You still think ANYBODY cares about facilities? You’re living in 1999. Players get paid actual money, coaches get tens of millions. A start if the art stadium that isn’t even filled with home fans is a tertiary factor. A decent practice facility is just table stakes. These guys aren’t here to play school, go get some damn ATHLETES.
He meant luring a coach with facilities, not kids. The stadium being ready in 2 years will be helpful for a new coach and it’s got to be a $800 million symbol that NU will invest in keeping the program competitive in the B1G.
So the adult who is an expert in the industry is going to be star struck by the facilities when the 17 year olds aren’t?
Go watch pro sports exclusively if you don’t want to watch student-athletes. This shit is so tiring. Let’s maintain the college experience and have some standards.
The standards are “you can graduate.” Our standards are way above that. I’m past this dinosaur shit.
And he will for the foreseeable future.
LOL dude, you’re a clown. We have a WAY better recent history than Vandy. Kudos to them for this season but give me a break.
Because he sucks. I don’t get the cult like following about him. 2019-2022 were horrid (minus 2020).
I just said that the $800MM stadium is a symbol of support and investment, not that a coach will think it looks cool.
Have you seen the clip of him hugging Sullivan after the game? Beaming with pride. Reminded me of when I spoke with Barnett in 2000 at a CU Boosters luncheon the Friday after NU beat Wisconsin in Madison in 2OT. I barely had introduced myself as a NU alum and his eyes widened and he said, “Did you SEE that game on Saturday?!” and went on about how all his recruits had played.
Get real!!!!!!!! Money trumps everything else in America. It is a huge source of revenue for the big universities. The money also usually brings in a lot of income to the local economies, so those people get involved as well. Seriously now, the top recruits don't give a shit about academic standards as they know what they are there for and that is to win football games and hopefully learn the trade to be ready for the next level. The players at all the top Division 1A schools rarely go to class, they have tutors. The schools let standards slide to keep players eligible or to sign recruits. This practice has been going on before I was born (1970). Hell for the 1980 Rose Bowl, the professors gave all of the USC players As on their finals, as the were playing OSU in the Rose Bowl for the natty( I was there). You want to keep high academic standards, become a fellow fan of a team in the Pioneer League in the FCS division. No athletic scholarships, true student athletes. And guess what, it is competitive and the play is just a good. I attended Univ of Dayton, which is in the Pioneer League for grad school. The football was just as entertaining as in the B1G or MAC. If you want to be competitive in the B1G you better get with the program, with the portal, NIL, and the fact that the other universities ignore academic standards when big money is involved. Doing the same thing and going forward in the B1G is akin to going into a boxing match with one arm tied behind your back. NU had Fitz and the new practice facility and recruiting didn't really get any better did it? Times have changed my friend, and I am not all that enthused about it, but it is reality. The NU football program will never challenge for a B1G title or even make a bowl game with the new expanded, more competitive environment if it doesn't bend the rules so to say.
In an NIL era do we? The world isn’t the same as it was 5 years ago. A totally different football universe.
NIL is the symbol of investment coaches ask about. It’s not 1999 and it’s not even 2019.
Things change, and rapidly as well. The fact that we had to replace Fitz with a FCS coach is a bit telling about how coveted the HC position is if Braun doesn't pan out. I hope the NU administration is willing to pay big bucks to the next HC if Braun is dumped.
Relax. We will. I have it on good authority that if Braun struggles next year he’s out and we will have big $ to spend on a HC.
Will we have some money to spend on players and an attendance process that allows transfers and recruits to be admitted in a timely fashion? Without some of that any coach will continue to be behind on talent from the jump every year. We won’t rearrange coaching deck chairs out of this, not consistently.
I hope you are right bud. Too much has been invested into the program for it to fail at this point. Our next HC needs to be in the mold of Barnett or my uncle. Guys that could turn programs around and keep it clean for the most part. The main reason I like NU is that they kept their high standards, but it seems the game might force them to lower them. I hope that isn't going to happen. The only real draw to get some really good recruits is to get a HC with a great rep that the kids would want to play for him since he knows how to win. Our current HC and OC are out to lunch. I highly doubt that things will get better under this regime. It will be interesting to see how many recruits bail after the season if we end up with 7-9 losses.
I think it’s less about the right way and more about our trustees not knowing anything about building a successful modern football program.
Obviously I’d love Pat Ryan to get real about NIL. I’m not in his weight class. If Pat Ryan had a fourth headquarters he visited three times a year and in his office there he had a fish tank with three goldfish and if those three goldfish were fed daily by an outside maid service and if that outside maid service sent an invoice to yet another office to be paid by a junior accountant… now w’re maybe starting to get down to all of our level vs Pat Ryan.
Not directing at you, but this NIL argument lasts about one more year, if CCC is correct in his estimate that the schools will assume direct NIL distributions. NU is a big boy. $20M to distribute. Most to football. Our quality of recruit should go way up. We don’t need Pat Ryan to field an exciting and very competitive team. A winning team.
