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[QUOTE="BoomStickO, post: 115747"]
It's difficult for me because I reside in South Carolina, and it's easy to be critical from afar.  However, I see SU's expenditures per athlete, and that it's a BCS D-1 program.  Despite heavy rhetoric that the school takes its football program serious, the schools actions or lack of action thereof demonstrates the opposite.  An investment in the players, fans and facilities in good faith, with the consolation of extra ACC TV revenue to curtail increased expenditures, could only help.

- The school does not have a modern locker room (although there's an effort to change that)

- The school does not have a modern football practice facility

Those two things do hurt when recruits compare and contrast schools (You don't believe they base their decision solely off how great a guy a coach is and tradition do you?).  Point is that facilities matter.

Just an idea:  I would think it great if the university attempted a grassroots combined transportation and tailgate package plan from the surrounding communities.  By allowing fans to obtain an affordable package with transportation and access to alcohol, I could see more people going just to get out of the house in the winter.  Cheap tickets alone doesn't seem to be working.

Perception:  The upgrades do appeal to the community in making work available and generating buzz among locals in the media.

Bottom line:  Action here is better than none.  Throw the program a fr'ck'n bone :cool:
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