Has Marquette ever considered starting a football program again?

[reinko]

So you're telling me there's chance.

[GGGG]

Actually SacWarrior, the best scenario is for some MU scientist to genetically develop a pink unicorn that craps money.  That's got about as much chance as happening as your suggestion.

[ZiggysFryBoy]

You can put I4 down for about a 100 grand.

[HouWarrior]

Who says we need a stadium like Minnesota's?  Two other BCS football stadiums have opened recently:

Akron (capacity 30,000):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfoCision_Stadium_%E2%80%93_Summa_Field
Completed in 2009 for $61.6 million.  

Central Florida (capacity 45,000):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright_House_Networks_Stadium
Completed in 2007 for $55 Million

Its a nice straw man to pick out the most expensive new college football stadium of the last decade--perhaps ever--then casually suggest that we should "plan on" spending $25 to $50 million more.

In reality, we would build a more modest facility that is a) similar to Akron's or UCF's and b) will be dual-use, incorporating the Soccer facility we're already planning to build.

You confuse NCAA div 1 w bcs
The BE is a bcs conf and minn in big ten in is a bcs conf. neither akron, nor ucf are in bcs conf. its not a straw man its apples to apples
there is a big divide  in scope/cost of football below bcs. If MU wanted div 2 football such could be done-- but at great sacrfice risk to MU in BE for BB. few if any schools operate in div 2 in football and div 1 in bb. No BCS conf has any div 2 programs

[GGGG]

You confuse NCAA div 1 w bcs
The BE is a bcs conf and minn in big ten in is a bcs conf. neither akron, nor ucf are in bcs conf. its not a straw man its apples to apples
there is a big divide  in scope/cost of football below bcs. If MU wanted div 2 football such could be done-- but at great sacrfice risk to MU in BE for BB. few if any schools operate in div 2 in football and div 1 in bb. No BCS conf has any div 2 programs

MU could not be D2 in football.  They would have to play FCS (old D1A) either scholarship or non-scholarship.

[Marquette84]

You confuse NCAA div 1 w bcs
The BE is a bcs conf and minn in big ten in is a bcs conf. neither akron, nor ucf are in bcs conf. its not a straw man its apples to apples
there is a big divide  in scope/cost of football below bcs. If MU wanted div 2 football such could be done-- but at great sacrfice risk to MU in BE for BB. few if any schools operate in div 2 in football and div 1 in bb. No BCS conf has any div 2 programs

Sorry, but you are the one who is mistaken.

Check out www.bcsfootball.org.
http://www.bcsfootball.org/news/story?id=4809755

Akron is the the MAC. UCF is in CUSA  Both are in BCS conferences (although neither is in an automatically qualifying conference).

I would also suggest that you check out the NCAA site for the FBS list BCS teams)
http://web1.ncaa.org/onlineDir/exec/sponsorship?sortOrder=0&division=1A&sport=MFB

You'll note that Akron, UCF and Minnesota are all on this list.

[Litehouse]

Boston College?  Tulane?  Brigham Young?  Pitt?  Syracuse?

Pitt is public.

Tulane probably loses more money than Duke each year.  I don't know specifics, but I would guess Syracuse and BYU lose money also, and BC might be close to break-even.

[Brewtown Andy]

I can't believe this thread is still going with legitimate discussions.

[ZiggysFryBoy]

I can't believe this thread is still going with legitimate discussions.

I'd only support football if they changed the name back to warriors and let a fan throw a tomahawk through the uprights at half time.

[Avenue Commons]

More like $200 million.  You forgot the stadium.

The number is $100 million.

It is not going to happen. Not to name drop, but Cottingham and Cords have each personally told me it is simply not going to happen.

[mu72warrior]

Huh? If it wasn't for the non-sensical Top Ten list posted the other day, this might have been the worst attempt at humor I've seen on here in a long, long time.