UNCW is not going to pursue football. Why? Let me count the ways

1. Start up costs - prohibitive
2. Location - Ocean to the east, SC border to the south with CCU right on the border, literally deserted woods to the west, and the only decent sized city near UNCW is Jacksonville, and Jacksonville is filled with folks whose allegiance is to teams outside the state of NC. ECU has a solid fan base in Jacksonville and eastern NC that we'd have an impossible task of challenging. We're also a 2 hour trip to Raleigh and 4 hours to Charlotte. Which means the city of Wilmington would have to provide the bulk of fans and Wilmington isn't a "big" city, nor is there a big surrounding metropolitan.
3. Title IX - Which men's sports are we going to chop and which women's sports would we add to meet the requirements?
4. Travel budget for football
5. Student fees? we're already pretty high in the state without football. How high are we willing to raise them to have a team?
6. Stadium? Sure we can use Legion for awhile, ,but it's pretty far from campus and therefore a problem fo students to attend? Where would we put a football stadium unless our permanent solution is Legion stadium?
7. Declining attendance and concussions. Like it or not, football is dying a slow death. Lawsuits and a general move away from the sport of the younger generation are trending in the wrong direction.

Of course there are some positives, and it would be fun. But the negatives far outweigh the positives for a school that has never had a program and would have to start from scratch