EWU potential to lower division?

[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."

[23Bison]

Sounds like they are now staying D1 football but may drop down in other sports.

[EndZoneQB]

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...

[NI4NI]

Is that even possible? Pretty crazy that a relatively top tier team is facing this...

Kinda what I was thinking.

[The_Sicatoka]

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

[The_Sicatoka]

On TwiX Kolpack also mentions problems at UNI.
https://twitter.com/KolpackInForum/s...7Ctwgr%5Etweet

[bstark28]

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?

[The_Sicatoka]

Is that even possible? Pretty crazy that a relatively top tier team is facing this...

There are budget woes everywhere ...

[The_Sicatoka]

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.

[The_Sicatoka]

EWU is running 6M/8W sports now. That is FCS minimum (14). They can't cut a sport and stay DI.*