After years of success, the Club Football team of GMU has shown the potential for football at our GMU campus. Along with recent success from our club team, a few developments have occurred that make a team more tasteful:

• Recent Executive Orders are stripping universities from their federal grants and funds. A football team will provide revenue that can be utilized to counteract these cuts.
• Recent collegiate sports success from GMU has put more attention on our school in A-10 Tournaments and NCAA Tournaments.
• Last spring we were given a new logo. This logo was used to modernize GMU and follow trends of other major universities. What better way to advance our logo than on a CFB team that will compete for the playoffs?
• Universities need to constantly evolve with time. A college football team provides revenue to a university that can be used to supplement programs and renovations. The exact number on average is about $8.5 Million dollars in net earnings according to results from Athletic Director U. Gross earnings amount to $21 Million.

There are sure to be some naysayers to the above, so let me approach some common critiques (accusation in italics and response in standard text):

• GMU does not have a stadium and would need to build one. GMU, in fact, already has a stadium, the George Mason Stadium. When one looks at other campuses, not all stadiums are like the Horseshoe of The Ohio State. Rather, D1 teams like Villanova and Columbia have comparable sporting venues as our own. Therefore, all we would need to do is create a D1 team.
• It costs too much. Simply put, colleges make a lot of money from football. According to stats from Athletic Director U, on average, sports have a net income of around 8.5 million per year. We also have from the club team equipment and potential players and staff that can be utilized to inaugurate the new team.
• A-10 is not a football conference. While this is correct, it does not mean we need any major changes to our alignment. One of our conference rivals, the University of Richmond for example, has a football team. For the football season, they have been a member of the Coastal Athletic Association Football Conference along with other schools like William & Mary. Therefore, it is not unfeasible that GMU could join another conference as an associate member for football.

In all, a football team is not a long-shot idea. Rather, it would be a beneficial investment that would grant the students a football team to cheer for while providing a major source of revenue to George Mason University University.