URI football: History is chasing us

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Uncle Ed
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Re: URI football: History is chasing us

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Last year's team had .500 or better talent. Fleming lead them to 3 wins. Sorry, this is not progress. Being a .500 team will take more than hope, it will take a better coach.
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R.Kelly150
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Rizzi could have successes here, but he jumped as soon as he could based upon the conditions and the fact that nothing was going to change. Plus it was a NFL job!
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ramster
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Re: URI football: History is chasing us

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Bumping this topic as several posters have brought up the Football Team again as wasting money.

Key quotes from the article:

Thorr Bjorn, the director of athletics, has heard the call to drop football since he took the job eight years ago but has not wavered in his support.
“My opinion has not changed. Football is very important,” he said when I spoke to him at the end of August. Football brings people to the Kingston campus five or six times a season for events that would not be held were it not for the sport. Last year, despite a one-win season, home attendance was good, he said. In addition, football contributes to the diversity of the student population in Kingston. Are those benefits worth the cost? Bjorn says yes.

Nevertheless, Bjorn and the URI administration are committed to football. A big reason that critics usually fail to comprehend is that football costs the university about $500,000. That’s all. You see, the football operating budget is about $1.3 million, and the athletic department raises about $800,000 of that total. This year the projections are $200,000 from donations and $150,000 from ticket sales. Syracuse paid a $400,000 guarantee. That’s right, the Rams collected $400,000 to travel to upstate New York to get whipped. Next year URI will head to Kansas for $500,000 and in 2017 to Eastern Michigan for $400,000. Boston College and UConn are future guarantee games.
What about scholarships, you ask? URI awards the equivalent of 58 full scholarships worth about $2.3 million to football players, Bjorn said. He agreed that even without a football program, the university would probably use that money for financial aid, unless it wanted to reduce expenses or enrollment.
So, for an outlay of $500,000 from the institution, URI gets a home opener, Family Day, Armed Forces Day, Homecoming, Saturdays are potential crowd pleasers. This year is also the 30th anniversary of the 1985 Yankee Conference championship, the 100th meeting of URI and Brown and the first meeting of URI and Harvard.


As has been mentioned by some posters, many of the Basketball Boosters are also Boosters for the Football Program. They have season tickets to both sports. Boosters for Football do not want to see Football dropped.

https://thepublicsradio.org/post/after- ... t#stream/0
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ramster
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Re: URI football: History is chasing us

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ramster wrote: 4 years ago Bumping this topic as several posters have brought up the Football Team again as wasting money.

Key quotes from the article:

Thorr Bjorn, the director of athletics, has heard the call to drop football since he took the job eight years ago but has not wavered in his support.
“My opinion has not changed. Football is very important,” he said when I spoke to him at the end of August. Football brings people to the Kingston campus five or six times a season for events that would not be held were it not for the sport. Last year, despite a one-win season, home attendance was good, he said. In addition, football contributes to the diversity of the student population in Kingston. Are those benefits worth the cost? Bjorn says yes.

Nevertheless, Bjorn and the URI administration are committed to football. A big reason that critics usually fail to comprehend is that football costs the university about $500,000. That’s all. You see, the football operating budget is about $1.3 million, and the athletic department raises about $800,000 of that total. This year the projections are $200,000 from donations and $150,000 from ticket sales. Syracuse paid a $400,000 guarantee. That’s right, the Rams collected $400,000 to travel to upstate New York to get whipped. Next year URI will head to Kansas for $500,000 and in 2017 to Eastern Michigan for $400,000. Boston College and UConn are future guarantee games.
What about scholarships, you ask? URI awards the equivalent of 58 full scholarships worth about $2.3 million to football players, Bjorn said. He agreed that even without a football program, the university would probably use that money for financial aid, unless it wanted to reduce expenses or enrollment.
So, for an outlay of $500,000 from the institution, URI gets a home opener, Family Day, Armed Forces Day, Homecoming, Saturdays are potential crowd pleasers. This year is also the 30th anniversary of the 1985 Yankee Conference championship, the 100th meeting of URI and Brown and the first meeting of URI and Harvard.


As has been mentioned by some posters, many of the Basketball Boosters are also Boosters for the Football Program. They have season tickets to both sports. Boosters for Football do not want to see Football dropped.

https://thepublicsradio.org/post/after- ... t#stream/0
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Bos8
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Re: URI football: History is chasing us

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Uncle Ed wrote: 6 years ago Last year's team had .500 or better talent. Fleming lead them to 3 wins. Sorry, this is not progress. Being a .500 team will take more than hope, it will take a better coach.
Good call...
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