The article makes no reference to it, but where would URI be today if it had gone through with its intended move to the NEC?
Georgetown: "We play where we do not compete, and compete where we do not play."
3-8Originally Posted by DFW HOYA
URI could actually be a pretty good program....not a lot of local talent, but it's a flag-ship university, in a very good football conference, nice campus/pretty good school academically.....if one can recruit/win at a Maine (or for that mattah South Dakota St et al), I don't see why URI should not have at least a halfway decent program.
Lot of politics though....
Only running on 58 schollies and not the full 63? So damn close why not get there?
Is it just me or is the article's headline more telling than the article itself?
Maybe they play a second FBS game every couple of years to boost the budget - that seems to be what Maine has done lately. Use that money to boost recruiting and start facilities renovations.
Reeder-good idea
URI dropping football would be such a travesty. Its one thing for Northeastern and BU, having to compete with BC. But URI? There is zero reason URI cant do what UNH and Maine do, quitting would look horrible. Not to mention, dropping football would mean URI has no football or hockey, which leaves zero connection between the other New England schools.
"We're New Hampshire born and we're New Hampshire bred and when we die we'll be New Hampshire dead, so it's ra ra New Hampshire Hampshire, ra ra New Hampshire Hampshire, pride of the granite state !"
These types of articles get floated every so often in this part of the FCS country. Plenty of football detractors now a days especially at a public FCS school. They only see the expense of the program & try to create a death spiral scenario.
It gets their soccer fan base all excited.
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