UK & Virginia to drop football?

[WildBillPicks7]

Is this true? SBNation is saying that Kentucky will be disbanding football after the 2015 season? Also UVA to concentrate on other sports and will do the same with football?

Financial pressures and cost of insurance going up could kill football at a lot of D1 schools, just as it did at UAB!

Egads!

:scared

 

[Bombs]

Is this true? SBNation is saying that Kentucky will be disbanding football after the 2015 season? Also UVA to concentrate on other sports and will do the same with football?

Financial pressures and cost of insurance going up could kill football at a lot of D1 schools, just as it did at UAB!

Egads!

:scared

http://wbkr.com/look-what-day-it-is-then-read-about-uk-shutting-down-football/

There were other similar articles for other schools including Stanford. April fools for wild bill.

 

[WildBillPicks7]

http://wbkr.com/look-what-day-it-is-then-read-about-uk-shutting-down-football/

There were other similar articles for other schools including Stanford. April fools for wild bill.

Thanks Bombs!!

Ya, probably April fools, but when lilstening to some talk shows and knowing a few admin folks at some major U's, it is not out of the realm that some top D1 programs will drop football in the next 1-5 years, including schools like UVA and Kentucky.

Or we may see some major schools drop down in affliation and play schools from the Mo Valley, Big Sky, lower D1 non-BCS schools to cut back on rosters and expenses.

UAB went years without a football team, then they put one in place with Watson Brown of all coaches a school that was known for college hoops because of Gene Bartow, but competing against Bama and other instate D1 schools for recruits just never stayed consistent but UAB did produce a few NFL players, most notably, WR Roddy White, but to just drop football in a blink of an eye at the end of the season (2014) like UAB did, you might see some other schools follow suit and do the same thing.

We never know what these administrators and school boards think!

 

[Mr. Poon]

There is no probably, they were April Fool's jokes.

UAB had more in play then the numbers they relaid to the media. Pressures from legislators who were tied to Alabama or Auburn had a major impact.

D1 Football is still the kingpin in the business of college athletics. Basketball is a distant second but still does well for the right schools. Schools that are in major conferences like Kentucky and Virginia will never drop football under the current structure.

 

[HankWilliamsJr]

:facepalm:


just try to fool hank...hank is no dummbie :0002:0002

 

[WildBillPicks7]

There is no probably, they were April Fool's jokes.

UAB had more in play then the numbers they relaid to the media. Pressures from legislators who were tied to Alabama or Auburn had a major impact.

D1 Football is still the kingpin in the business of college athletics. Basketball is a distant second but still does well for the right schools. Schools that are in major conferences like Kentucky and Virginia will never drop football under the current structure.

A couple contacts of mine with UVA, Mr P, told me in Tampa a few days ago, the admin is scary there and that the talk about dropping football is not out of the realm of possibilities, season ticket holders have diminished and the better VA HS kids are going elsewhere, just as they did when I was in HS in 1977-78 in the Hampton Roads area.

I never thought UN-Omaha would ever drop football and along came Trev Albers (former U of Neb grad in Lincoln and NFL player with the Indy Colts) and wallah, UNO drops football?? How could that be? UNO had many players that played and are still playing in the NFL and I remember a game back in the early 70's where I got to see Walter Payton score 8 TDS for Jackson St vs UNO in a 77-0 whooping for Sandy Buda and the UNO Mavs program and more than put Sweetness on the NFL map. Politics have ruined UNO and have ruined football for returning there until they get some like minded people in the board of directors and administration to bring football back to UNO where they could compete with SD ST, ND St, UND and USD in the Summit for football.

Kentucky is headed in the right direction and it would shock me to see UK drop football, but it wouldn't surprise me either if they did, but Stoops has the program going in the right direction. But what is shocking on paper financially to see is UK Hoops brought in more revenue this year than the football program did in 2013 and 2014. Now that's scary!

Thanks for the input Bombs & Mr P!

:0008

 

[BobbyBlueChip]

There is no probably, they were April Fool's jokes.

UAB had more in play then the numbers they relaid to the media. Pressures from legislators who were tied to Alabama or Auburn had a major impact.

D1 Football is still the kingpin in the business of college athletics. Basketball is a distant second but still does well for the right schools. Schools that are in major conferences like Kentucky and Virginia will never drop football under the current structure.

Do you know any contacts at Virginia so that you can refute wildbills claims?

 

[HankWilliamsJr]

nobody asked hank but hank heard things like this but i thought it was virginia state....my source must have given hank wrong info about the school......sounds like it was true

:shrug:

 

[Mr. Poon]

Do you know any contacts at Virginia so that you can refute wildbills claims?

I don't have any contacts. I do know UVa gets $20mil, which is more than 1/5 of their annual athletic department revenue, from the tv contract of the ACC. They drop football, the biggest factor for those contracts, and they are walking away from a tidy sum.

Given the current tv contracts, there isn't a school that is a part of the big 5 conferences that will drop football given the current financial structure and the amounts these contracts pay out.

 

[BobbyBlueChip]

I don't have any contacts. I do know UVa gets $20mil, which is more than 1/5 of their annual athletic department revenue, from the tv contract of the ACC. They drop football, the biggest factor for those contracts, and they are walking away from a tidy sum.

Given the current tv contracts, there isn't a school that is a part of the big 5 conferences that will drop football given the current financial structure and the amounts these contracts pay out.

So you're saying that normally institutions don't drop programs that are profitable to spend money on programs that aren't profitable. Interesting take but it'd be much more credible if you had contacts at Virginia. Just saying.

 

[WildBillPicks7]

I don't have any contacts. I do know UVa gets $20mil, which is more than 1/5 of their annual athletic department revenue, from the tv contract of the ACC. They drop football, the biggest factor for those contracts, and they are walking away from a tidy sum.

Given the current tv contracts, there isn't a school that is a part of the big 5 conferences that will drop football given the current financial structure and the amounts these contracts pay out.

Totally great info, Mr P!!

When talking to Jared and Mychal who both played football at UVA, that was one of their points that school may not drop football and they had a good turnout at the turnstyles this year for hoops again which brought in more $$ than in years past, more than what football brought in, the UCLA game they had a guarantee payout for home/home series, this yr they travel to UCLA for foots.

After the TV contract they may be looking at joining another conference which I can't see, but anything is possible, given Maryland and Rutgers both joined the BIG 10-12-14 conference.

:0074

 

[HankWilliamsJr]

Totally great info, Mr P!!

When talking to Jared and Mychal who both played football at UVA, that was one of their points that school may not drop football and they had a good turnout at the turnstyles this year for hoops again which brought in more $$ than in years past, more than what football brought in, the UCLA game they had a guarantee payout for home/home series, this yr they travel to UCLA for foots.

After the TV contract they may be looking at joining another conference which I can't see, but anything is possible, given Maryland and Rutgers both joined the BIG 10-12-14 conference.

:0074

maybe we have the same source wild bill?

:shrug:

 

[WildBillPicks7]

maybe we have the same source wild bill?

:shrug:

:shrug:

 

[Mr. Poon]

There is no probably, they were April Fool's jokes.

UAB had more in play then the numbers they relaid to the media. Pressures from legislators who were tied to Alabama or Auburn had a major impact.

D1 Football is still the kingpin in the business of college athletics. Basketball is a distant second but still does well for the right schools. Schools that are in major conferences like Kentucky and Virginia will never drop football under the current structure.

UAB's football program wasn't losing money as alleged.

http://espn.go.com/college-football...pped-financial-reasons-made-money-study-finds