If we are not going to be serious

[dbartn]

About football get out of big ten and become Div2 school where we can compete.

 

[IndySouthsider]

About football get out of big ten and become Div2 school where we can compete.

I would be on board with pulling an AUB.

 

[BoilerBonz]

I would be on board with pulling an AUB.

I assume you're referring to UAB -- as opposed to something AUBurn did?

 

[banshee90]

but then how would we fund all the other non revenue generating sports? The BTN was probably the worse thing to happen to Purdue now we can just freaking suck and still bank $30-40MM a year. But hey maybe we can win a national championship in underwater basket weaving?

 

[JohnHoosierr]

Our women's golf team is looking damn good this year! Who cares about football?

 

[BoilerBonz]

but then how would we fund all the other non revenue generating sports? The BTN was probably the worse thing to happen to Purdue now we can just freaking suck and still bank $30-40MM a year. But hey maybe we can win a national championship in underwater basket weaving?

There is more truth in what you say than any of us would care to believe. Look at what MB did with Hope and his assistants -- it was literally a cost-minimization model with no chance of being competitive unless we were the recipients of just pure luck -- and now that MB has taken the "gamble" of investing in football and realized the same, or less, revenue, while spending a lot more -- my guess is that he'll go back to a cost-minimization model for football since now he can run the department off the BTN $$$.