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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 495164, member: 780"]
You get it, AFO.
 
In the military, they don't much like "excuses" for not getting things done. I don't know if that is still true, but it used to be.
 
In the civilian world in business --- and I suspect Universities --- excuses are the coin of the realm. Everybody has them. Sometimes they are real. Sometimes they are not. Sometimes they are partially true.
 
Many times these excuses are part of the game that is played between the managers and those being managed.
 
"We can't make this plan because --- or we didn't make this year's plan --- because we need":
A. Lower prices
B. Better products (Better Candidates)
C. More people
D. Faster Delivery
E. And on and on and on.
 
Managers, in turn, go to their bosses and tell them the "barriers" the people actually dealing with customers report they are having. Then the whole organization then works to improve those things that they can ot that they actually believe are legitimate barriers.
 
Kevin Corrigan, the ND lacrosse coach, for years had excuses.
 
"If we just had full-funding (scholarships), we could compete". He got them. Not much change in ND's success level occurred.
"If we just had a dedicated lacrosse facility, then we could compete". He got them. Still no impact.
"If we were just in a Conference, then we would do better". He got in the Big East and eventually to the Final 4 but in a year SU crushed them on their new field during the regular season.
 
The problem with is that last year's NCAA champion was Loyola College. A tiny school with few of the resources ND has --- or Rutgers or Penn State or Ohio State or Georgetown or any of the "pretenders" all of whom have their lists of things they have to have to compete.
 
SU football may need better facilities. But if we get them there might be another excuse around the corner.
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