Excitement Level for Football on a 1-10?

[Jarius]

I am in the very small minority where I wish we put more focus on basketball. It is going to be nearly impossible to compete with how NIL and the portal are combined with the limited amount of donations we get. Basketball is an area though we can put a lot of that focus and still be nationally relevant and be in a position to make noise in March madness. While it might not be as big as football it gets 100 times more national attention than baseball. We ruined our ability to surpass Ole Miss when they were on probation and we didn’t hire Kyle Whittingham when he was interested in our job. Had we just done that our program would be in an entirely different state right now and we would be up there with ole Miss competing at the top of the SEC instead of being near Vandy level now. People didn’t do their easy homework in just researching what a fraud Moorhead was and that has still impacted us to this day

Investing in men’s basketball is very smart and we have done that very well. We waste a ton of money on women’s basketball and that should change dramatically. We need every ounce of budget we have and losing the type of money we do on women’s basketball costs us in football and men’s basketball. If we cut the amount of losses in revenue in half for women’s basketball over the past decade we would have been able to fund about a big chunk of the south end zone enclosure that needs to happen without asking a donor for a dime.