| Upgrade facilities to attract coaches, student-athletes, and fans. |
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| Eliminate one or more sports to better support the others. |
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| Move some or all programs from Division I to Division II status. |
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| Join new conference with other Illinois or closer to home universities. |
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| Gain attendance/dollar support from community, students, and alumni. |
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| Replace administrators and coaches of losing or mismanaged programs. |
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| None of the above. |
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I have not seen a poll in a while, maybe now is a good time for one.
Happy voting!
Still fond of Purple and Gold. Go 'Necks!
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I like the poll and most have missed the original post. I voted for eliminating some sports. It would be nice to have as many sports options as possible, but financially it doesn't make sense.....sorry swim fans, but I feel football is a more important program to the university and swimming should be axed AGAIN. This would free up some cash and help aid in the financial down time.
I'm against moving down to DII as I believe we can still compete at the DI level. Next years football team will do much better and I'm talking .500 or better. It looks like the basketball team is getting a little better and next year they might be in a position to make things happen. Big fan of Coach MO and his recruiting ability!!!!! With that being said I'm a strong believer that basketball and football performance can impact each others recruiting. Look at Villanova (FCS Football Champs/Good Basketball), UNI (ranked in BB and always a great fb team), and if I recall SIU was making bball noise around the time they turned around their football program.
A move in conference would help for basketball, but lets wait until we actually do something in a weaker league. Then we can talk.
Upgrading of the football and basketball arena's would be ideal, but that costs money. Tuff times and not a lot of recent success in the programs might hinder the chances of this happening anytime soon.
Finally, I think the coaching and admin changes are coming. Like everything else we'll have to wait and see.
Good luck to everyone in 2010 and as always.....Lets go Necks.
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You support cutting swimming but feel we must keep football.
Look at what other universities are doing - cutting football because it is so expensive.
And we do need to be careful in terms of gender equity. Currently we are treading a very fine line saying we are equitable by having the same number of men's and women's sports. Yet, the overwhelming trend is to have more women's sports than men's because of the great numbers disparity football causes. There is not other team with 100 players and a practice squad with in the neighborhood of 60 full scholarships, plus a dozen coaches.
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The ratio is consistent with most universities that field a football team, so i'm not sure what you're trying to get at. I didn't recommend cutting only the women's swimming and diving team nor any other women's only sport.
As a football fan and someone who takes pride in the football team I wouldn't want to see it go. Plus I feel it would be a negative for the university. I feel this because WIU in Macomb, IL is viewed by a lot of outsiders as a less then average college and if we cut our biggest sports program it would only cause an even more negative view of who we are and where we're heading.
There would be articles outside the Macomb area if we cut the football team. I'm sure the first time the swimming and diving teams were cut, there was much printed out there. If so, most people probably thought, "Western had a swimming team????"
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If you check other schools, including those in our conference, you will find that those with FB programs generally have added additional sports so that there are more total women's sports options then men's sports options to make up for the disparately large number of football programs.
While we might like to resolve this by adding women's sports, financially we can't support an increase. So the solution then becomes eliminate men's programs if you wish to keep FB, e.g., 10 women's and 8 men's sports.
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Oh good, I was hoping that we could talk about title IX.
Hey folks, it ain't no secret we have got to get our facilities looking like D-1 facilities. Also, I feel we have outstayed our relevance in the Summit League. This league does not have any of the same members or the same name of the league we were a charter member in. I say we make like the Crusaders and join the Horizon. Hell, logistically even the OVC makes more sense (although that would pose a problem with football then).
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| ...maybe WIU could cut a few programs without a lawsuit threat if we allowed women to play football!.....just kidding....
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It is fine and dandy for everyone to say let's go to Horizon, let's go to Ohio valley, but...... You have to be invited and last I knew, no was inviting us.
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[quote]B-Ball Fan (1/20/2010)
It is fine and dandy for everyone to say let's go to Horizon, let's go to Ohio valley, but...... You have to be invited and last I knew, no was inviting us.[/quot
This is very true. Before there can be any new conference affiliation, we have to get our ship in order.
However, when Mo gets the Basketball program back to winning (which he will) then we need to seriously make it a priority to extricate ourselves from the current conference affiliation which no longer makes sense.
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Don't get me wrong on this because I too wish we were with the Horizon League, BUT 1 program will NOT get us an invite.
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