In the NFL, Bill Parcells made popular the edict that "you are what your record says you are."
If The Tuna were speaking about college athletics, maybe he'd adjust the saying to "you are what your budget says you are." Which, likely, would make UNO a Division III athletics department. It's a harsh reality, that UNO is considering downgrading from Division I to Division III, because a downgrade can't be masked. Generally, it signifies failure and the last thing anyone wants is to not meet a set of goals, to fall so far short that the resulting adjustment is viewed as a step (or three) backward.