At this point I'm not really sure why this is considered "news" anymore. You can almost bet that every small school is doing something along the lines of evaluating their athletic programs.

"[Todd] Turner said the federal government might have to step in 'to bring some sanity to the landscape.'” Hmm . . . wonder what he means by this.

"Athletes also often don’t get to take in the full college experience because of sports commitments, he added."

For one thing, the football players don't get to see the halftime show.

I assume this is just giving air cover to an eventual elimination of sports such as gymnastics, etc. that other MAC schools don't support.

Or...KSU is getting smart and considering becoming the first MAC program to de-escalate in the D-1 war? The whole league needs to consider taking a stand against today's BS. Become the league that is serious about doing college sports the right way. There's equity in that.

Does not the NCAA have a rule that a university has to have a certain number of varsity sports in order to be classified d1(FBS)? I thought at one time I had heard 14 but I can't find any info on that right now. Kent State only has 16 varsity sports(7 men, 9 women) so they don't have a lot to cut if the above question is correct. What would they cut as well? With Title 9 the cut would almost have to be in men's sports. Cutting track and field or cross country is not going to add much to helping the budget. Wrestling has always been a popular whipping boy for cuts but it is also probably their most successful sport. Baseball is another success story that would be hard to see being cut. A drop to FCS may very well be in the cards for KSU.

In the numbers from another school that I posted in another thread, two of the biggest losers were cross-country for men and women, losing $3.3m combined. Kent probably doesn't spend that much on it, but I'm sure they can save $2-3m from cutting a couple sports.

You can do what OHIO did under Thomas Boeh and simply defund the sport by taking the scholarships, like he did with Men's swimming and for the most part Men's track and CC. That is where your money is.

I see one of two things happening in the future for college football as it pertains to the MAC.

1) Some kind of anti-trust situation gets pushed such that the "Power 5" are forced to allow all conference champions into their little playoff, and thereby allowing some sort of more equal sharing of the giant TV ad dollars.

2) The MAC, and other conferences like it eventually give up the ghost and drop to FCS, where the dollars invested may not have to be as significant. Granted, I know absolutely zero about the way dropping could affect expenses, or the bottom line. Personally, I'd still go to home games often, because I'm there for the full game day experience more than just the game.

Here's the problem with anti-trust. It's a hollow threat. Just because some Utah politicians scream it when convenient or the Boise President keeps yelling it doesn't mean there's any substance.

Here's the reasoning. The G5 are voluntarily aligning themselves with the P5. Nobody is holding a gun to their head or coercing them to sign onto these agreements. Right now, the G5 are 100% free to break away, form their own playoffs, line up their own venues, get their own television deals etc. Now, if hypothetically, the P5 used their market sway to stymie the G5 with playoff venues and television contracts--say went to the networks and said, "if you do business with these schools, you'll lose access to us" that is collusion and antitrust. That--in the absence of such collusion--the G5 product wouldn't be worth anything to the networks is not antitrust. It's market economics dictating price. I'll also bet that the bean counters at many a G5 school have come to the conclusion that the G5 schools are better with what they're getting from their arrangement with the P5 than they would be breaking off on their own. Again, that's not some insidious antitrust scenario; it's market economics.

Now take into account that the US largely stopped enforcing the Sherman Anti-Trust Act in the 1980s, and it's a policy that's been upheld by both Democratic and Republican administrations, clinging to the antitrust is fool's gold for anyone thinking it will lead to some playoff access or equal revenue sharing.

Wrestling can't go far, and baseball is only endanger on the East Coast and the Midwest. There are several southern schools that make more revenue on there baseball than they do on their basketball in ticket revenue. And if you've ever attended a college W'S, you know that's big $$$$

They put several million into updates at Dix Stadium and did, I thought, a very nice job. If their consultant considers that stadium outdated, ours would be considered equivalent with some high school facilities.

...which is exactly why we should be spending a cool 6 mil on a friggin' study hall in one of the endzones. Perfectly logical when our main facilities lack basic amenities, let alone the polish of several competing facilities.