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RE: NCAA looking to cut FB scholarships
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Terry
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RE: NCAA looking to cut FB scholarships
(01-14-2012 06:11 PM)MidnightBlueGold Wrote: I see the people who say they don't care about the MAC, they only care about Toledo, kinda like the people who are from the Toledo area but don't give a f#$% about UT. You're here in Toledo (or in the MAC), so why not root for Toledo (or the MAC)? It will only help out the overall cause. Saying you're from Toledo, yet you don't care about UT, is like saying you're a UT fan and don't care how the MAC does overall. It's like you're from Toledo and don't care about UT because you would rather go to 0$U/UM/ND.
I'm a University Of Toledo Rocket Fan, PERIOD!!!!!!!! I could care less about the I-A pretending schools in the MAC Conference. I wear Midnght Blue & Gold everywhere and have earned two (2) degrees from The University of Toledo. What do I have in common with the rest of the members of the MAC conference......NOTHING!!!!!
Toledo is NOT your typical MAC school because it actually has a fan base and draws people to their games, and can host AQ schools on a regular basis. (unlike the also rans in the field)
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RE: NCAA looking to cut FB scholarships
(01-16-2012 03:10 PM)Terry Wrote: (01-14-2012 06:11 PM)MidnightBlueGold Wrote: I see the people who say they don't care about the MAC, they only care about Toledo, kinda like the people who are from the Toledo area but don't give a f#$% about UT. You're here in Toledo (or in the MAC), so why not root for Toledo (or the MAC)? It will only help out the overall cause. Saying you're from Toledo, yet you don't care about UT, is like saying you're a UT fan and don't care how the MAC does overall. It's like you're from Toledo and don't care about UT because you would rather go to 0$U/UM/ND.
I'm a University Of Toledo Rocket Fan, PERIOD!!!!!!!! I could care less about the I-A pretending schools in the MAC Conference. I wear Midnght Blue & Gold everywhere and have earned two (2) degrees from The University of Toledo. What do I have in common with the rest of the members of the MAC conference......NOTHING!!!!!
Toledo is NOT your typical MAC school because it actually has a fan base and draws people to their games, and can host AQ schools on a regular basis. (unlike the also rans in the field)
"Toledo is NOT your typical MAC school because it actually has a fan base and draws people to their games......"
I'm going to have to disagree with that statement. Our following on the road is no different than any other MAC school. I witness this personally when our Rockets played at Ball State on Friday late in Nov. and the temp. was over 50 degrees. Only a few hundred fans from Toledo were in attendance.
And then we play in Washington DC, a 7 seven hour drive from Toledo, in the leagues' biggest bowl of the season, and UT can't even sell 2,000 tickets?
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RE: NCAA looking to cut FB scholarships
Yes, football scholarships absolutely should be cut. Due to Title IX and the large number of football scholarships, men's sports (other than football) have been decimated. Do people realize that almost all high schools and DIII colleges offer more men's teams than UT and most other DI programs? That's a shame.
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01-16-2012 06:00 PM |
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RE: NCAA looking to cut FB scholarships
(01-16-2012 06:00 PM)Dwight Wrote: Yes, football scholarships absolutely should be cut. Due to Title IX and the large number of football scholarships, men's sports (other than football) have been decimated. Do people realize that almost all high schools and DIII colleges offer more men's teams than UT and most other DI programs? That's a shame.
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RE: NCAA looking to cut FB scholarships
(01-16-2012 04:54 PM)letsgoblue Wrote: I'm going to have to disagree with that statement. Our following on the road is no different than any other MAC school. I witness this personally when our Rockets played at Ball State on Friday late in Nov. and the temp. was over 50 degrees. Only a few hundred fans from Toledo were in attendance.
And then we play in Washington DC, a 7 seven hour drive from Toledo, in the leagues' biggest bowl of the season, and UT can't even sell 2,000 tickets?
travelling fan base should not be your basis for comparison
but if you want to use it as the basis, the attendance for most bowl games stinks and schools from AQ conferences have pathetic travelling fan bases too
I think UT travels pretty well. Especially when there is excitement around the team. Unfortunately we haven't had too much of that. The OSU game was awfully exciting though. And then we blew it and my whole season got deflated.
I'm glad you could make it to Muncie this season.
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Terry
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