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Message: [QUOTE="Arizona Knight, post: 440345, member: 1115"] It wasn't so much "neglect" as it was incompetance. Rutgers did a MAJOR renovation of the stadium in 1994 going from a 27,000 seat stadium made up of rotted wooden bleachers (if you were there you know I'm not kidding) to semi-modern 42,000 seat stadium with metal seats. We subsequently built the Hale Center. A little more than a decade later and we poured another $100+ million into the stadium complex and that finally put us on par with most of our competiton. Without knowing the exact figures, I would guess that Rutgers has spent more money on its football infrastructure than any other team in the Big East since its inception. That said, Terry Shea set the program back a decade and we seemingly didn't have anywhere to go but up when he took over. He made GRob look like Vince Lombardi. [/QUOTE]