Your first thought is what immediately came to mind

by Domer99, John Wesley Powell's Expedition Island, Thursday, March 26, 2026, 10:07 (6 days ago) @ Jeremy (WeIsND)

Like, how is this even a logical take? We've been a dogshit program for the last 2 years and your solution is....run this back?!?!? But spending even more to do so!?!?!? What!??!

Nothing about that makes sense.

Regarding your other takeaway, about ROI, that was discussed here last week and some great points were made:

https://bluegraysky.com/forum/index.php?mode=thread&id=581034#p581066

I don't know if it makes sense.

But I have another issue/question on this: how do we even know if this is true? Because Tom Noie says so?

I think we're caught in a little bit of a vortex where there is this projection of pinning past ills on every subsequent regime and it stays there into perpetuity.

- Rolfs was long overdue, the Pit sucked. But this is a nice facility:

https://fightingirish.com/rolfs-athletics-hall/

- Micah Shrewsberry allegedly makes $4+MM annually ( https://www.on3.com/college/notre-dame-fighting-irish/news/micah-shrewsberry-receive-7-... )

This ranks him close to the top 20 in college basketball: https://sportsdata.usatoday.com/ncaa/salaries/mens-basketball/coach

- ND's reported spending to the NCAA puts them in the top quartile of the ACC

https://ope.ed.gov/athletics/#/institution/details

The one area we don't know is NIL/roster spend. All we get is guys like Noie complaining about the capital spend but doesn't offer up anything tangible. But we know that Markus Burton turned down other NIL offers to return and we also know ND landed a top10 class last year. That doesn't happen without spending. But if $10MM is what it takes, is it worth it?

https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/the-10-million-club-college-basketbal...