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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">I think a true fan of the Vandals would support the team regardless of the division or the opponent. People that support UI support the <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-1><SPAN>decisions</SPAN></SPAN> that are for the best interests of the University and student success. </SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">UI is not a big athletics college, it is the Flagship of the academics for the state of Idaho, that is why people in Moscow don't care which division. They will support UI <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-4><SPAN>unconditionally</SPAN></SPAN>.<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR></SPAN></div>
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<DIV dir=ltr>It's interesting comparing the reactions to the possible options facing Vandal athletics from the posters on Vandal Venue and those who have probably never heard of the site. The large majority of these people on the forum are alumni who live away from Moscow. Many live in the Treasure Valley, and most of that group travel to Moscow for virtually every home game. They are hard core fans, and the angst currently on the board is rather abundant. This morning, in reaction to word that President Nellis has "not ruled out" a return to the Big Sky, I'm reading responses like "if this happens, I'll never set foot on campus again", "my son has been planning on attending the U of I in the fall, but if this happens, we'll seriously reevaluate that decision", "turn off the lights, the U of I is toast", the return to 1-AA will put the institution into a death spiral, and more. But in Moscow, the town that is home to the
school, interest in the whole affair is seemingly nonexistent. "WAC, Sun Belt, independent, Big Sky, who cares?", seems to be the prevalent attitude here. I have no idea what, if anything, that means. Maybe the super fans need to take a deep breath? <BR><BR>
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<DIV><SPAN>I don't think <SPAN id=yiv2055058304ecxmisspell-0><SPAN>athletes</SPAN></SPAN> are inferior to anyone else, in academic performance or in anything else. But they do cost <SPAN id=yiv2055058304ecxmisspell-0 class=yiv2055058304mark>UI</SPAN> more money than other <SPAN id=yiv2055058304ecxmisspell-2><SPAN><SPAN id=yiv2055058304ecxmisspell-1>scholarship </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>students because they have to be provided with expensive buildings, equipment, and salaries for coaches and trainers for the athletes.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN>The biggest contributor to <SPAN id=yiv2055058304ecxmisspell-1 class=yiv2055058304mark>UI</SPAN> is not football, it is the Idaho taxpayer, then the federal taxpayer, the private companies paying <SPAN id=yiv2055058304ecxmisspell-4><SPAN>for research and use of <SPAN id=yiv2055058304ecxmisspell-2 class=yiv2055058304mark>UI</SPAN> land</SPAN></SPAN>, and then the students. Athletics generate a loss for the <SPAN id=yiv2055058304ecxmisspell-3 class=yiv2055058304mark>UI</SPAN>. The <SPAN id=yiv2055058304ecxmisspell-4 class=yiv2055058304mark>Kibbie</SPAN> Dome and the golf course alone both cost millions and millions of dollars to maintain every year only. If you have numbers otherwise, please provide. But when I attended <SPAN id=yiv2055058304ecxmisspell-5 class=yiv2055058304mark>UI</SPAN> its athletic department netted millions in the negative. </SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN>We needed a marching band with Big Sky, and we would still need one. <SPAN id=yiv2055058304ecxmisspell-8><SPAN>Lionel</SPAN></SPAN> Hampton will not change with less money spent on <SPAN id=yiv2055058304ecxmisspell-9><SPAN>athletics</SPAN></SPAN>. In fact, it might be a better idea to shift money to the <SPAN id=yiv2055058304ecxmisspell-10><SPAN>musical</SPAN></SPAN> department from athletics as music students usually outperform all other students in academics <SPAN id=yiv2055058304ecxmisspell-11><SPAN>achievement</SPAN></SPAN>. And the <SPAN id=yiv2055058304ecxmisspell-12><SPAN>Lionel</SPAN></SPAN> Hampton Festival attracts a great deal of national and regional participation. </SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN>I believe that if students saved millions on athletics and put it into scholarships we could easily have more students, and more minority students because the cost of student fees would be significantly less and more <SPAN id=yiv2055058304ecxmisspell-13><SPAN>minority</SPAN></SPAN> students could afford college. </SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal" class=yiv2055058304ecxyiv255053838MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">One of the <SPAN id=yiv2055058304ecxmisspell-8 class=yiv2055058304mark>misperceptions</SPAN> you have about student athletes is that they somehow or another are inferior to non-athletes. This might be true at <SPAN id=yiv2055058304ecxmisspell-9 class=yiv2055058304mark>BSU</SPAN> (I had to take that shot), but if you look at overall <SPAN id=yiv2055058304ecxmisspell-10 class=yiv2055058304mark>GPA's</SPAN> and graduation rates, those on athletic scholarships at Idaho outperform the overall student body by a substantial margin. Once those on athletic scholarships graduate they tend to land better jobs and be better donors back to the <SPAN id=yiv2055058304ecxmisspell-11 class=yiv2055058304mark>UI</SPAN>. Football is by far the biggest generator of revenue for the <SPAN id=yiv2055058304ecxmisspell-12
class=yiv2055058304mark>UI</SPAN> and, as it has been often quoted, it is impossible to convince 13,000 people (<SPAN id=yiv2055058304ecxmisspell-13 class=yiv2055058304mark>UI</SPAN>) or 116,000 people (Michigan) on a Saturday to spend 4 hours of their lives watching a academic debate/event of any kind. I personally have flown from Fairbanks to Moscow to watch 4 football games while my son (marching band) has been at the U of I. My son attends the <SPAN id=yiv2055058304ecxmisspell-14 class=yiv2055058304mark>UI</SPAN> because of the Lionel Hampton School of Music.<SPAN> </SPAN>Marching band, pep band other musical opportunities that exist there in large part because of football; without football marching band would not exist (and in my personal case I would bleed out a lot less money because he would probably attend school here in Alaska). As for your argument that shrinking, or even
eliminating athletics would lead to greater enrollment of minorities, I would firmly state that you are wrong. We all like to paint the <SPAN id=yiv2055058304ecxmisspell-15 class=yiv2055058304mark>UI</SPAN> as the Northwest's version of Harvard, but let’s get real for a moment and admit that the <SPAN id=yiv2055058304ecxmisspell-16 class=yiv2055058304mark>UI</SPAN> only still exists because of it land-grant status, and now large alumni base that fights for our college, the Boise controlled legislature would have long ago moved the campus to Boise; Albion State Normal School is proof that without sports, a large alumni base, and land grant status colleges die in Idaho.</SPAN></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN>I don't think it does, Sunil. I just think football is the biggest generator of revenue. <SPAN><SPAN id=yiv2055058304ecxmisspell-18 class=yiv2055058304mark>UI</SPAN></SPAN> administrators might also point to donations and sales of <SPAN><SPAN id=yiv2055058304ecxmisspell-19 class=yiv2055058304mark>UI</SPAN></SPAN> products as revenues from football. Athletic scholarships help as well, but even a full scholarship covers only 20% of a student's tab, as the State of Idaho and federal government the 80%. </SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">My understanding, however, whenever I looked into the situation while at <SPAN><SPAN><SPAN id=yiv2055058304ecxmisspell-26 class=yiv2055058304mark>UI</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>, was that <SPAN><SPAN><SPAN id=yiv2055058304ecxmisspell-27 class=yiv2055058304mark>UI</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> athletics always cost the <SPAN><SPAN><SPAN id=yiv2055058304ecxmisspell-28 class=yiv2055058304mark>UI</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> more in revenues than it ever brought in and football only helped to offset those huge expenses. If this is so, I would surmise the shrinking of <SPAN><SPAN><SPAN id=yiv2055058304ecxmisspell-29 class=yiv2055058304mark>UI</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> athletics would reduce costs to the <SPAN><SPAN><SPAN id=yiv2055058304ecxmisspell-30 class=yiv2055058304mark>UI</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> overall and allow more minority students an opportunity to attend <SPAN><SPAN><SPAN id=yiv2055058304ecxmisspell-31
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<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN><BR>As much of a die-hard Vandal as I am and as much of what remaining in Division 1A may mean to the <SPAN><SPAN><SPAN id=yiv2055058304ecxmisspell-38 class=yiv2055058304mark>UI</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> Athletic Program, the boys of Bozo State, coupled with the loss of <SPAN><SPAN><SPAN id=yiv2055058304ecxmisspell-39 class=yiv2055058304mark>UI's</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> "Flagship" moniker, have taught me one valuable lesson . . .<BR><BR>It simply is NOT that important!<BR><BR>Boise State is a prime example of what can happen if your priorities are messed up. Boise State has been a four-year college since the 60s. Although their football program has become a national Division 1A contender, their academic program remains at tier 3 along with a majority of northwest community colleges . . . not one PhD program and very few masters programs, while the University of Idaho has evolved into a
nationally competitive tier 1 source of higher education and possesses a wide variety of many graduate programs.<BR><BR><SPAN><SPAN><SPAN id=yiv2055058304ecxmisspell-40 class=yiv2055058304mark>Seeya</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> round town, Moscow.<BR><BR>Tom Hansen<BR>Moscow, Idaho <BR>(<SPAN><SPAN><SPAN id=yiv2055058304ecxmisspell-41 class=yiv2055058304mark>UI</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> '96, Information Systems)<BR><BR>"If not us, who?<BR>If not now, when?"<BR><BR>- Unknown<BR><BR><BR><BR>On May 2, 2012, at 11:08, Carl <SPAN><SPAN><SPAN id=yiv2055058304ecxmisspell-42 class=yiv2055058304mark>Westberg</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> <<A href="mailto:idahovandal1@live.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:idahovandal1@live.com">idahovandal1@live.com</A>> wrote:<BR><BR>> I've brought this subject up before, but recent conference shuffling events really seem to have put U of Idaho athletics in a very hard place. No Division 1 conference seems to want the
Vandals. I just saw a <SPAN><SPAN><SPAN id=yiv2055058304ecxmisspell-43 class=yiv2055058304mark>Facebook</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> poll asking which of three options respondents would prefer given the circumstances. 1. Try playing as a D-1 independent, which would probably mean about three home games a year while hoping for an eventual conference invitation. 2. Play, again, in the Sun Belt (teams in Louisiana, Tennessee...) to stay D-1. If the Sun Belt wanted Idaho. 3. Swallow pride and return to 1-AA and the Big Sky. So far in the <SPAN><SPAN><SPAN id=yiv2055058304ecxmisspell-44 class=yiv2055058304mark>Facebook</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> poll, the Big Sky leads comfortably. Any thoughts? Or is it even a concern outside of the hard core fans?<BR>> =======================================================<BR>> List services made available by First Step Internet,<BR>> serving the communities of
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