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Big enough of a deal that it matters on the recruiting side. Opens up some more recruiting in Texas and the Chicago area. Media deal is going to be subsidized by the exit fee pot just to get it to be where it previously was, so that isn't sustainable. There isn't going to be a whole lot of options that are going to bring at least $3.5MM in value to the media contract, so any addition makes the pie even smaller. Seems reasonable that they aren't going to be hesitant to expand unless needed and if they do, it would be for someone that isn't going to add a huge cost burden on flying sports teams halfway across the country.

Based on the interest she had when she announced she was playing basketball for a year, I'm going to disagree on this comment. Even if it takes a while to dust off some basketball skills, she's been starring at a top P4 level program. Can't teach that athleticism.

B1G has gotten what they wanted out of a Rutgers. They aren't going anywhere even if they continue to be a doormat.

The solution is to build a practice facility. I thought the previous set up was fine. The current set up is fine as well, though others feel differently and I see their point, though again, think it is fine. However someone decided they needed more seating (fair for some games and other events). I specifically asked someone within the athletic department why they did what they did and was told they wanted more seating while not hindering any practice space. I don't know what the cost was, what the budget was, who wrote the check or what other options were explored. Only that there were two primary objectives and they were both met. My invite for facility planning meetings must have gotten lost and I'm not a Seating Management Expert, so I don't know what the other viable options were. Do you have insight to that you can share? Would UMKC's solution work at the Betty? I'm open to actual conversation on it beyond constantly hearing that the seating is too far away.

It did, but they wanted to increase the amount of baseline seating. I didn't have a solution. Also didn't know that there was an option that one person could remotely move significant amount of seating without damaging the floor. And I'm still not sure if that was a viable option for what they did. The easiest option would have been to do nothing.

Intriguing. Looks like the height is probably similar but maybe a couple less rows? Wonder what the cost of that would have been but that's the kind of solution I was curious about vs complaining about the same thing over and over

Besides what they did, what would alternatives be? Not sure how much larger they make for portable bleachers that are more work to drag across the floor and set up? Not disagreeing on the new setup being less than ideal but honestly curious what other realistic options there were.

They also have a separate practice facility and don't have to move bleachers to make extra space. It's been explained plenty of times but figure out how to get a practice facility done and they could do some good things on the ends. The current set-up was the only way to add more seating on the baseline and still be able to use the entire space.

Doesn't open until first week in February.

Assuming that falls under the REA/Betty not directly the athletic department. Though they would see the offset on increased tickets if that does actually hold true. Do think that concession for MBB/WBB/VB should be less than what is charged at the REA though and be a little more family friendly.

Ben Newman took the fall for that.

Maybe 1 stays and 1 transfers?

Specifically states that who had reached out to him since entering the portal.

Did Miller recently tweet it?

Eye test says it was absolutely a huge difference.