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Message: [QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 4048160, member: 71"] Excellent post but there are a couple points I'd like to make. The jabs about the age of the women's team's fan base started in the mid 1990's when we were still lobbying for support to move up a level in football. It wasn't that JC was angry that football was getting donations for their practice facility/training center. His issue was that no effort was being expended to raise funds for a much needed basketball facility. Additionally, during JH's time as athletic director, increasing payroll pretty much anywhere within the athletic department was like pulling teeth (and JH happened to continually bring his management of staffing costs as a reason for bonus payments). That said, the overarching point (which I still am baffled by) is why so many people who should be at a minimum passively supportive of the football program are so opposed to idea of trying to compete at this level. We've had a horrible decade and people have been coming out of the woodwork for a few years now stumping to have football drop down to FCS. Even when we were at our best 11-14 years ago, they were publicly belittling what was being accomplished. I can't think of any other school that has to deal with anything close to this. Around the time that Kansas State had completed 100 years of football (Snyder was in his first run as HC) they had more winless seasons than they had winning seasons (each was around 15). Memphis (as Memphis St early on) had a thirty year run, beginning in the mid 1970's where they had four winning seasons. Over the last 25 years of that same time frame Temple and Rutgers performances weren't much better than Memphis. This past decade of UConn football doesn't scratch the surface of what other programs have endured but we have people everywhere arguing that we need to give up football at this level. I would love to know why this stance is so important to them. [/QUOTE]

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