Not really sure where else to post this, but I thought it was pretty hilarious.
My undergrad was pretty terribly fiscally mismanaged and faced a situation a few years ago of either closing the doors or dropping to Div III. With a student body of ~850 we should have never been DI in the first place as we gave roughly 1/4 of the student body a full ride, and then compounded the problem by joining the Sunbelt meaning teams had to regularly travel to the Dakotas, Indianapolis and other far-flung locales from Shreveport, LA.
I got a alumni donation request letter from the sports department yesterday, that has some of the most lol spin I've seen in a while:
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Initiated transition from NCAA Division I to Division III - only the second school in the last 20 years to effect such a change