But, whether it happens or doesn't happen, we need to be working to make these divisions viable. I go back to a statement I made in Nashville in January. It needs to be the basis that you need to think about -it's very important that each institution take a look at its athletic program and make sure that that program fits philosophically with your institution. Secondly, that it fits financially with what your resources are. A lot of our problems in intercollegiate athletics today are because we aspire to be something that we can't be.
Enrollment becomes so very important.
Many times we make decisions to do things athletically that really don't fit philosophically with what our institutions are all about. And more importantly, they just don't fit financially. So, philosophy and budget as it applies to your institution needs to be the basis for everything that you do. If somehow we could convince everyone in intercollegiate athletics, regardless of division, that that's how the game works, we would find that our problems would be less. We would be able to survive and do the things that we want to do in a much more orderly fashion, and we would all be much better off financially.