(08-21-2019 01:27 AM)ljmhurons Wrote: Take a look at the MAC bowl record. It’s atrocious. Easily the worst in fbs. The Sun Belt has dominated us. The Sun Belt.
Our great achievements as an athletic department have disproportionately been in the non revenue sports. But we have almost nothing left to point to as exceptional presently.
The idea that other schools cut sports so we should too is a loser mentality. They failed so we should too.
https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/con...bowls.html
I'll try to reply to your post, honestly and constructively.
When a school, governmental unit (e.g., city), company, etc. has to balance their budget there are only TWO ways:
1). Increase revenues,
2). Decrease expenditures
EMU has done all it knows how to increase revenues trying to increase enrollment, raising tuition, selling off assets (e.g. parking), etc.
EMU has been successful at raising revenue by selling off some assets. EMU has been generally successful raising some funds for athletics through donors.
As has been reported in quotes, EMU has been cutting pretty damn near across the board to cut expenditures.
EMU's biggest failure, IMHO, has been with endowment. A 500M endowment @ 10% investment income = 50M a year.
If 25M could be used to pay back bonds used for new construction, etc. it would help the bottom line.
Yet, last time I checked the endowment was under 100M.