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RE: CMU Drops Under D1 FBS Mandated Sport Sponsorship Levels
(05-20-2020 11:17 PM)AllTideUp Wrote: (05-20-2020 03:21 PM)quo vadis Wrote: (05-20-2020 02:56 PM)AllTideUp Wrote: It's a tough situation, but given the economic situation right now, I think the waiver should apply to everyone.
I have no issue with CMU doing this. Are they knowingly breaking the rules? Yes. Are the rules reasonable under the current economic climate resulting from a mixture of global politics and government mandated shutdowns? No.
If it was simply a matter of CMU making poor financial decisions that led them to this point then I would see it differently.
I would say it was a matter of CMU making poor financial decisions - mostly along the lines of continuing to run a football program that loses many millions each year. IIRC, they just spent $32 million on some football complex thing for a program that their own fans will not support.
Poor decisions in the long term? I don't disagree, but the current economic climate was unpredictable.
With regard to the point about CMU being a bad FBS program, I completely agree, but what's our threshold?
I think the threshold should be something like a *hard* average of 20,000 fans a game at football, independently audited, with no room for tricks like Akron buying their own tickets, giveaways, etc. There have to be actual sales of tickets at market price, and you have to maintain that. If you fall below for more than two years running, out of FBS.
As for the waivers, I say "no". The cuts can be made in other ways, say a % across the board, that do not involve closing sports.
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