(10-08-2019 05:44 PM)Sitting bull Wrote:  

(10-08-2019 02:38 PM)LeadBolt Wrote:  I'd love for us to figure out how to maintain FB spending and bump BB 40%.

Play two FBS games every year. One ACC old rival and one other among smarties (Stanford, Northwestern) or Big 10 (Rutgers, Maryland, Indiana, Illinois, etc).

Put the 2nd payday to BB.

I can't see any football coach who wants to win enough games to make the FCS playoffs on a regular basis agreeing to do this. He would be sacrificing his own chances to win just for the benefit of another sport. Bad enough that it happens once a year already. Of course, he might not have any say in the matter.......

(10-08-2019 05:46 PM)Tribal Wrote:  '19-'20 season ticket purchases (thus far) and donations are way down for MBB. We're heading in the wrong direction.

I can see Huge cutting a few sports, namely, Swimming, Gymnastics, Golf and one other...maybe Tennis or XC.

Unfortunately, I also can see Huge trying to do it. That's it -- take some sports where W&M actually wins consistently, where hundreds of student-athletes get to learn and experience the joys of intercollegiate competition, and sacrifice them on the altar of MBB (where only 15 student-athletes compete). Plus, once Huge was gone, it would take a lot longer to bring those sports back to the same level of prominence as they enjoy now. They might never make it back, plus the great coaches would have moved on to other schools.

BTW, I believe that all the Gymnastics scholarships are separately endowed and so the athletic department would not gain any funds from eliminating gymnastics because their budget is independently supported (or so I heard).

Eliminating any other sports, especially the successful ones, would just simply piss off too many people to make it worthwhile (although I still think Huge would try to do it if she could get away with it). Hopefully, Rowe is a little more attuned to her responsibility to exercise some control over Huge now, after the Shaver debacle. I remember the big stink in the '80s when wrestling and men's lacrosse got chopped and swimming almost did.