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[QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 5654202, member: 173"]
Don’t care.

1) Nebraska wrestling is top 10.  They don’t have 12 national championships in the last 15 years.  Massive difference with a gap that can’t be closed. It’s difficult to comprehend how big wrestling is at Penn State - Syracuse at its lacrosse peak was still nothing like it.

2) Pegula (basically) built a state-of-the-art hockey facility, and they made the Frozen Four last year.  Their facilities are unreal.

Basketball plays in a dump, and there’s no cache to being a hoops player on campus.  It would require a Final Four or at least Elite Eight to even get a passing glance from anyone in State College.

If Penn State built a new basketball arena so they weren’t obviously second class citizens on campus compared to wrestling and hockey - they’d have a chance to do what Nebraska is doing right now.  While NIL can close a gap fast - you need to have infrastructure to get in that game.  Penn State doesn’t have that.  Plus they have two winter sports that are bigger on campus than basketball, which is a situation no other college in the country has.   There is close to 0.0% chance anyone will succeed at basketball at Penn State.  Best case is doing what Shrewsberry did, sneak into the NCAA tourney and leverage that into a better job.  But it’s hard to pull that off.
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