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Asking for a friend: Is having a great new facility really going to make CDM a better recruiter?

I am all for having top notch facilities, but I hope you have all mentally prepared yourselves for recruiting pretty much being the same after the new complex is completed as it is now. Hate to be the bearer of bad news......
 

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Asking for a friend: Is having a great new facility really going to make CDM a better recruiter?

I am all for having top notch facilities, but I hope you have all mentally prepared yourselves for recruiting pretty much being the same after the new complex is completed as it is now. Hate to be the bearer of bad news......

But but but...the lazy river barbershop and recording studio are tailor made for the jumpstarting of his relentless effort
 
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My kids want to live with their mom because she smashed her boss and now they are almost done with a 10k square foot house on the water. They don't want to live with me anymore because they have jet skis, an arcade and movie theatre. They are 7 and 10 and now Im in a court battle because she wants to try and flex her muscle.

Point is yes, kids give a crap about nice things around them. I live in a 3400 square foot house in a great neighborhood where all their friends are but it's not enough. They would rather have nice things and live at chuck e cheese and never hear the word no! Kids are kids and they don't change until they become adults and can see through the BS.


So sorry to hear this. I know exactly what you mean. We had a couple of foster kids that were doing really great with us for the 7 months we had them. Grades had drastically improved and they were extremely happy. Once DCF decided they needed to be adopted, bio-mom started manipulating anything she could to move them with somebody else, since we wouldn't let her see them when she was high, and wouldn't let her call to make them feel guilty if they didn't want to talk to her.

Anyway, mom's new strategy was to convince them to be adopted by their paternal grandmother. The younger of the two didn't want to do it because she lived in a ****hole. But the mom convinced the older one and partially got the younger one to go along with it because she said she convinced them they would have almost no rules (which is true, and its the reason dad has been to prison so much).

Of course, we didn't try to convince or pressure them one way or another because we thought it was wrong. Older one told DCF she would prefer to live with grandmother and that was it. That was two and a half years ago now and we have only been able to speak with them once since.

That was really, really tough on us, I can't imagine what it would be like if they had been our own. My point is, these situations are fu**Ed. You will always be dad and the older they get the more they will start to see the truth about it all.
 

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Is Fooley still the GOAT?

Did he get that Conference Commish job yet? I heard everyone acknowledged him as the greatest and we're just chomping at the bit to hire him as the Commish.

I too am surprised that Sankey is commissioner when Fooley was available

Who wouldn’t be impressed by the guy that has hired 5 football coaches in less than 20 years?

Not to mention 4 women’s basketball coaches and Mike White
 

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Asking for a friend: Is having a great new facility really going to make CDM a better recruiter?
Well, maybe a little. Probably not.

But at least we are less of a dumpster fire for the next coach and hopefully we will be more attractive.

Assuming the AD isn't dumpster diving again.
 
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Maybe Fooley knew all along half the country would turn into bleeding kvnts about the flu and we'd lose at least one year of football revenue. One of the benefits of being a tight wad is your not over leveraged when the world stops.
Yeah, it seems to have really helped in 08 and now.
 

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The results:

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The funny part is this includes a couple of Meyer classes and a decent class that Muschump somehow landed.
 

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I mean, Bammer is one thing. I knew we'd be behind them but not 800 million behind them. Let's look elsewhere. Surely the comparisons get better.

Kentucky:

2014 120mil stadium and football offices renovation

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2019 45 mil football training facility

Locker room upgrade wasn't just paint, new carpet squares and led bulbs.

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I mean, Bammer is one thing. I knew we'd be behind them but not 800 million behind them. Let's look elsewhere. Surely the comparisons get better.

Kentucky:

2014 120mil stadium and football offices renovation

Cnddsd.0.0.jpg


2019 45 mil football training facility

Locker room upgrade wasn't just paint, new carpet squares and led bulbs.

Cn4q0IPXYAAZfjt
Ceiling tiles?
 

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Asking for a friend: Is having a great new facility really going to make CDM a better recruiter?

The problem is the slower you do this-- here add a few dollars and see if things change next year. Didn't work? Try hiring two recruiting assistants, one is a HS basketball coach. Didn't work? ok hire some 70 year old dude who shtts himself-- the more it hurts.

We are stuck trying to convince kids that we werent always a laughingstock program. We were elite back when they were 8 years old..... 6 years old.... 2 years old.

The AD's office still isnt acting like there is an emergency of any sort. Just ho hum slap some paint on it and maybe we'll get around to something else later.
 
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Ceiling tiles?
Don't worry. I was told our $50mm all in one (but not really) was going to be THE BEST FACILITY IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL.

It makes sense because it will house THE BEST COACH IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL. /Jboss81
 

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Lol... oddly Bammer can build their stuff in 10 months.

It takes us 7 months just to start bulldozing.

This will be their SECOND facility (or upgrade), while we haven't even STARTED our first!

Yeah, Foley's the great AD ever...but he ain't gettin into no damn arms races!!
 

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This will be their SECOND facility (or upgrade), while we haven't even STARTED our first!
:lmao2: The second upgrade since we ANNOUNCED in 2015. They had one in 06 and 09 too. :lmao2:

Dont worry. I was assured once ours arrives, if it ever does, it will be THE PREMIER facilty in the country.

If not, blame covid.

Yeah, Foley's the great AD ever...but he ain't gettin into no damn arms races!!
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My kids want to live with their mom because she smashed her boss and now they are almost done with a 10k square foot house on the water. They don't want to live with me anymore because they have jet skis, an arcade and movie theatre. They are 7 and 10 and now Im in a court battle because she wants to try and flex her muscle.

Point is yes, kids give a crap about nice things around them. I live in a 3400 square foot house in a great neighborhood where all their friends are but it's not enough. They would rather have nice things and live at chuck e cheese and never hear the word no! Kids are kids and they don't change until they become adults and can see through the BS.

Tell sofla where this house is, then tell him Wentz is out for the season, he will burn it down....
 

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