I am beginning to think that establishing a serious alternative to BB cosmology must 1st somehow find away past a catch 22.

The EU model has been dismissed on the grounds that it is more of a set of ideas than a propper theory. But you are extremely unlikely to be granted the right to study EU under any scientific establishment that has the requisite facilities to turn these ideas into something more substantial. And until these ideas are turned into something more substantial, it is going to be hard to argue the case that study time and research money be spent on an alternative to the BB (particularly when, according to cosmologystatement.org, 'funding comes from only a few sources, and supporters of BB dominate all the peer-review committees that control the funds').

Is this not a case of no access to requisite facilities until ideas are substantiated/ no substantiation of ideas until access to requisite facilities are granted?

A catch 22 in other words.