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Coming to Pepperdine, the fact we didn’t have a football team never really bothered me. I can count on one hand the number of football games I attended in high school. Not because I didn’t care, but because my school’s team wasn’t that good.
This brings me to my first point as to why Pepperdine does not need a football team; there is no guarantee that we would be any good. And, if we end up not being good, then no one goes to the games anyway and Pepperdine would lose money — a lot of money.