(06-04-2021 03:27 PM)dansplaining Wrote:  

(06-04-2021 03:07 PM)cidbearit Wrote:  

(06-04-2021 02:09 PM)holybovine Wrote:  

(05-28-2021 07:01 AM)emu steve Wrote:  

(05-28-2021 06:34 AM)dansplaining Wrote:  i actually edited in another line after i posted:

EMU - a school that isnt in the best financial shape in the world - had an operating budget of 288 million for the 2019-2020 fiscal year. a 3 million bump would be less than 1 percent of the total budget. And honestly if I was the governor of Michigan and i wanted an easy win - id have the state budget give all 5 Div 1 schools the money to pay the players right out of the state budget. make recruiting even easier.

Man, you come on campus near academic buildings and they would throw spit balls (okay, pop corn ala Russell Westbrook) at you.

EMU has been cutting and cutting and cutting for years and you want to spend more for athletics????

Reducing staff, hiring more adjunct, etc.

I think the ONE point you and I agree: IF I were the MI gov. I would use some Covid money and find a way to add 1M per FT student at MI public universities.

Schools would get ONE TIME 15, 20, 25, or even 50M depending on enrollment.

Need to put universities back on better financial footing.

Not one penny more should be spent on football. If it dies, it dies. In its existence, it has contributed virtually nothing to the university.

Thousands of students have benefitted from the value of an EMU education because they came to Eastern to play football. These are lives that otherwise likely would not have been touched so if not for EMU football. Many of them have gone on to be loyal alumni, donors, and supporters of EMU.

Don't engage - he's trolling but he isn't good at it.

A good troll is still funny.