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Kansas State has a really nice football fieldhouse

In 2019, the price tag for a fieldhouse was estimated to be $150 million. Schiano was supposed to take the lead in fundraising. The price tag is probably at least $200 million by now thanks to the inflation during and after Covid. And, if Schinao is fundraising, he has been *very* quiet about his efforts or his successes, if any. If he were being successful, the school would be advertising that because large donations help spur smaller donations. In addition, we don't have either a president or an AD, and we have no idea how they will feel about the project. So I think we ought to wait until the school renews its committment, and until Schiano is able to get some large donations, before regarding donations for a field house as important enough to guilt-trip posters about.

To put it less tactfully, I am tired of hearing from @rutgersal about this matter.
 
Indiana just landed Cals QB, who is a baller.
Michigan landed the #1 QB in this recruiting class. We’re landing lower division kids whom we hope will be able to play in the Big Ten. Hope it works out for us.
Indiana and Michigan are flinging money around like nobody's business to kids out of high school and who choose to flee their college commitments in search of the all mighty dollar. I'm not interested in bidding wars for high schoolers, college kids or even the pros for that matter. And these college kids are now pros with no oversight, structure, or restriction. It's getting sillier by the moment and it's destroying what collegiate, amateur sports was all about.
The Kstate Coaches learned from their first half experience and adapted, to take better advantage of their kids superior speed and talent. On the 65 yard run, their offensive line put our defenders on roller skates. The hole the back ran through was as wide as the Red Sea. That’s not coaching. That’s talent. They put a hat on hat and beat us up.
How did Rutgers coaches adapt after their first half experience? The balled up into a shell and stopped doing what worked for them. Second half, Rutgers defenders seemed to be hiding rather than being in position, swarming to the ball and taking proper angles. How many gigantic chunk plays happened where a Rutgers defender was not in five or ten yards of a receiver/ball carrier. That's piss poor execution, not lack of talent.
 
If Big10 schools are ‘flinging money around’ and that doesn’t sit well with you, do you think we belong in this conference ?

If we can’t or won’t keep up with the Joneses we shouldn’t be in their neighborhood.
 
Put the running back on our team and we win the game. Their offensive line dominated our defense, which is why they ran for well over 347 rushing yards while we rushed for 164 rushing yards. That’s not a negligible talent difference. Their line was much better than ours.

Furthermore, Didn’t we out scheme them over the course of scoring 41 points? Of course we did. The point differential was also negligible. But at the end of the day, they were simply the better team.
Their best RB opted out and they still ran for 347 yards. They ran for that many yards because they exploited RU's bad defensive fundamentals. As a previous poster mentioned, on many of those explosion plays, there wasn't a defender within 10 yards because they were completely out of position.
 
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Their best RB opted out and they still ran for 347 yards. They ran for that many yards because they exploited RU's bad defensive fundamentals. As a previous poster mentioned, on many of those explosion plays, there wasn't a defender within 10 yards because they were completely out of position.
Re: the last part applies to the basketball team as well.
 
It was evident to me that they were much faster than we were. Their superior Fieldhouse provided them with the edge to recruit better players. Their players executed, and we didn’t execute as well.

What does a field house get you that we don’t already have through Hale Center etc.? I honestly don’t know.
 
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