(02-21-2017 04:42 PM)Steve1981 Wrote:  Ah P23570 is the world so simple for you. Do you think that is all that has happen during those years.

Every sport has seen improvements, field hockey got a their own area/field/bleaches, baseball had some renovation, lacrosse got a new field, basketball got a 27 Million dollar practice facility, Football got a new Performance Center and a new Press and Skybox for around 37 Million, new field turf, the women rowing team got a brand new boat house with radiant heated cement floors. We fired coaches, football and staff for a million, women's BB and men's hockey for 1/2 million. There are a few other things including COA. But hope you get the picture. It's not so simple as looking at the numbers. Ignoring the other revenue sport and the above saying, hey it's all because you went FBS.

Were a flagship campus and started acting like one. We are improving everything, especially the campus and moving up the academic rankings. We are spending billions and billions. We are a leading research university and pumping more money back into the economy.

This has nothing to do with me personally so stop trying to steer the conversation that way.

And since 2012 was the year UMAss transitioned I think it's a fair time to look for differences. What timeframe would you use to look at the cost difference in FCS vs FBS for UMAss?

The reason you don't like looking at the actual finances is becasue it makes your comments about ticket sales and donations turn out to be not true.

Don't be mad. Easier to just admit that after looking at the finances it seems there wasn't' really much of a boost to ticket sales or donations, certainly not enough to offset the costs of operating a FBS program, which the taxpayers ended up footing the bill for.

That is the subject after all.