2008 Woodie Awards
Central/Western game returns to weekend
Faculty to get say in athletic contracts
By: Tm Ottusch
Issue date: 2/27/08 Section: News
When the current contract was signed with ESPN in 2003, the faculty athletic representatives were not consulted before the deal was signed.
"The deal was presented to the joint committee long after it was done," said James Ruebel, faculty athletic representative for Ball State. "There was no input to the decision from the faculty perspective. And the faculty athletic reps had a largely negative response to the fact that there would be a lot of midweek games in November."
The contract runs through 2009 with an option for 2010.
Heeke said the MAC will discuss the option for 2010 during the 2009 season.
Love said after CMU came out with the statement, the athletics department did a missed class analysis of all its sports to see if football players missed more class than other sports. The results showed that football players missed far less class than most sports.
He said, however, football games have more of an impact on the entire campus, not just on the student athletes.
"Football games - home football games bring in so many fans," Love said. "What other sport on our campus brings in 20,000 people? We just don't have one. It has a significantly greater impact on our campus culture, especially on the weekends. We have a lot of events scheduled around those (games)."
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"The deal was presented to the joint committee long after it was done," said James Ruebel, faculty athletic representative for Ball State. "There was no input to the decision from the faculty perspective. And the faculty athletic reps had a largely negative response to the fact that there would be a lot of midweek games in November."
The contract runs through 2009 with an option for 2010.
Heeke said the MAC will discuss the option for 2010 during the 2009 season.
Love said after CMU came out with the statement, the athletics department did a missed class analysis of all its sports to see if football players missed more class than other sports. The results showed that football players missed far less class than most sports.
He said, however, football games have more of an impact on the entire campus, not just on the student athletes.
"Football games - home football games bring in so many fans," Love said. "What other sport on our campus brings in 20,000 people? We just don't have one. It has a significantly greater impact on our campus culture, especially on the weekends. We have a lot of events scheduled around those (games)."
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Bubba Hester
posted 2/27/08 @ 9:11 AM EST
I agree totally, the CMU/WMU football should have never been played on weeknight. This game is better suited for a saturday afternoon game. Although the game may not get the national tv exposure, but at least the stadiums will be packed and energized with fans. (Continued…)
michmediaperson
posted 2/27/08 @ 6:52 PM EST
Now that the faculty wants to run the athletic department, will the athletic department get to stop all the liberal guest speakers who come to campus on weeknights and eat up valuable student study and classroom time?
Will the Athletic Department be allowed to stop the numerous hyphenated-American month activities, everything from special foods to dances to guest speakers?
Seems like if students can't go spend a couple hours on a school night to football game, then they shouldn't be spending time listening to some liberal speaker promote a liberal, political agenda. (Continued…)
Jason Barczy
posted 2/27/08 @ 9:25 PM EST
Waldo Stadium although it may not have been at capacity was still pretty full this past season and the year before at Kelly/Shorts it was full before the weather got really bad. (Continued…)
michmediaperson
posted 2/28/08 @ 7:16 PM EST
Hey you Liberals..
If CMU is encouraging students and student-athletes to attend political propaganda events like multiculturalism, Hyphenated-American month activities, Rushdie political propaganda speeches, Michael Moore, Wes Clark and so on, I see no reason why students and athletes can't spend 3-4 hours on a school night at Kelly-Shorts Stadium with national TV exposure for CMU. (Continued…)
Kyle
Kyle Cessna
posted 2/29/08 @ 7:02 PM EST
Personally, I'm glad they're moving it back to the weekend. Alumni can't make it to Tuesday night games, which allows us to pack the seats a little more. (Continued…)
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