Thanks for the reasonable response and conversation. I'm not coming over here to pick or troll (usually :smiley:), just calling it like I see it. So, when I see people give money the credit for PSU success, it just needs to be pointed out that the money wasn't the only thing, and might not be the biggest thing.
Every program in every sport that has money says the same thing, it's not just the money. Well try it without the money and see how that works out for ya. You don't, why? Because money allows you to do what you want. Hire the best of the best. If you should make a mistake hiring what you thought was the best you can buy them out and hire the next best thing. Screw up again, you buy out the AD and move onto the next best thing.
Wrestling is getting cut throat with the clubs, you can outbid others for the best training partners with money. . Money also allows you to build shinny new practice facilities or in your case completely renovate existing facilities. Currently we reside in the basement of a building built in 1939 that had a leaking roof. Delaney saw it 1st hand. Now you can say wrestlers don't need shinny new things to compete. Show me a kid today who doesn't like shinny new things over grungy old things? If they did you'd be practicing in the basement of the maintenance building. But your not, why? Those are huge advantages when you have money. When you don't there's no magic pill to cure your ills. It's the same for every sport, wrestling's no different.