I want to put this in perspective. One57, the most expensive building in NYC, started construction in 2009 and was fully opened by 2014. It is still considered the nicest and is the most expensive building in NYC. Building technologies haven’t changed in 10 years. Maybe styles have changed slightly, but an interior decorator can fix that. If the dorm needs to be rebuilt, then there were major errors made in construction in the first place.
As far as posters saying UK facilities should be the very best, of course, and if Mitch could snap his fingers and throw up a luxury building with a bowling alley and all the amenities Cal wants (why didn’t he ask for these 10 years ago?) I’m sure he would. But it would take a large fundraising effort, and likely distract from other more pressing issues in the athletic department. You have a limited supply of fundraising dollars and you’d be going back to the same people who financed the- presumably failed- construction in 2012.