[Husker] No UNO football? (and wrestling)

[Aaron Wolfson]

One correction: UNO plans to join the Summit League in basketball, whose
current champion Oakland, another city school, is a #13 seed and will be
playing Texas this week. They have an NBA prospect at center named Keith
Benson. Such a vision is probably a ways into the future for UNO, but it
becomes possible with the move to D1. It will certainly be sad to see
football and wrestling go, however.

Aaron Wolfson
University of Nebraska at Omaha


On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Mike Jaixen <mikejaixen at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Actually, it is all budget related. UNO's athletic department needed $5
> million
> in support from the University. At the same time, the University is dealing
> with
> a flat level of state support to all of the University while expenses
> continue
> to increase.  So something has to give, and frankly, without any hope that
> football could start making inroads into that deficit, it became something
> that
> couldn't be sustained.
>
> The move to D-1 is with the intention that basketball could become revenue
> positive. The thought is that UNO could play money basketball games around
> the
> region playing schools like Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa State, plus improve
> attendance by playing Division 1 opponents.  Win the Horizon League
> championship, and UNO is in the Big Dance and makes a nice chunk of change.
>
> But that spells the end of wrestling.  Wrestling doesn't cost much at the
> D-2
> level, but would cost significantly more at the D-1 level. Plus since the
> Horizon League doesn't sponsor wrestling but does sponsor other men's
> sports,
> they'd have to find another league for wrestling (doable) and still add
> golf and
> men's soccer programs.  That causes gender equity issues, which requires
> adding
> another women's sport, which makes keeping wrestling financially difficult
> at
> best.
>
> Sucks for the wrestling program, which won it's third national championship
> over
> the weekend.
>
>  Mike Jaixen
> http://huskermike.blogspot.com
> http://www.cornnation.com
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Andy Knipp <andy at knipp.com>
> To: Kathy Jackson <kj60028 at windstream.net>; husker at tssi.com
> Sent: Mon, March 14, 2011 9:35:31 AM
> Subject: RE: [Husker] No UNO football? (and wrestling)
>
> Thing is, this is not budget related. UNO wants to go to a D1 conference.
> That does not have FB or wrestling. Quite a shame because UNO just won its
> 3rd consecutive D2 championship in wrestling.
>
> Trev does not seem to be a fan of wrestling (some of this other things he
> did were not wrestling friendly).
>
> Andy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf
> Of
> Kathy Jackson
> Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 4:57 AM
> To: husker at tssi.com
> Subject: [Husker] No UNO football? (and wrestling)
>
> Saw the article in today's LJS - who would have thought?  I guess the
> global
> fiscal crisis really has hit Nebraska.
>
> Kathy Jackson
>
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