(04-18-2016 08:05 AM)emussuperfan Wrote: Brian Gumble is doing a story of athletics funding Tuesday night at 10 to 11 pm on HBO and EMU will be the main player. It doesn't sound good. He was on campus the ladt 2 weekshttp://www.hbo.com/real-sports-with-bryant-gumbel/episodes/0/229-episode/index.html
Emdypo already posted this in the Breaking News (WBB) thread.
"Outstanding student-loan debt in the United States currently stands at more than $1 trillion. Meanwhile, a financial arms race is underway, as the pursuit of winning athletic programs continues to drive up college costs. However, the majority of schools caught up in this competition are losing money, with just about two dozen athletic programs turning a profit on sports last year. This growing expense is sinking many students financially and, some claim, weakening the education they receive, as REAL SPORTS learns from professors at New Jersey state school Rutgers University."
As Matthew McConaughey eloquently explained in The Wolf of Wall Street........
......Fugayzi, fughazi, it's a whazi, it's a whoozie, it's fairy dust!
They're trying to somehow blame sports for skyrocketing tuition when the real culprit is the Fed backed easy money loans, which they describe in their first sentence. Deflect, distract, fughazi......Rosenberg and Wickersham types are going to buy into this crap hook, line and sinker.
'Shut the program down, it's so unfair to these poor students and professors. Let's get Bernie in there so it's all 'free' and 'fair'.'
The attendance is what it is. Win more games and attendance will increase marginally. It's a different era, a different type of student, a different type of fan, different interests and priorities, technology, etc, etc, etc. Even the better teams in the MAC have attendance issues. If we all had the $$$, the MAC, and EMU in particular, would be better off bulldozing the stadium and rebuilding it half it's current size, without the track. Dreaming I know.
I digress, let's just start by trying to win 6 games.