You're not necessarily wrong, in fact, I'm probably inclined to agree with you. It simply looks bad when we have no information regarding fundraising (possibly a bad sign), and we're begging the same guy we begged before Nanne. It looks and seems like nothing has changed or improved.
Perhaps it is up to you to "beg harder..."
If this is going to happen, it is going to take some time. They won't go "grass roots..." (asking for the $$$ 25, 50, 100, 250, 500, 1000, 5000 and 10000 donations until they have their lead donors and at least 85% to 95% of the money raised.
It also depends on just how committed the "top of the food chain" in the administration is. Are there any academic needs pressing?
It's up to the current coaches that are drawing pretty damn nice wages to get out there, work their tails off and get MORE Big Ten Conference wins to help their own causes regardless of some multi...multi...multi million dollar demands that some fans have. No matter what, the new taj-ma-norwood digs are not going to buy championships. They won't hurt. But, they are not the "one..." mystical ingredient missing.
If Sanford gives big, he gives big. If he doesn't, he doesn't.
Find a way to beat iowa, Michigan and for God's sake, beat the stinking badger in football this year. Win the border games and the trophy games. That will do more to jump start the football program...and wouldn't hurt the hoops program at all either to beat those three teams!
T. Denny could help a bit...but...he is ONLY T. Denny. Win MORE Conference Football and Basketball Games. That is the answer. That will raise more money than all the "begging" in the world. Start competing at least equally with our border battle teams. That has been missing too often during the past ten years and longer. And, for God's sake: keep the Men's Hoops program from shooting the entire athletic department in the foot with scandals. In the past 3 or 4 decades, that has been a killer... for good will for the U of M athletic department.
