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[FUBeAR]

I think the administration thinks the value we get out of basketball is much greater than football in terms of brand exposure. But admin is reluctant to move FB down due to cultural factors and such... but we don't fund it in the way theat Mercer and others do.

You can’t move football down without moving all sports down.

Correct, under current NCAA rules. So, under current NCAA rules, as FUBeAR sees it, these are the Athletics cost-reducing options for FU…

1) Stay as is & manage FU funded athletics budgets down, to whatever level deemed necessary, sport by sport (this budget management piece is also implied, as deemed necessary, in all other options below, except #12).

2) Move Football to the PFL (D1 FCS Conference), eliminating Football scholarships for Football Players.

3) Drop as many sports, besides Football and Men’s Hoops, as deemed necessary, as low as the NCAA minimum number allowed for D1, while maintaining Title IX compliance.

4) Do Options 2 AND 3.

5) Move all sports to D2, D3, or NAIA. (D3 would probably be the only option, within this option, that would make much sense for FU, IFBO).

6) Do Option 3 AND 5, with Option 3 adjusted to consider the minimum number of sports required at the ‘new’ level

7) Drop Football.

8) Drop Men’s Basketball (might require leaving the SoCon…dunno))

9) Do Options 3, 5, AND 7, with Option 3 modified to include doing Option 7.

10) Do Options 3, 5, AND 8, with Option 3 modified to include doing Option 8.

11) Do Options 3, 5, 7, AND 8, with Option 3 modified to include doing Options 7 and 8.

12) Eliminate FU intercollegiate athletics entirely


FUBeAR doesn’t like, but doesn’t hate only Option 1, if deemed necessary … but, while absolutely hating, could still live with the wildly unpopular, among Football peeps (and others), Options 2, 3, or 4. And, FUBeAR could even live with the wildly unpopular among Football AND Basketball peeps (and others), Option 5 (if D3 only, not with D2 or NAIA), or FUBeAR could even live with Options 6, 8, or 10.

Choose Options 7, 9, 11, or 12… and FUBeAR is “out.”

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