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[QUOTE="Shrmdougluvr, post: 1069720, member: 396"]
I'll probably be the only one to say it, but these statutes are an incredible waste of money.  They do nothing to advance the program, which is the sole purpose for the IPF.

Brown, Davis and Little were all remarkable players, but the false idol worship (figuratively speaking, i get that no one is equating these men to God) needs to stop.  Their number is retired.  Ernie Davis already has a statute and a field named after him.  Jim Brown is in the college and pro hall of fames, and is universally considered a top 3 player of all time, and a top 5 athlete (he'd be even more widely revered if he didnt have a penchant for smacking around women).  Little is also a dual hall of famer, and has a pretty sweet patronage job to boot.

Use the money to buy x-boxs.  Get better/more training equipment.  Tint every window orange.  Put cararra marble floors in the locker rooms with radiant heating.  Stick a flat screen in every locker.  Hell, plant citrus trees in the atrium and offer fresh juice.  Set up a video conferencing center.  Buy an oxygen chamber.  Do anything that will make a recruit say "wow," or "#dead" or whatever kids say these days.  "Syracuse is where i want to play."

It's fine to wink at the past so the kids have an understanding that SU was once big time, and will be that way again.  But creating a monument park is pretentious.  Spend the money to develop the players, or to draw some five star kid who could become the next Jim Brown, John Mackey, Jim Ringo, John Mackey, Larry Csonka, Floyd Little, Ernie Davis, Tim Green, Art Monk, Marvin Harrison, Dwight Freeney or Donovan McNabb.  That's what the program really needs.
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