<p>It’s too bad it has to be that expensive. Maybe if there could just be some football for kids who still wanted to play on Saturday for the fun of being on a team? I know that camaraderie can be great, but I’m sure we will see a lot of things that cost money like this, without a commensurate reward, going the way of the buggywhip. </p>
<p>As a Northwestern alum, I wish they’d so the same.</p>
<p>Figure in cost of the coaches, trainers, insurance for the players, field maintenance, equipment, transportation and athletic scholarships. I am sure there is more I forgot about.</p>
<p>There’s more to the story than simply disinterest in the team. I think that NEU being in a urban area brings more obstacles, logistically. The newsstory indicated that neighbors of NEU were strongly opposed to the idea of constructing a new stadium in the campus neighborhood. Apparently the current stadium is miles away in Brookline. Urban schools get flak all the time from their neighbors. Ask NYU and Columbia in New York, or ask U of Washington in Seattle. Even Duke’s relationship with the immediate neighborhood in Durham NC is not great.</p>
<p>And sure, there are a lot of students who really do not care for sports on campus at LACs and at many schools north of Mason’s and Dixon’s Line. But as another poster said, for many others, the games/matches of the school team can be a memorable part of an overall great undergraduate experience.</p>
<p>poetgrl, there is football for kids who want the fun of being on a team through intramural sports…
The urban area definitely brings more obstacles. NEU has programs and tries to be a “good neighbor” and on the other hand, a lot of the crime on campus is the result of non students, particularly theft and shoplifting.</p>
<p>ebeee got it right–hockey is king in Boston!</p>
<p>I’m a master’s student there, and it makes me a little sad. Not because I care about college football, but because I think that lots of sports opportunities of various levels for students is a good thing, and it’s a shame to see one go away. I’m sad for the players - a sports team tends to be a significant thing in the life of a team member, something that means a lot, and now it has gone away.</p>
<p>It seems like part of the issue was that NEU wanted a really <em>good</em> football team, with a shiny new stadium, and all that, and they just couldn’t support it (and, in the case of the new facilities, they couldn’t get neighborhood support for it). I admit, coming from MIT, my instinctive reaction is “Why do they need the football team to be good and play in an expensive new stadium? Why can’t they just have a football team, that maybe won’t break the bank, so that the students can play?”</p>
<p>I remember BU dropping it. The reaction? Yawn.</p>
<p>If you NEU students want to watch football, they could always take the T to Boston College which has a huge stadium for at-home games.</p>
<p>BCEagle, are NEU students free to attend the Boston College stadium and root for the visiting team if they so choose? I don’t think I would take on that proposition if I were an NEU undergrad, or a Yankees fan!</p>
<p>Well, I guess the best approach would be to adopt the team as your own.</p>
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<p>At first glance I thought you meant Bradley U (my alma mater) not Boston U. We do love our basketball, though.</p>
<p>It’s a good thing. Football is over-rated; it drains money away from other sports and destroys the bodies of its participants. Shouldn’t a sport be a LIFETIME sport?</p>
<p>Er…ah…Whiteagle; um, no!!! Football at the D1 level FUNDS other, i.e. non-revenue, sports.</p>
<p>Yes, but it’s a shady deal. They set up special classes for those football players.</p>
<p>Football may be the most expensive, but that doesn’t change the fact that the vast majority of college sports actually lose money. Therefore, if makiing money or breaking even becomes the only threshold, then that will be the end of virtually all programs at most schools.</p>
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<p>Not at Northeastern. Not at many schools. At averaging 1600 spectators per game, football wasn’t even coming close to funding itself, much less any other sports.</p>
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<p>It is sad that someone would heckle a coach and take football so seriously as opposed to just enjoying the game and a nice fall day!</p>
<p>I send taking the T to Boston College games!</p>
<p>[Hofstra</a> Pride of Football Championship Subdivision dropping its football program - ESPN](<a href=“Liverpool's Ben Doak ruled out of Scotland Euro 2024 squad - ESPN”>Hofstra Pride of Football Championship Subdivision dropping its football program - ESPN)</p>
<p>Another school in the CAA drops football…</p>
<p>What, Hofstra wasn’t getting enough donations from their most famous alum, Wayne Chrebet of the New York Jets Football team?</p>
<p>Tough for the CAA, but logistically it becomes much more of a mid-Atlantic conference again. If Georgia State drops out, even better.</p>