EWU potential to lower division?
Per Kolpack in the Forum:
KHQ-TV in Spokane, Washington, is reporting the EWU Board of Trustees will be holding a meeting Friday with dropping football to a lower division on the table.
The station is reporting Eastern's football budget is "unsustainable" for a school of its size. The "Strategic Resource Allocation" report said "EWU's leadership needs to consider all options to decrease Football's unsustainable deficit spending, including moving Football to a lower division."
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Sounds like they are now staying D1 football but may drop down in other sports.
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23Bison
Sounds like they are now staying D1 football but may drop down in other sports.
Is that even possible? Pretty crazy that a relatively top tier team is facing this...
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EndZoneQB
Is that even possible? Pretty crazy that a relatively top tier team is facing this...
Kinda what I was thinking.
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There is no "down" in DI from FCS besides "no football".
Their legitimate options are:
- drop DI (FCS) FB
- Pioneer League (non-scholly) FB, but that adds a lot of travel so cost could be a wash
- move everything to DII and be with Central Wash and Western Wash
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cbline
Per Kolpack in the Forum:
KHQ-TV in Spokane, Washington, is reporting the EWU Board of Trustees will be holding a meeting Friday with dropping football to a lower division on the table.
The station is reporting Eastern's football budget is "unsustainable" for a school of its size. The "Strategic Resource Allocation" report said "EWU's leadership needs to consider all options to decrease Football's unsustainable deficit spending, including moving Football to a lower division."
If I remember correctly, wasn't this a possibility for them a couple years back, as well? Or, were they contemplating folding the program entirely?
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EndZoneQB
Is that even possible? Pretty crazy that a relatively top tier team is facing this...
There are budget woes everywhere ...
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If I remember correctly, wasn't this a possibility for them a couple years back, as well? Or, were they contemplating folding the program entirely?
You're not wrong; it's been a continuous low hum from there for a while.
I know a person on the EWU Foundation board.
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EWU is running 6M/8W sports now. That is FCS minimum (14). They can't cut a sport and stay DI.*