D1 Schools are seriously considering reclassifying out of D1 | Matt Brown

[Lehigh Football Nation]

The University of Maine is the top healthcare provider in the state??? That’s news to me….they don’t even have a medical school. Don’t be looking for UMaine to be “dropping down”. $200+ million in privately funded athletic facilities investments….might want to worry about other schools that don’t have big fish donors.

Looking again the Maine hospital complex in Portland is run by Tufts, Dartmouth and some other schools, my bad. I did see though that the threat of pulling NIH funding would have not only wrecked that, but NIH funding that would have affected a bunch of schools including UMaine (University of New England, Southern Maine). My impression from the Matt Brown scoop was that UMaine was much more affected. It's also on two fronts, the NIH and the USDA.

As it turns out Trump once again needlessly caused chaos and backed off from the preventable crisis that he alone created. But who knows what invented crisis he'll cone up with next that could wreck government funding for your school.