A university in UB’s athletic conference is facing pressure from students and faculty to drop its football program to cut costs, but is maintaining it has no plans to do so.
Eastern Michigan University, which plays in the Mid-American Conference with UB, published an open letter on Tuesday that it will keep its football program in Division I after students and faculty published a report calling for it to drop football and move to another conference that does not require D-I football.
Members of the Eastern Michigan Board of Regents, the incoming president and the interim president released the open letter to refute any reports that the program is dropping or disbanding, stating: “Any headline or claims that Eastern is considering dropping football, or reducing the support of the program in any way, are false.