Funding athletics.

[Cat Grad]

"No public college or university in the country has reported losing more money on a Division 1-AA football program in recent years than UMass. UMass officials said the annual shortfall of at least $2.6 million has been budgeted as the price of sustaining a competitive football program."
-- Boston Globe

East Tennessee eliminated a rather competitive team three years ago because they were running a deficit similar to ours, year in and year out. Either next year or 2008, we'll see them back.

Ya'll ever check the tuition at UMASS or the other A-10 schools? Wow.

I suppose the only reason I begin thinking about this stuff is that I just read today that the student government decided to raise the activity fee in Missoula by $10.00 a semester.

My thesis as far as athletics in Montana is this: We do more with less than any state in the country and you can look it up. Have a good, happy ski season and I can't wait for the official signing lists to come out.

[GOKATS]

"No public college or university in the country has reported losing more money on a Division 1-AA football program in recent years than UMass. UMass officials said the annual shortfall of at least $2.6 million has been budgeted as the price of sustaining a competitive football program."
-- Boston Globe

East Tennessee eliminated a rather competitive team three years ago because they were running a deficit similar to ours, year in and year out. Either next year or 2008, we'll see them back.

Ya'll ever check the tuition at UMASS or the other A-10 schools? Wow.

I suppose the only reason I begin thinking about this stuff is that I just read today that the student government decided to raise the activity fee in Missoula by $10.00 a semester.

My thesis as far as athletics in Montana is this: We do more with less than any state in the country and you can look it up. Have a good, happy ski season and I can't wait for the official signing lists to come out.

Ya'll have a good time down south............a really good time..............

Hopefully upon your return you will be able to speak Montanan!!

[Hell's Bells]

i wonder if anyone is figureing in the D1A games we play every year as a source of revinue

[Cat Grad]

i wonder if anyone is figureing in the D1A games we play every year as a source of revinue

Yeah, but look what that kind of beating does to a team year after year It's really not an even playing field from conference to conference and region to region.

[Hell's Bells]

i wonder if anyone is figureing in the D1A games we play every year as a source of revinue

Yeah, but look what that kind of beating does to a team year after year It's really not an even playing field from conference to conference and region to region.

is it worth it in other words?

the good

1) more money infused in msu athletics to help pay debt and hopefully bowl the stadium.(yeah i know a pipe dream but it still can come true)

2) experience should be helpful

the bad

1) a guarenteed loss and we all know how the ncaa looks at any division 1 loss

2) they are not called body bag games for nothing. we lost groves after colorado

3) they prove nothing with how tallented our team is

[theblackgecko]

As much as I smack talk MSU for high student athletic fees (wait, I paid those for three years, so I guess it's complain), the Montana schools raise a far greater portion of their athletic budgets than any other school in the Big Sky Conference, and most I-AA schools.