Matt Vautour @GazetteUMass
There is a motion that will be presented by the fac senate today to call on admin to consider reversing decision to move football to FBS
Hustle Belt @HustleBelt
The UMass faculty wants to discuss a proposal to move football back to FCS. To be a fly on the wall of that meeting.
http://www.masslive.com/umassfootball/in...mitte.html
AMHERST — If you thought the debate on the University of Massachusetts campus about the upgrade of the football program to the Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly known as Division I-A) was over once the team took the field, think again.
While the majority of the discussion among fans is driven by the consequences of moving home games to Gillette Stadium, it’s the financial commitment of the university that has some members of the Faculty Senate’s Ad Hoc Committee on FBS Football raising concerns.
The committee, co-chaired by Max Page of the department of art, architecture and history and Nelson Lacey of the Isenberg School of Management, will present an interim report at Tuesday afternoon’s regularly scheduled meeting of the Faculty Senate.
“What we’ve tried to do is simply look as objectively as we can at the costs, present them, and then let people debate what they think the meaning of that is,” Page said. “You could look at this report that Nelson and I wrote at the committee and say, ‘Great, that’s the kind of investment we need.’ Others can say, ‘Whoa, this is way too much money.’”