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FOOTBALLFEVER:
--- Quote from: 1a4YSU on November 28, 2014, 04:18:52 PM ---For sure, YSU should have been in the FBS/Ia sometime ago...................but now is the time to hire a coach and AD to take YSU to the level they belong.........Charlotte University plays a weaker FCS schedule then
YSU. In fact Charlotte U was 5-6 this year in the FCS. But, Charlotte is going to the FBS next year. Charlotte has only been in the FCS two years and now is going to FBS. Another thing, no more big money games for YSU if they stay in the FCS. In the FBS they can play a couple of big money games each year.
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Couldn't agree more !! If we were in the Mac-East right now know one could touch us. The East leader Bowling Green who I judge to be the best team in the M.A.C. just got hammered by Ball St. who got beat by Indiana st. earlier in the year. December is such a critical month in the recruiting process for Y.S.U. at the F.C.S.. level. Considering the current state of the program it should be a cause for concern. I know the university doesn't want to rush and get it right but they better hurry !!
CookieMonsterSig:
Sorry, I'm jumping in late here to the discussion but YSU to FCS is an absolutely ridiculous idea. When you consider the campus climate it makes the idea even more absurd. As someone who spends considerable time on campus (i.e. I work there), the climate regarding athletics isn't positive. The faculty union cited athletics and their increased spending as a main reason for their rejection of the latest contract proposal. They even had button mades highlighting their views.
As a student I loved the idea of YSU moving up to FBS. However, once you take the fandom glasses off - you see there is no base of support on campus for the idea or a strong enough passion from an older and dwindling fan base. Increasing the athletic department budget in such a dramatic fashion would cause even greater unrest on campus and further the divide between the board of trustees, athletics, and the rest of the YSU campus community.
Observer:
--- Quote from: CookieMonsterSig on November 29, 2014, 05:05:28 PM ---Sorry, I'm jumping in late here to the discussion but YSU to FCS is an absolutely ridiculous idea. When you consider the campus climate it makes the idea even more absurd. As someone who spends considerable time on campus (i.e. I work there), the climate regarding athletics isn't positive. The faculty union cited athletics and their increased spending as a main reason for their rejection of the latest contract proposal. They even had button mades highlighting their views.
As a student I loved the idea of YSU moving up to FBS. However, once you take the fandomn glasses off - you see their is no base of support on campus for the idea or a strong enough passion from an older and dwindling fan base. Increasing the athletic department budget in such a dramatic fashion would cause even greater unrest on campus and further the divide between the board of trustees, athletics, and the rest of the YSU campus community.
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Some good ole fashioned common sense!! how refreshing!
stuperman17:
Moving to FBS will never happen, and should never happen. The money needed to make that jump is far too much and the community just fits FCS far better.
Why play football with no chance to win a national championship anyway?... I don't get it.
Penguin Nation:
Athletics distracts, and even subtracts, from the mission of a University...which should be higher education. Opportunities made available via athletic scholarships could still be made available through non-athletic means.
However, since in the universe we live in, college sports are the norm....sports can be a great way to obtain widespread positive publicity for a school. During the 90s, while a grad student in DC, people would come up to me when I'd be wearing a YSU shirt and tell me about how they watched them on TV.
I'd either go all in or all out. Either strive for excellence or put those resources toward academics. The Slocum-ization of MBB, and the embrace of mediocrity, reflects poorly on the University....as an example.
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