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For him. LOL.

So tell me where I am wrong: We have 13 scholarships. A player gets 4 years. (Redshirts can change the number). So every 4 years we POTENTIALLY turn over 52 players. Now some stay and play 4 years, many do not. So if someone does the math, we may have lost and recruited, what, 25 players in the past 4 years? Again, I don't have the number but in the last few years we had a lot of turnover and we had guys who only played one or two years. So, my point is this: MOST recruits, at least to Akron, do not work out. In the sense they leave before the 4 years, they never get any minutes, they get "convinced" to leave. So missing out on any particular recruit is not a big deal, unless it happens to be LBJ, or maybe Zeke I guess. No one ever knows how a high school standout will do in D1, and we actually played a pretty high level of hoops last year. AND, when a sought after recruit commits, that might dislodge a transfer from that school! So I don't lament the loss of a potential recruit, we have a good coach who finds good players.

If you cut football, you're also cutting all the revenue that comes with football (cfp money, tv deal, buy game guarantees, ticket sales, advertisements, etc). Football probably is responsible for 70%, if not more, of the athletics non-subsidy revenue. Outside of Infocision, which we're stuck paying regardless of what we do, football is the closest thing we have to a revenue neutral sport. There is still plenty of fat to trim from the football program though. For one our coach shouldn't be making $500k. Assistant salaries are bloated too. At a $500k salary a coach should be packing Infocision. We haven't been getting that. The athletic student aid section is heavily inflated IMO. The school charges the athletic department the full cost of attendance, but the marginal cost of rooming and boarding ~400 extra scholarship athletes is less than ~30k per student. Besides schools are in the business of educating. What bothers me is the money that gets blown on coaches, administration, and over the top facility upgrades.

52 would assume everyone leaves each year. So since you asked..

Perhaps you can learn mouse math, understand how budgets work, and how NCAA rules apply. I give you facts and you do not like them, so you attack the reality. Budget is $34,900,000 You need to cut $6.98 million per the President's directive. You are already dealing with an $8 million reduction in subsidies from the university under the previous “Action Plan", which has not been transparent and no one knows what all has been cut. To Brother Lee Adams' post, there is no fat on the bone, and the current athletics management personnel have run in the red every year they have been in charge. In fact, the last balanced budget at Akron Athletics was in 1999-00 so it's closing in on 20 years of running in the red. Reality is D1 Athletics is not working at Akron, fiscally speaking. Counter that with facts...

A 20% reduction in The Athletic Dept. budget is going to come from where? The Department is already nowhere close to be 'self supporting', never has been. 20% is a big chunk of change particularly when there is an over reliance on student fees to stay in business. Obviously a lot of that support will go away because it appears a lot of student fee revenue will go away. To me the most telling part of the statement was when Miller said 'there is considerable uncertainty about the future of mid-major Division I athletics'. That shows his attitude toward what all athletics will look like at UofA in the future. I fear that this health crisis simply accelerated what may have occurred further on down the road.

I'm not a big fan of across the board decisions. For the athletic budget, I think all non-revenue sports should be severely starved. Treat them almost like good intramural programs with volunteer coaches and drive yourself travel etc (drop programs where allowed by affilations and Title 9). I've never been an advocate of whoring out our football program for revenue, but we need now to buy alot of lipstick and get as many non-conference games with rich programs as possible (four instead of two or three). Same goes for men's basketball. Soccer should be safe as is. Instead we seem to be lowering possible success for the revenue sports by across the board cuts. We are playing checkers with these decisions when we should be playing chess (ie - try to slightly increase spending on football). Also, note that FCS (mentioned earlier in this thread) was previouly called I-AA (IA - now FBS is the top tier where Akron competes). Lastly, any thought of student athletes getting anything other than a scholarship for competing in sports at the college level should be shelved indefinitly. A free education at a school like Akron is worth a hell of a lot and the athletes should recognize that.

I believe this is exactly why the G5 conferences petitioned the NCAA to give them greater flexibility in the number of sports required. I'm sure they have an eye to cut some sports.

Georgia Tech actually had a postseason ban this year. Not that it mattered any since there was no postseason.

If it sells like some of their other stuff, I will get one in a grab bag at next year's Spring game.