Can UC Riverside intercollegiate athletics be saved?

In considering the plight of UC Riverside athletics, and the possibility that the entire program – not just individual teams, or budgets within teams, but the whole thing – might be terminated, here’s a warning: Once it’s gone, it’s gone forever. For clarification, look up anyone who followed UCR football before it was discontinued after the 1975 season.
Here’s another fact: A “more robust” intramural program, described as a potential replacement i