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https://www.sbnation.com/college-fo...2/tulsa-football-2018-preview-schedule-rosterDrop football altogether and concentrate on Bastketball or drop football down to FCS level... Or buildup the basketball program to become the Kansas of the AAC with a perineal losing football team that no one expects much from! TU can’t afford both!
This... We have been worse than we are now, and all it took was a new coach to get us going again, dropping football is a stupid ideaPlease, this is a head coaching problem, not a should Tulsa drop football issue.
TV negotiations have already begun and the people who run the numbers know that TU cannot afford football but it really really really can’t afford to drop it and achieve the student recruitment and retention goals they would like to have, particularly amongst the super smart local kids being offered big money and opportunities to go to OU and elsewhere. Combine that with losing the revenue to pay for 85 women’s scholarships (at least) and TU football will continue to wimp and weeze under the tutelage of Coach Gandalf.As much as some would like to see football go away (or drop to D2 or D3), it wouldn’t make any sense at this point. Tv renegotiations are about to begin and almost everyone involved with the situation thinks all the schools in the conference will see a pretty major bump in media revenue once it’s all said and done. Everything I’ve read/seen indicates somewhere in the ballpark of $8-12 million per year per school. Even at the low end, this would be a 300% revenue increase and up to a 500% increase.
So... we’ve been keeping our head above water on a shoestring budget. The increase in revenue could mean some big changes for how things work in the athletic department. I’m excited to see what that means for us and our conference.
TV negotiations have already begun and the people who run the numbers know that TU cannot afford football but it really really really can’t afford to drop it and achieve the student recruitment and retention goals they would like to have, particularly amongst the super smart local kids being offered big money and opportunities to go to OU and elsewhere. Combine that with losing the revenue to pay for 85 women’s scholarships (at least) and TU football will continue to wimp and weeze under the tutelage of Coach Gandalf.
Who is responsible for this alleged problem? I’m tired of this trotted out as an excuse when it isn’t one.TV negotiations have already begun and the people who run the numbers know that TU cannot afford football but it really really really can’t afford to drop it and achieve the student recruitment and retention goals they would like to have, particularly amongst the super smart local kids being offered big money and opportunities to go to OU and elsewhere. Combine that with losing the revenue to pay for 85 women’s scholarships (at least) and TU football will continue to wimp and weeze under the tutelage of Coach Gandalf.
The University itself is at a crossroads, it's not just the football program.
UAB had the same thought until they realized the CUSA would drop them and they'd have to join the Sunbelt or SoCon or something. It's really quite crazy how competitive they've been after a self-imposed death penalty. They may win the conference this year.
It wasn’t UABs decision.... the Alabama board of regents cut their funding to pay for programs in Tuscaloosa.
There was a little more to the UAB issue than just a competitiveness/funding issue. Bear Bryant's son is (or at least was) the chairman of the board of regents for the UA system. Insiders say that Bryant called for dropping football at UAB because having to fund that program was diverting funds away from the UA-Tuscaloosa program.UAB had the same thought until they realized the CUSA would drop them and they'd have to join the Sunbelt or SoCon or something. It's really quite crazy how competitive they've been after a self-imposed death penalty. They may win the conference this year.
There was a little more to the UAB issue than just a competitiveness/funding issue. Bear Bryant's son is (or at least was) the chairman of the board of regents for the UA system. Insiders say that Bryant called for dropping football at UAB because having to fund that program was diverting funds away from the UA-Tuscaloosa program.
After a reversal and some pledges from some former UAB players, UAB is 7-1 this season and ranked in the top 25.