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Eastern Michigan feels pressure to drop out of Division I football

#MACtion might get a little less exciting.

Students and faculty at Eastern Michigan are pleading for the football team to drop out of Division I and find a different league for the rest of its sports, says a report presented to the EMU Board of Regents on Friday.

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"Culturally and geographically, EMU football will simply never succeed from an attendance and financial standpoint," faculty member Howard Bunsis, who helped prepare the report, said in a presentation to the Board of Regents on Friday.