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Officials say ULM won't be following UAB's football footsteps
Posted on 12/12/14 at 1:52 pm
Posted on 12/12/14 at 1:52 pm
UAB's decision last week to discontinue its football program continues to receive backlash from not only its players but the student body who continues to protest the decision.
The school is the first to cut football since Pacific in 1995 with the school citing the rising costs in college athletics.
As the Blazers' coaching staff and football players pick up the pieces and look for a new school to call home, the decision hits close to home in the Monroe area.
UAB's athletic budget ranked 83rd among FBS schools, and first-year head coach Bill Clark was drawing a $500,000 paycheck annually with a staff expense of $1,011,000.
If UAB can make the decision to cut football, does it make schools like ULM that much more likely to fall in line?
The ULM athletic budget remains the lowest among FBS schools with its most recent revenue recorded at $11,231,311 — UAB reported a total revenue of $28,159,249.
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The school is the first to cut football since Pacific in 1995 with the school citing the rising costs in college athletics.
As the Blazers' coaching staff and football players pick up the pieces and look for a new school to call home, the decision hits close to home in the Monroe area.
UAB's athletic budget ranked 83rd among FBS schools, and first-year head coach Bill Clark was drawing a $500,000 paycheck annually with a staff expense of $1,011,000.
If UAB can make the decision to cut football, does it make schools like ULM that much more likely to fall in line?
The ULM athletic budget remains the lowest among FBS schools with its most recent revenue recorded at $11,231,311 — UAB reported a total revenue of $28,159,249.
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Posted on 12/12/14 at 1:58 pm to hsfolk
This is what happens when the prominent school in the state cares about more than just sucking up resources for its own football team.
Kudos to you LSU people
Kudos to you LSU people
Posted on 12/12/14 at 1:58 pm to hsfolk
Does ULM need a football program?
Posted on 12/12/14 at 1:58 pm to hsfolk
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first-year head coach Bill Clark was drawing a $500,000 paycheck annually with a staff expense of $1,011,000.
It's amazing that small schools with a limited budget still pay this much in coaches salary.
Posted on 12/12/14 at 2:07 pm to hsfolk
We should have all other public fbs programs in the state either shut down or dropped to fcs.
This post was edited on 12/12/14 at 2:08 pm
Posted on 12/12/14 at 2:53 pm to hsfolk
ulm, ull, tech, and Tulane should just kill their sports programs, and ULM should probably just kill the school altogether.
Posted on 12/12/14 at 3:30 pm to hsfolk
ULM should drop down to FCS.
Posted on 12/13/14 at 12:32 am to hsfolk
UAB was more than likely warned they needed to go Sun Belt Conference instead of Conference USA.
Every time a woman's or mans sport sport has to travel to Tulsa or Texas El Paso THEY HAVE TO FLY.
If they had moved to the Sun Belt the teams could have rode buses to most every game.
The pooch shite in his own house and now it stinks.
Every time a woman's or mans sport sport has to travel to Tulsa or Texas El Paso THEY HAVE TO FLY.
If they had moved to the Sun Belt the teams could have rode buses to most every game.
The pooch shite in his own house and now it stinks.
Posted on 12/13/14 at 1:03 am to hsfolk
ULM is about one chin-beard away from being a community college.
And in this economic climate, what's the point of having a 4th tier college in the most depressed city in the most depressed corner of the state?
Back to the point of football, with ULM you have a team with no fan base outside of its small city, a team with no history or tradition (#TalonsOut amirite?), and no plan to ever change this situation.
Not to mention their abysmal realtree uniforms are another black eye for the Pelican State.
And in this economic climate, what's the point of having a 4th tier college in the most depressed city in the most depressed corner of the state?
Back to the point of football, with ULM you have a team with no fan base outside of its small city, a team with no history or tradition (#TalonsOut amirite?), and no plan to ever change this situation.
Not to mention their abysmal realtree uniforms are another black eye for the Pelican State.
Posted on 12/14/14 at 7:34 am to hsfolk
Auburn board.
Posted on 12/14/14 at 8:03 am to hsfolk
The correct answer to all of this is that there are too many four year colleges of the touchable schools there should be two in Gods country and 3 in the south... To match appropriate population centers and preserving academic integrity as much as possible the solution is as follows Tech merges with lsus and moves all programs to shreveport. It is more practical as it provides a balance with lsuhsc there. Ulm remains untouched and possibly absorbs some remaining tech programs.
Among the south la schools it is highly impractical to have a four year university every 40 miles down I 10. As such ull and mcneese merge in lake charles
Lsu remains untouched. Selu and Nichols and uno combine in new orleans.
This is the only practical solution preserving our more cherished schools untouched and improving the others and placing them in the most viable community.
Among the south la schools it is highly impractical to have a four year university every 40 miles down I 10. As such ull and mcneese merge in lake charles
Lsu remains untouched. Selu and Nichols and uno combine in new orleans.
This is the only practical solution preserving our more cherished schools untouched and improving the others and placing them in the most viable community.
Posted on 12/14/14 at 10:52 am to hsfolk
With the wisdom of King Solomon, yours truly ULL Cool J presents the solution in which
1. All parties involved give up something
2. All get something
3. It Solves "UL" name issue
4. It Solves North/South LA division
5. Cuts costs administratively initially and through subsequent right-sizing and reorganizing/elimination of programs and curriculums
6. Eliminates two (albeit one small) athletic programs while creating a single solid, unified major program around which both the Shreveport and Monroe areas could rally. The enhanced program should be a viable candidate for a higher profile athletic conference.
What?
Merge La Tech, ULM, and LSUS into a single university.
How to entice all to agree?
1. Designate the new entity as the official flagship of the University of Louisiana System, and therefore authorized to brand itself as "Louisiana" academically, for sports, etc. All institutions would therefore give up their current names.
2. Eliminate campus designations. That is, a student attending any site is a "University of Louisiana" student and eventual graduate (as shown on their diploma), not UL-Shreveport, Ruston, or Monroe. All would have met the same standards.
3. Sports teams (under a new mascot and nickname) would play home games spread among the three locations. For example, football might be based in Ruston (centrally located) but play a game in Shreveport and one in Monroe each year. Basketball and other sports might host home games among the three sites.
4. Colleges/departments would be consolidated under a single dean/head based on what makes best sense, geographically, administratively and academically. For example business professors at Ruston and Shreveport might report to a dean based in Monroe.
5. Individual campuses may continue to host key legacy programs (e.g., pharmacy in Monroe) but it opens opportunity for access by students in Shreveport and Ruston through alternate-site classes and teleconferencing. Likewise, Shreveport and Monroe students would have access to engineering programs in Ruston.
6. A new restructured enhanced institution would invigorate alums and the local public which could spur increased contributions, participation and even warrant addition of new cost-effective programs.
There are many issues that would have to be worked out, but why would this not be a step in the right direction?
1. All parties involved give up something
2. All get something
3. It Solves "UL" name issue
4. It Solves North/South LA division
5. Cuts costs administratively initially and through subsequent right-sizing and reorganizing/elimination of programs and curriculums
6. Eliminates two (albeit one small) athletic programs while creating a single solid, unified major program around which both the Shreveport and Monroe areas could rally. The enhanced program should be a viable candidate for a higher profile athletic conference.
What?
Merge La Tech, ULM, and LSUS into a single university.
How to entice all to agree?
1. Designate the new entity as the official flagship of the University of Louisiana System, and therefore authorized to brand itself as "Louisiana" academically, for sports, etc. All institutions would therefore give up their current names.
2. Eliminate campus designations. That is, a student attending any site is a "University of Louisiana" student and eventual graduate (as shown on their diploma), not UL-Shreveport, Ruston, or Monroe. All would have met the same standards.
3. Sports teams (under a new mascot and nickname) would play home games spread among the three locations. For example, football might be based in Ruston (centrally located) but play a game in Shreveport and one in Monroe each year. Basketball and other sports might host home games among the three sites.
4. Colleges/departments would be consolidated under a single dean/head based on what makes best sense, geographically, administratively and academically. For example business professors at Ruston and Shreveport might report to a dean based in Monroe.
5. Individual campuses may continue to host key legacy programs (e.g., pharmacy in Monroe) but it opens opportunity for access by students in Shreveport and Ruston through alternate-site classes and teleconferencing. Likewise, Shreveport and Monroe students would have access to engineering programs in Ruston.
6. A new restructured enhanced institution would invigorate alums and the local public which could spur increased contributions, participation and even warrant addition of new cost-effective programs.
There are many issues that would have to be worked out, but why would this not be a step in the right direction?
This post was edited on 12/14/14 at 10:56 am
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