In response to DogPoundNorth and HuskieAlumnus03, in your opinions it's better to give the money toward the facilities project.
Clearly, in so many other folks' opinions, this is a separate, very worthy cause that people are willing to support, myself included.
HuskieAlumnus03 says we've got statues of four dogs, well I suggest the cost for Diesel's statue can be lessened by melting down HuskiePigdog for use on something that would look far better in the end zone.
For whatever it's worth, the rempvated Burger King on Lincoln Highway doesn't have particularly quick service, but for over a week their message board has said "We miss you Diesel," that was enough to get me to patronize them despite how slow they are. My Huskie cap is off to them and to everyone else on here who supports this idea. And DogPoundNorth, copy/pasted some of the first few responses, plus yours, and a couple that followed to a friend not connected to NIU -- his response was "Why's the DogPound guy raining on everyone's display of spirit?" This thread might be a good example of "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything."