(03-04-2014 04:17 PM)Buccaneerlover Wrote:  

(03-03-2014 10:39 PM)Buc66 Wrote:  Gee, do I remember the debates on here over men's soccer, especially after being added a year or so after football was dropped. Boy, what an era of screwed up athletic priorities. Where are those folks who supported the Stanton-Mullins athletic model on here? Really, can ETSU afford to keep men's soccer? Should ETSU keep men's soccer? Why not let that one ease on outa here with the coach? Besides, after ten years of grossly wasted athletic expenditures, it's obviously time to fix athletic spending.

Yes, keep men's soccer/North Korean kickball. And this is coming from the person who has pissed and moaned about it head and shoulders more than anyone else. Fund it at the level normal schools at our level fund it (we spend more on soccer than Memphis does), allow one international trip a year for recruiting and the rest comes from instate/walkons. If the coaches want more, then they need to do what other soccer programs do and run a pantload of camps for little kids.
But definitely keep it, if nothing more soccer guys graduate 100% typically and it makes the department's APR look really nice.

I'm not sure where you get your data from, but Memphis spends over twice as much on soccer as ETSU does on operating expenses ($206k vs $96k) and about $235k more on total expenses ($777k vs $538k). As far as recruiting, you give each program a recruiting budget and then each program uses it as they see fit. You don't set restrictions on where you recruit. The previous coaching staff would fly out at odd times and from farther away airports overseas to minimize costs as well as stay with family and friends when they traveled to foreign countries. They were very good at maximizing their recruiting budget. Why would anyone discourage that???