The facilities will be there in enough time, then the question will become whether RU is going to pay it's basketball coach more than it's football coach....the goalposts will be moved from facilities, to assistant coaches salaries, to Head Coaching salary, to recruiting budget, to a host of other items that RU lags behind the curve on.
I can assure everyone here that if you don't retain and pay your coaches that perform, that trumps facilities 100%....if given a choice between retaining this current staff and facilities, I'll take the staff each and every time.
There are a number of programs around the country that have facilities and every so often those schools make a run and suddenly that school starts telling us what investment they've made into their program. I think what will happen is the facility will start on time and the staff will get their compensation accounted for, if we make another uptick in recruiting and on the court next year.
I think there is more than enough donations and revenue at RU these days.....we don't pay the Prudential Center money to rent a building for our home games like Seton Hall and we have a very good home court advantage at the RAC which is better than MSG, when RU is playing good basketball.
All RU and Hobbs needs to do is redirect just a little more money away from football and support RU basketball at a higher level and the rest takes care of itself.....the days of RU crying broke, isn't going to fly anymore. We have a revenue stream coming that if it wasn't there, great, we can argue all year long.....but it's a very real thing, this B1G revenue....things are happening, but it's not an overnight process.
