Bowling Green and ourselves already have 22 sports, so we already have more sports than anybody else. We need to solve some gender equity issues, so the addition of any men s sports is unlikely at this point. The programs we do have, we want to get up and running at a very high level before we add any more to it. We have an obligation to the existing sports and the student athletes who are representing this university, to give them what we can, and we can t do that by splitting up our resources. The hockey people probably won t take any comfort by knowing I was a hockey player, and I love the sport.
Football is the main sport, the most visible one.
Well, repositioning the schedule, I think will help. And clearly, the new philosophy will allow us to play at home more frequently and will allow us to enter the season with more likelihood of competitive success. And then we need to do the things to support the program, give the student athlete the tools and services to work with, so that we can become a championship level team in the Mid-American Conference. And, we don t want to build a team, we want to build a program, a program year in, and year out, is right there. I ve never known losing football.