HBO Real Sports - Rutgers sucks, and so does EMU
Did anyone else catch Real Sports the other night? They did a piece about the massive amounts of money Rutgers (and EMU) are wasting on athletics, football in particular.
It was pretty great. Rutgers has lost $312 million over the past decade and EMU $52 million over just the past two years.
Michigan wasn't mentioned but the piece did refer to a "couple dozen" programs that make money or at least break even.
Can't shut down the house that Charlie Batch built.
if UM didn't have a team for some reason, attendance at Eastern would still be the pits. Tens of thousands of UM alum traveling far and wide to get to the stadium aren't gonna start doing so for Eastern vs Bowling Green
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If you were a for-profit business you'd get out of the football market because its a huge loss. I dont get how you blame women's sports for football spending.
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as all of them are money-losers. Women's sports rarely generate enought to cover their expenses regardless of the school.
If football goes then all sports ought to go because EMU would still be losing money and taxing the students for something they do not care about.
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Just too hard to get people interested with AA and UM literally next door. So many commuters as undergrads as well. I went to Michigan games and visited friends at other colleges on weekends. Not to mention Detroit pro teams.
Too expensive and too many schools in DI.
EMU is one of many schools where students subsidize sports. Clearly, this has to be reviewed not just at EMU, but any school that is losing money and charging fees and higher tuition to support varsity sports.
State aid is a joke now for public universities, so money sucking varsity sports only compound the cost of education. One might even question supporting athletic scholarships at the DII level if the sports can't pay there or the AD can't support other required sports.
EMU competes well in other sports, and, I agree that Creighton is a good coach, but,
frankly, part of the football issue is a self fulfilling prophesy. What fans support losing programs? Not many, even schools with tremendous FB history like Michigan had big drop offs in support with a few bad years.
We would probably be surprised how many universities are in this boat.
Maybe if the EMU's stopped charging $20 a ticket for home games they'd actually gets some asses in the bleachers. $20!
is due largely to bloated administrations, excessive degree tracks, and the facilities race that a great many schools ae engaging in. There are a great many US schools that either don't have a football pogram or operate at a level where the costs are kept down.
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Actually, very few athletic departments reimburse the academic side of the house for the cost of tuition. Michigan's does but it's certainly NOT the norm to do so.
while rutgers may recover due to the cost sharing in a major conference, i find it indefensible that a commuter school that's struggling to survive is also blowing tens of millions on football...
oh and i also find it indefensible for EMU
probably dozens of D1 teams should be shutdown
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To FORCE colleges to make the diecisions that EMU must face regarding football. The money game the "Power 5" is playing should be stopped, and the thing blown up for anti-trust violations.
ALL college sports is a farce- a hypocrittical farce where EVERYONE pretends to play school just to make money and pay fat-ass middle aged white men millions of dollars to look the other way while the "student" athletes run amok on college campuses all over the country.
And all for message board posers to align themselves with a school to feed their starving egos and despearate need for friends and credibility.
Fans are the true hypocrites in all this. They think everyone is cheating but their school, overlook the bullshit that goes on at the school they pretend to have attended, and spend BILLIONS to watch this shit.
April 20th, 2016 at 10:06 PM ^
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April 21st, 2016 at 12:28 AM ^