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Lack of Early Football Excitement
go guins:
--- Quote from: YSU1 on July 10, 2018, 10:10:36 PM ---our fan base is too small for the MAC. besides we can't beat teams in the sub-division.
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so is kent and akron. they have huge financial problems. the solution is NOT for us to move up, but for them to get real and move down.
Penguin Nick:
Besides the extra 20plus scholarships and paying coaches more salary, what other costs are associated with moving up to Division 1A (FBS)?
go guins:
--- Quote from: Penguin Nick on July 11, 2018, 09:31:29 AM ---Besides the extra 20plus scholarships and paying coaches more salary, what other costs are associated with moving up to Division 1A (FBS)?
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Big issue is football attendance. Akron has huge issues with this and is forced to buy thousands of tickets for every game. We are thousands below threshold also, so we would be doing the same drill as Akron. FBS makes -0- sense for YSU, Akron, Kent, probably Buffalo. (But does sound like the start of a great FCS conference with no trips to the Dakotas doesn't it?)
IAA Fan:
--- Quote from: Penguin Nick on July 11, 2018, 09:31:29 AM ---Besides the extra 20plus scholarships and paying coaches more salary, what other costs are associated with moving up to Division 1A (FBS)?
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Good question. The best answer that I can think of are additional requirements from the conference. The MAC sponsors Field Hockey, W Gymnastics, Men's Swimming and Men's Soccer ...which are sports that we do no have. AT first you can say "so whoct" and move anyway; but to properly compete for all conference trophy, you need to participate in all of these sports. They do not sanction bowling, so we may be forced to drop it ...mainly for scholarship reasons. There is also the loss of scholarship equivalents, which would hurt any FCS team moving up. There are also much more strict media requirements that we would only have been able to meet as of last year (TV lighting). There are much more in the way of marketing requirements, which can add up to quite a bit of our financial resources.
YSUGO:
I keep hearing for 10 years that the MAC needs to move down. Its not going to happen. Sometimes I think we need to drop down to D2.
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