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I just don't think this is the strategy (raising tons of $$$).
If I heard TStan correctly, the goal is to refresh the facilities (new Edge, etc), wait for legacy costs to discontinue (stop paying fired coaches) and reduce long-term debt. That would give them more discretionary money to spend that they don't have today. With the size of our fanbase, I just don't see a path to significantly increase football related spending without a MASSIVE change in how we raise money.
I don't see any way around it. We can debate HOW to raise funds, but the need to update facilities, raise coaching salary levels to attract the top tier of coaches, sund more and better recruiting help, etc., is not going away. If nothing else, the AI 2020 campaign shows just how far behind we fell. CFB is a business, as you often say, and if you don't keep investing in your company, you will end up out of business.
Now, you and I can both agree that we will likely never raise the same levels of money as the factories, so therefore we will need to be much wiser in how we spend said money, but that does not negate the need to raise money to help put our program back into a competitive balance with other ACC schools.