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RE: Idaho Asking State for Athletic Dept. Bailout
(02-15-2017 10:19 AM)jacksfan29 Wrote:  Maybe that is because athletics are not the most important part of a University's mission?

If Idaho intends to play FB they are heading in the right direction, if money is the issue they may want to think about D2. The other choice is to drop the sport. They do not belong in FBS and never did.

Of course I'm of the mind that NMSU and half the MAC and Sun Belt also don't belong in FBS but that's for a different thread.

I'm not making a value judgment here, other than to say that if you're going to try to do something you should try to do it well. My beef with Idaho athletics isn't that they fail, it's that they took on a huge project and then never even attempted to figure out how it might be successful or engage people to make it happen.

My main position is that scholarship FCS football is an obviously and blatantly stupid place for Idaho to go. If the school wants to deemphasize athletics that's a perfectly reasonable position to take, or now that the team has turned around on the field if they want to give FBS Indy a try for a while my wallet and I are still in, but don't continue to subsidize athletics at virtually the same rate to play at a level that nobody at Idaho will care about for at least 2 decades, plus undergo an ongoing humiliation to do it.
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