Edited sentence: By not having a football team, UC Irvine, is missing out on many opportunities to raise money for the rest of the school.Football brings people together, makes them proud to be an Anteater, however, this pride of being an anteater is non-existent on the UC Irvine Campus.It will forever be every student's second or third choice of school to go to unless this is changed.The absence of the football team leads to a lack of school spirit as a whole on campus.The diverse number of athletic programs that benefit from the funds required to support a football team are not sports that create support for the school.UC Irvine, is a rising school and a very prestigious school academically, however, without a football team, they will never rise to the ranks of prominence of schools like UCLA or UC Berkeley