Originally Posted by Flyerferd
UAC, I like your thinking. Another thought I did not see discussed in the article is this.
Full disclosure, this may have been how we landed Indiana state. Can we offer our football program as a sort of… Sacrificial lamb… To get a basketball team on our home schedule? I’m thinking about teams like Villanova, Middle Tennessee, basically any non-Mac And especially one AA teams. Why do we play Duquesne every year? Can we get rid of that game and play at a Villanova or even Yukon since they are so bad, if that means we get them to the arena?
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Teams like Western Kentucky, Southern Illinois and others have used their football teams as bargaining chip
The issue for UD I think is that outside Villanova the FCS (1AA) schools aren't great at basketball.
Definitely an idea worth considering but scanning over the FCS conferences I don't see many consistently good basketball programs
I've seen ESPN and others mention the success of VCU, Gonzaga,
Xavier, etc is that they don't have scholarship football