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[QUOTE="Fly Rodder, post: 2215106, member: 2133"]
I can't put a dollar amount on what would make a difference to specific recruits, but spending on facilities matters - otherwise KU and UK, and Zona & hundred other schools wouldn't be upgrading their facilities [B]and[/B] coaching staff at every chance.  Recruiting for the past few seasons has been the result of whole bunch of factors.  It remains to be seen if there have been any positive shifts this season.

Between SU's unique position in an regional economy, ballooning TV money(1), extraordinary low interest rates, a potentially massive federal reconstruction of local transportation, and (it matters) cheap oil, the time is ripe for significant renovations and improvements.  Failure to do so could permanently harm a program - especially one reliant on a septuagenarian head coach with a limited shelf-life.

(1) - Broadcast/[I]cable [/I]money from ESPN may not be the majority of the revenue stream by say 2020 even.  But total TV revenue is not drying up, it's slowly being redistributed to other platforms.  Netflix is spending $6billion a year on content.  A robust ACC digital network in association with other college platforms may likely generate huge revenues.  The WWE (fer crissakes - he's got a chair!#GoodOlJR) charges $10/mo to 1.5m subscribers = $180m a year in revenue just from subscribers.  If you figure that the ACC has about 350k students enrolled at any given period and 25% are sports fans, with a 20-year cohort that could be 1.7m likely subscribers to a sports package.
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