(03-16-2018 03:30 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(03-16-2018 03:08 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(03-16-2018 02:53 PM)EmeryZach Wrote:  weaaaah weaaah weaaah said the professor. All these faculty members care about is themselves and their programs (which I understand), and they see athletics as an easy target. The most vocal of them grew up hating sports to begin with, so they are completely biased. The vocal ones usually didn't attend the university that they teach at and have no history of attending games or feeling any sort of connection to the athletic department. A lot of them have also had some bad interactions with athletes in their classes that have also swayed their view of things.

I've had discussions in person and via email with a number of anti-sports professors at UMass and they are all a bunch of whiny idiots who simply want more money for their programs and think if they whine about the athletic department budget then maybe the school will give them some extra money to be quiet.

Oh, and they also all refuse to even come to a tailgate or game and try to understand why athletics are so important to a university community.

Isn't UMass one of the worst cases of a bloated athletic budget?

Per the NCAA reporting, they are. They have a top 5 student subsidy in all of D1.

The problem is that it is expensive to be a FBS indy. And the A-10 doesn't give them any slack on their requirements to spend on non-football conference sports.

The problem that most of our programs have is that they don't really recognize that they should actually sell their programs to those who are funding it.

And unfortunately, a lot of UMass’ rivals for Olympic sports are in the A10, so they can’t give the conference the heave-ho right now.