(01-13-2021 09:29 AM)MU ATO Wrote:  

There is a lot of information and speculation that it's happening, but I still can't bring myself to believe it until I see it. I had to look it up, but I'm on record here as far back as 2017 insisting GCU will never start football, with the strongest evidence for my resolve in the following post. Maybe something has changed since?

(06-22-2019 03:08 AM)gleadley Wrote:  A feasibility study was completed back in the D2 days & it has been a consistent "hard pass" on football from University leadership ever since. Football would require too much capital to launch, too much time to reach financial break-even, and necessitate blowing up an otherwise stable and healthy athletic department. Very little has changed since this 2016 article, where Pres. Mueller expressed where GCU stands on starting football:

"We are not in the place that we want everything else to sacrifice to have that one thing (i.e. football),” Mueller said. “There are a lot of schools that have done really well without football like the Big East schools like Marquette, Seton Hall, Villanova. (Also) Gonzaga, St. Mary’s. They are all schools that have built really good athletic programs without football.”

Coupled with the long-term outlook for the game as a whole, which isn't very good given declining youth and high school participation rates, a new football start-up just doesn't make a lot of sense. GCU is more than content with its current 21 Division I varsity teams and thriving club sports program.