CUSA - Press Conference

[Udforever1]

Chrissi states in press conference that UD can move to 85 scholarships now, but will not field more than 63 scholarships when playing CAA teams next year per agreement with the CAA. Defered to her underlings on how that will work.

Assanis states total athletic budget will increase in the 10% range to ~$50M.

As posted in another thread, $3.5M of $6M transition/exit fees already raised.

Yeah don’t love that. Would much rather play an independent year, even if it’s against mainly FCS schools, than have an agreement in place of how many scholarship guys we can use.

[Sally in RI]

It sounded like the leak prompted the announcement. I wonder when it would have happened without it.

Sally in RI

[93BlueHen]

Chrissi states in press conference that UD can move to 85 scholarships now, but will not field more than 63 scholarships when playing CAA teams next year per agreement with the CAA. Defered to her underlings on how that will work.

Yeah, that’s a really strange arrangement. Seems they have a lot to work out on that.

Our AD said they’re gettting a lot of calls showing interest in scheduling football.

Perhaps we still pay 85 schollies, but only dress 63 of them plus walk-ons on CAA game days in 2024?

[Udforever1]

Chrissi states in press conference that UD can move to 85 scholarships now, but will not field more than 63 scholarships when playing CAA teams next year per agreement with the CAA. Defered to her underlings on how that will work.

Yeah, that’s a really strange arrangement. Seems they have a lot to work out on that.

Our AD said they’re gettting a lot of calls showing interest in scheduling football.

Perhaps we still pay 85 schollies, but only dress 63 of them plus walk-ons on CAA game days in 2024?

That’s what it sounded like.

[UDHoops]

Rotate around the young guys and keep them all at 4 games or under to maintain the eligibility heading into FBS/C-USA play in 2025.

[93BlueHen]

I really like that Assanis is not afraid, even jokingly, to discuss gameday experiences at Penn State and Michigan and potential much larger stadium expansion. This lack of dreaming and aspiration by people like Edgar Johnson is the reason we're not, at the very least, an AAC team now, and like our immediate neighbors Maryland and Rutgers, something even bigger. But at least we've begun climbing that mountain. Finally took someone with some cojones.

[Cluck U]

Chrissi states in press conference that UD can move to 85 scholarships now, but will not field more than 63 scholarships when playing CAA teams next year per agreement with the CAA. Defered to her underlings on how that will work.

Yeah, that’s a really strange arrangement. Seems they have a lot to work out on that.

Our AD said they’re gettting a lot of calls showing interest in scheduling football.

Hope that phone is ringing off the hook. Hello Army. Hello many others…including home games!

[Udforever1]

I really like that Assanis is not afraid, even jokingly, to discuss gameday experiences at Penn State and Michigan and potential much larger stadium expansion. This lack of dreaming and aspiration by people like Edgar Johnson is the reason we're not, at the very least, an AAC team now, and like our immediate neighbors Maryland and Rutgers, something even bigger. But at least we've begun climbing that mountain. Finally took someone with some cojones.

Agree 93. Said he had three goals when he got here. A med school, 5 million square feet on Star campus and FBS football. The fact that we have a President who has an athletic goal as one of his main goals for the university as a whole is such a welcoming change.

[Caribbean Hen]

I really like that Assanis is not afraid, even jokingly, to discuss gameday experiences at Penn State and Michigan and potential much larger stadium expansion. This lack of dreaming and aspiration by people like Edgar Johnson is the reason we're not, at the very least, an AAC team now, and like our immediate neighbors Maryland and Rutgers, something even bigger. But at least we've begun climbing that mountain. Finally took someone with some cojones.

Agree 93. Said he had three goals when he got here. A med school, 5 million square feet on Star campus and FBS football. The fact that we have a President who has an athletic goal as one of his main goals for the university as a whole is such a welcoming change.

Polar opposite from what this whack job said 9 years ago
.

HARKER: So how would we do this? So think about this, right. So we make them employees. That means not only for the football and basketball players, but with Title IX, we have to do that with all our student athletes. Now our costs have gone up dramatically. How can we afford to keep doing this? We would just drop sports.

And I'll tell you what we would do at the University of Delaware. Most likely we would drop all our varsity sports down to club status because we simply could not afford to provide varsity athletics.

[93BlueHen]

I really like that Assanis is not afraid, even jokingly, to discuss gameday experiences at Penn State and Michigan and potential much larger stadium expansion. This lack of dreaming and aspiration by people like Edgar Johnson is the reason we're not, at the very least, an AAC team now, and like our immediate neighbors Maryland and Rutgers, something even bigger. But at least we've begun climbing that mountain. Finally took someone with some cojones.

Agree 93. Said he had three goals when he got here. A med school, 5 million square feet on Star campus and FBS football. The fact that we have a President who has an athletic goal as one of his main goals for the university as a whole is such a welcoming change.

Polar opposite from what this whack job said 9 years ago
.

HARKER: So how would we do this? So think about this, right. So we make them employees. That means not only for the football and basketball players, but with Title IX, we have to do that with all our student athletes. Now our costs have gone up dramatically. How can we afford to keep doing this? We would just drop sports.

And I'll tell you what we would do at the University of Delaware. Most likely we would drop all our varsity sports down to club status because we simply could not afford to provide varsity athletics.

We can all sleep better at night knowing that bright mind is currently driving our federal banking policy.

[Udforever1]

I really like that Assanis is not afraid, even jokingly, to discuss gameday experiences at Penn State and Michigan and potential much larger stadium expansion. This lack of dreaming and aspiration by people like Edgar Johnson is the reason we're not, at the very least, an AAC team now, and like our immediate neighbors Maryland and Rutgers, something even bigger. But at least we've begun climbing that mountain. Finally took someone with some cojones.

Agree 93. Said he had three goals when he got here. A med school, 5 million square feet on Star campus and FBS football. The fact that we have a President who has an athletic goal as one of his main goals for the university as a whole is such a welcoming change.

Polar opposite from what this whack job said 9 years ago
.

HARKER: So how would we do this? So think about this, right. So we make them employees. That means not only for the football and basketball players, but with Title IX, we have to do that with all our student athletes. Now our costs have gone up dramatically. How can we afford to keep doing this? We would just drop sports.

And I'll tell you what we would do at the University of Delaware. Most likely we would drop all our varsity sports down to club status because we simply could not afford to provide varsity athletics.

Good find Carib. Those quotes make me want to throw up.

[Cluck U]

Agree 93. Said he had three goals when he got here. A med school, 5 million square feet on Star campus and FBS football. The fact that we have a President who has an athletic goal as one of his main goals for the university as a whole is such a welcoming change.

Polar opposite from what this whack job said 9 years ago
.

HARKER: So how would we do this? So think about this, right. So we make them employees. That means not only for the football and basketball players, but with Title IX, we have to do that with all our student athletes. Now our costs have gone up dramatically. How can we afford to keep doing this? We would just drop sports.

And I'll tell you what we would do at the University of Delaware. Most likely we would drop all our varsity sports down to club status because we simply could not afford to provide varsity athletics.

We can all sleep better at night knowing that bright mind is currently driving our federal banking policy.

Scary.

I will never forget Harker (we were at a Fed sponsored meeting) leaving our table when I mentioned Keeler. Dude just got upset and left…didn’t even take his drink. Never came back. His body guards (yup, we pay for that) were wondering what the heck happened.

Happy that guy is gone. He came to Delaware and spoke to the Huddles group in his first week or so. Faculty members were upset that he talked to football folks before meeting with them as a group. Everyone at the football meeting was excited and he talked about football in a positive tone. Effing farce…he tried to kill our program in every way imaginable.

[NCSTATEHENS09]

Polar opposite from what this whack job said 9 years ago
.

HARKER: So how would we do this? So think about this, right. So we make them employees. That means not only for the football and basketball players, but with Title IX, we have to do that with all our student athletes. Now our costs have gone up dramatically. How can we afford to keep doing this? We would just drop sports.

And I'll tell you what we would do at the University of Delaware. Most likely we would drop all our varsity sports down to club status because we simply could not afford to provide varsity athletics.

We can all sleep better at night knowing that bright mind is currently driving our federal banking policy.

Scary.

I will never forget Harker (we were at a Fed sponsored meeting) leaving our table when I mentioned Keeler. Dude just got upset and left…didn’t even take his drink. Never came back. His body guards (yup, we pay for that) were wondering what the heck happened.

Happy that guy is gone. He came to Delaware and spoke to the Huddles group in his first week or so. Faculty members were upset that he talked to football folks before meeting with them as a group. Everyone at the football meeting was excited and he talked about football in a positive tone. Effing farce…he tried to kill our program in every way imaginable.

Seems like his biggest accomplishment for athletics was getting us to play Del State so we weren't so racist anymore. What a clown. Thank the heavens for dreamers like Rawak!

[hensfan40yrs]

The promotion video was very good.

https://youtu.be/GWHmK4ykM_A?feature=shared

Agree, Good to see the East stands Section J represented with our buddy "Peckerhead" the trumpeter getting a full camera shot in the video. A Lafayette fan took a group picture of us with him at our seats shortly after the game ended Saturday.

That was very good, now let’s get rid of Woody Wood Pecker and put Dick the Chicken everywhere

Agree, AKC needs to come back!

[dchen]

Agree 93. Said he had three goals when he got here. A med school, 5 million square feet on Star campus and FBS football. The fact that we have a President who has an athletic goal as one of his main goals for the university as a whole is such a welcoming change.

Polar opposite from what this whack job said 9 years ago
.

HARKER: So how would we do this? So think about this, right. So we make them employees. That means not only for the football and basketball players, but with Title IX, we have to do that with all our student athletes. Now our costs have gone up dramatically. How can we afford to keep doing this? We would just drop sports.

And I'll tell you what we would do at the University of Delaware. Most likely we would drop all our varsity sports down to club status because we simply could not afford to provide varsity athletics.

We can all sleep better at night knowing that bright mind is currently driving our federal banking policy.

Not to worry about that. A regional federal reserve bank president is mostly a cheer leader for the local economy.