I would imagine the yellow lot is the easiest and cheapest option....
IDK if Rutgers will ever become THAT successful. Rutgers Athletics is surviving on old legacy donor (a few who develop huge sums of money (Browns, Towers, Garuttis, Rodkins). Not many new donors. Not so sure Maryland is swimming in new donor money with their recent "success." Time will tell if winning 8-9 games per year will germinate and sustain a bunch of new donors. To get to the next level, IMO, sustained success like Michigan, Ohio State, or even Penn State is needed. Not trying to be a Debbie downer or a doubting Thomas, but not sure the calculus is there for a new slew of donors.
This post is fine -- having a football fieldhouse would indeed "improve our chances to get that next level recruit." (It doesn't guarantee that we'll get him, but recruits do care about facilities.) The thread's title -- that a field house is "the last piece of the puzzle" -- is untrue. As our coaches and staff say, we need to have a lot more NIL money available. Some of our fellow posters think that better staff and coaches are needed. It's a question of priorities: does it help the program more to get a football fieldhouse or to have more NIL money or to have better coaches? As desirable as a fieldhouse is, I'm not at all sure that it the top priority.The Football Fieldhouse is needed to improve our chances to get that next level recruit, who can help take us to the promised land. The Quincy Porter type recruit, from Bergen Catholic, who is going to Ohio State, and didn’t give Rutgers a second look. We land the Quincy Porter type recruit, and we will be throwing on third and 7, to Quincy Porter.
Schiano was able to recruit this caliber of recruit at Ohio State and Miami. He is unable to recruit this type of kid to Rutgers because our value proposition isn’t strong enough.
The Basketball practice facility is the best facility money can buy, and this year, we landed two of the best three incoming basketball players. In time, Football will see similar recruiting results, once the Football Fieldhouse is built.
Below is the link to donate to support the building of the fieldhouse. We need to raise $50M to get a shovel in the ground.
Indoor Football Practice Facility | Support Rutgers University Foundation
<p>The indoor practice facility will take current and future Rutgers Football student-athletes to an unprecedented level of competitiveness. The facility will feature a height clearance of 96 feet and will be fully equipped with technology, temperature control, video boards, and more to op…give.rutgersfoundation.org
Very well- stated. Almost every rutgersal post is prone to hyperbole or irrational exuberance. We need more fans like rutgersal. It's also OK to debate the hyperbolic nature of his posts in a friendly manner. What's not needed is catty attacks on donors experience donor fatigue wondering where they should donate their money: (1) NIL, (2) facilities or (3) general fund, especially when Rutgers finally seems to be rolling in B1G money. Conjures up the Creedence lyric:
Or Bob Dylan's line, which I found so appropriate when the Pac-12 was destroyed with the result that West Coast athletes will often have to travel two or three time zones East for games: "money doesn't talk, it swears."
Maybe you are unaware, but we paid significant amounts of NIL, which is how we retained most of our players. We will never raise as much as coaches want, due to cultural reasons: many fans simply won’t support NIL.
I always see the Scarlet Lot half empty. Maybe many of you can switch? There also seems to be new parking lots being created. Possible tailgating lots?
More Rush
To get to the next level, we need a field house, which will help us better recruit that next level recruit. This is a 5 star program when you look at our results in transforming 3 star kids into 5 star performers, like Kyle Monangai.
When our classes have a good representation of 4 and 5 star recruits, we also will pump out 1st and 2nd round picks effortlessly, and also be in the CFP and NYD bowl games consistently .
Thank you for admitting that your prior post was inaccurate.
No, it’s not inaccurate because you don’t own the definition of what constitutes a 5 star program. Yours is an opinion, not fact.
Many, many people can easily define what 5* program is. Many SEC, B1G some ACC programs qualify. Rutgers is not even close to one. Perhaps we will in the future, but the notion that we are is laughably absurd. Go get drunk and sleep it off.
I think @rutgersal was saying that we're a 5* program in that (according to him) we are good at turning 3* players into 5* players as with Kyle Monangai. I don't think he intended to say that we're a 5* program in all the respects you mention. That would be, as you say, an absurd claim.
Talk about presenting an opinion as fact. 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
Nowhere did I suggest my post was fact. It’s all opinion. You suggested your opinion was fact when you suggested my opinion was wrong, which is absurd.
"“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
As far as I know, I used the term 5* program first on this board. Haven’t seen it used before here, or anywhere else.
Your statement is mainly ASPIRATIONAL.
Fieldhouse Al of La Mancha … if you are desperate to define us as a 5 star program in a realistic sense, here’s that way: almost every single one of us Rutgers fans absolutely rejects the asinine and ridiculous views of the most clueless poster on these boards and in the country: you. That doesn’t happen everywhere; often elsewhere buffoon posters are embraced and celebrated by their brethren fans. So in that comparison we are far keener fans, yes 5 star compared to them.
So you invented a word and its meaning? Maybe you should apply for a patent so no one else can define the word differently. Call @Knight Shift; he's the expert on patents.
Expert? Thank you. Unlike al, I'm not prone to hyperbole. That does not make al bad and me good. To me, it's important to stay humble and hungry. I repeat this often to young attorneys: "I'm practicing patent law with the hope that some day I may be good at it." 😁 Expert? I'll be dead before that happens.
That's exactly the attitude to have in almost all walks of life.
