While I personally would much rather my money go to facilities than players, it is entirely clear that money attracts recruits and coaches. If everything else is equal, maybe nice dining facilities and locker rooms tip the scale. But recruits are going where they stand to make the most money plain and simple.
Isn’t it all for naught if we still suck? I believe coaching matters more than anything else , by far. We should be spending more on coaching salaries, imo. Of course that means nothing if you have an idiot like Burman hiring those coaches. And he is an idiot surrounded by idiots that accept mediocrity
I agree. Moving forward, I think it's time to shift spending away from facilities and extra staff and into NIL. But I don't regret having nice facilities now. Some of our competition won't ever catch up.
So, quality facilities=suck? Also, does coaching salaries=winning? There's the black and white thinking I was talking about.
No, it indicates we are probably mis allocating resources. And yes, I believe higher coaching salaries and recruiting budgets are correlated with more winning.
Winning attracts recruits and coaches.
Being ahead of our future competition of the UTEP’s, SJSU’s and Nevada’s of the world…is being the world’s tallest midget really something worth boasting about?
The PAC, as dumb as it was to pay the exit fees for that, is miles better than than our new garbage conference. Lack of a winning culture is the direct reason those schools are no longer our conference peers.
No doubt we're misallocating $. But the correct answer isn't 0% on facilities and 100% on coaching salaries/player recruiting.
I disagree. It's way more complicated than that. It's some mixture of $, school, geography, the coaching staff, winning, and a bunch of other stuff like where the kid's girlfriend is.
