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Message: [QUOTE="Rdkid, post: 4768086, member: 11865"] Football has the capacity to sink our athletic department at some point in the future, but that’s purely speculative. That would require another 5 years of losing in front of an empty Rent. Non-revenue programs will suffer. Basketball will be fine as long as March Madness exists. The general public’s investment in UConn bball is everything. The road forward in football outside of “win more” is in need of transparency and open debate if we keep losing and sucking up resources. And no, that is not a “drop football” suggestion, just a call for the laying out of viable options. I don’t see us paying players $35k/year as something viable for UConn football. The college sports world is moving fast, especially for public universities. We still don’t have substantive public comments from our AD or President on the B12 fiasco or our road forward in the pay-to-play world. Average P5 scholarship player making NIL $100k/yr and rising. 85 of them on a team. [/QUOTE]