The designs are complete. All that’s needed is the construction costs. Some are donating towards this endeavor. We need more participation.
The price of doing business in New Jersey will always keep Rutgers behind the 8 ball with so many Big Ten schools.
The interesting thing about this post is Pitt fans still think we’re the same as the other 3. Rutgers is in the Power 2, the others are not. Rutgers plays a big boy schedule, the others do not. Rutgers recruits for that big boy schedule, the others do not.
In the last 5 years ACC teams have become our whipping boy. You wonder what it would take for them to realize we play at a different level. They’ll never admit we've left them behind and they mock us for anything they can glom on to. We live in their ****** bulletin board minds and I love it.
In the last 5 years ACC teams have become our whipping boy. You wonder what it would take for them to realize we play at a different level. They’ll never admit we've left them behind and they mock us for anything they can glom on to. We live in their ****** bulletin board minds and I love it.
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It’s not the price of doing business. It’s desire. Costs are higher but so are salaries. If people wanted a Championship, they would support a Championship. People on this board will openly say they want to win but don’t want to support NIL. This is not a tenable stance if we want to win, consistently.
I'll be more polite here. Winning and buying a Championship are two different things. I think most Rutgers fans are happy to be competitive and winning more against our peer programs. Yes beating a top 10 team now and again would be great. BUT I'm not into "buying" a team or spending Godly amounts of money to stroke my ego.
and btw... we now have four 4 stars (out of 5 ) without that magic palace you claim we need to get them. so now instead of 2 vs. 6 for PSU (your example) it is now 4 vs. 6.
So 80% of ours are 4 stars and only 66% of theirs are haha (that part isn't serious)
I thought OP was going to propose marriage to his GF using the message board and that it was a genius idea.