"By the time I got here, (museum displays) had been static," [Steve Hatchell] said. "The only thing that would ever come up was 'Here's a way to get money from someone else to make this work.'

"The conversation was never around, 'How do we make it better?' It was always, 'How do we pay the expenses to keep the lights on?'"

"It could (work), if you had started it out that way," Hatchell said. "If you would have said to the (college football) community around the country, 'We're going to build this, it's yours, we need your support to make it work.'"