Deficits and struggling attendance could be the end of the Hawaii Warriors football program.
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Having won just four games in the last two seasons, Hawaii is struggling to put fans in the seats for their football games. With a 50,000-seat stadium, Hawaii only sold 15,568 season tickets since July this year.
Now, they could be in danger of losing the program altogether, according to a report from Yahoo Sports.
Hawaii has a deficit in the area of $1.5 million to $3 million and has faced a deficit in 11 of the past 13 years. With bad attendance for a bad team, the football program is failing to bring in revenue for the program.
With a losing team and even worse attendance, it’s hard for the Warriors to bring in recruits to their program. When the NCAA went to the power five conferences, the Mountain West was left out in the cold, further making it hard for schools like Hawaii to attract talent.
Getting rid of the football program could also be costly for the Warriors, and the lack of revenue from having no football games could make it hard to erase the deficit. While it costs a good chunk of money to operate football program, if the Warriors could win, it would help eliminate the deficit.
The program is in a tough dilemma; win to stay afloat, but at the same time it’s hard to get recruits with empty stadiums and losing teams.
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