http://blog.mlive.com/higher-educati..._universi.html
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Consultant recommends University of Michigan-Flint launch a seven-sport varsity program starting with basketball
Posted by Beata Mostafavi| Flint Journal June 26, 2009 16:15PM
Categories: Flint - News
FLINT, Michigan -- The University of Michigan-Flint could roll out a seven-sport varsity athletics program starting with men's and women's basketball, according to a consultant's feasibility report released Friday.
Next would be soccer, then baseball and softball and women's cross country, consultant Alden & Associates recommended in the report.
But launching such programs on campus for the first time could still be a couple of years away -- and the university would have to find a way to fund an annual estimated cost of $528,000 for all seven sports.
"The answer was yes, you can do varsity sports," said David Lossing, UM-Flint's director of government relations who led a commission that explored the idea of sports at UM-Flint.
"It would be a huge undertaking. You get one chance to do it right. We are the University of Michigan so we will do it the Michigan way and that might take a couple of years."
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UM-Flint is the only public university (and one of the only four-year schools) in the state without an athletics program , so I'd say it's about time to start. Especially basketball - how can a city with such a storied basketball tradition not have a basketball team at its major university?
There is an club football team starting in the fall, so maybe we could see a varsity football team in the near future, too??