Dear Editor:Regarding the letters we get every year lamenting the loss of ETSU football, I would just like to ask everyone who feels personally injured to shut the hell up.
From 1999-2003 the football program was losing nearly a million dollars a year. You cannot justify that number with any number of arguments about “university pride” especially when that involves the pride of atheletes only and pride in being a bottom feeder.
Without the football drain, we have academic programs like the Honors College shooting off, Quillen is becoming a respected medical school, the university is gaining a reputation for academics.
Why should every student sacrifice obscene amounts of money and possible loss of academic prestige (due to funding reshuffles for athletics) just so people can have football games they can continue to not attend?
-Christopher Thedy
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