I liked Bienen (especially as he led to dramatic improvement across the varsity sports), but Schapiro/Phillips really put the focus on the facilities part of the equation through the master plan and the donors have stepped up to an unprecedented level over the last 10 years.I adore Morty, thank God he was chosen, but let's not forget -
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Basically to the point where everything's done (day to day facilities and basketball arena) except the football stadium and that likely has somewhere around $250 million committed already at least.
If you'd have asked me 15 years ago, I'd have thought we'd someday have competitive facilities with the lower end of the Power 5.
Instead, we're going to basically have best-in-class across the board when the football stadium is done in a couple years.
$800 million in facilities build for athletics is not something I'd have foreseen in 2007. It's a comprehensive change that says "we want to be the best at athletics as much as we want to have the best academics."
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