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[QUOTE="OrangePA, post: 794494, member: 204"]
Again, I have lived it.
 
I can tell you that the expansion in facilities in the last two years is due to BTN money.
 
Does Indiana raise more money than SU?
 
I'm sure it does - it's large public school with a large Alumni base and a strong fund raising Foundation.
 
IU received $1 million from John Mellencamp ten years ago to build its IPF. And at about that time built a new weight room.
 
But IU continued to trail the rest of the Big Ten. And that has only changed recently due to the BTN.
 
And I think it's important to understand the difference between what IU did ten years ago and what IU did two years ago.
 
The new weight room ten years ago was nice. The IPF was also pretty nice.
 
But the enclosure of the stadium - the addition of fancy offices and study rooms and meeting rooms and the creation of a magnificent weight room facility was game changing. It was all the essence of what Marrone called the "wow" factor.
 
I had a tour of the new facilities with my fraternity brothers two summers ago and that was our collective reaction  - "Wow!!!!"
 
Now SU has done some nice cosmetic things over the last year with the football office, but it is structurally the same place. And though it's nice, it does not have the kind of "game changing" impact that adding a five story office building in the endzone of a football stadium has.
 
What IU has done and what SU has done simply cannot be compared - it's not even close.
 
And many here - you included - and I'm really shocked by that - still don't get it.
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