(08-21-2017 05:47 PM)Stugray2 Wrote:  

(08-20-2017 03:38 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  I take it you would like to see UMASS drop football?
On another note, I wonder why CBS-SN or even ESPN didn't pick up this game? There's only a few games this weekend and it features two state schools (Hawaii vs Massachusetts) I think people would tune in.

Well, my position actually is that I'd like to see institutional transfers severely limited across all the NCAA and that includes D-I, with schools getting budgets under control. Athletics has seen inflation far beyond inflation in the "arms race" which is increasingly fueled with tax dollars. That needs to stop.

IMO, if everyone had to get their budgets under control, you'd see budgets slashed $5-20M for half of FBS and a good swath of FCS. I'm not sure how many would actually have to drop to do that. If everyone decided that paying a coach $1M to run a team that produces one NFL player every 4 or 5 years was excessive and paid them more in line with NBA D-League coaches (same for staff) then you'd see the costs drop dramatically. Then UMass might not have to drop Football if coaching costs dropped $3M, and other budgets moves dropped another $3-4M, while football supporters stopped speaking in loud $0 internet posts and instead dug in their wallets and threw $2000 a year at the program they want (just 500 of them doing that would raise $1M and overnight nearly triple Football donations). But I don't see that happening.

EMU should probably drop to D-II, and drop football altogether (JMU is ready to replace them). UMass probably should drop as well. The gate is so pathetic it will take 50 years to recoup the capital outlay ... and that assume 0% interest and 100% of gate to that down payment. Unless UMass supporters start proving they are more than internet posters then the smart thing to do is shut it down and redirect the tax payer money to useful things like undergraduate research.