Quote Originally Posted by Lehigh Football Nation View Post
Per Matt Brown, it's sort of a combination of House and everything else that is causing the tough conversation.

"For other schools, the House settlement and increased cost structure of D1 athletics is forcing some difficult conversations. For at least one school, Trump/DOE/NIH budget cuts may be the shove off the D1 bridge. There isn't a one-size-fits-all situation here."

I'd say both could be correlated. If a school is nervous about the finances of House (news alert: most of D-I is very concerned) it stands to reason that the loss of federal funds (some reneging on promised money simply not showing up) would also be a huge financial challenge.
The UMaine System just lost $100 million due to that back and forth the Governor had with the President.

Although this is politics, the ramifications will affect quite a few universities. A&T, for example, lost millions in research dollars, pending court appeals. As a result, from what I've learned since starting this thead, some schools will need to make some drastic cost-cutting measures which could include dropping down to D2 or D3 in this era.