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  "eraOptions": [
    "Before 1999",
    "1999\u20132005",
    "2006\u20132015",
    "2016\u2013present",
    "Not ULM alumni"
  ],
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      "id": "should",
      "title": "What SHOULD ULM do?",
      "options": [
        "Stay FBS",
        "Move to FCS",
        "Division I without football",
        "Diamond + Academics",
        "Move lower than D-I",
        "End intercollegiate athletics",
        "Not enough information"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "will",
      "title": "What do you think ULM WILL do?",
      "options": [
        "Stay FBS",
        "Move to FCS",
        "Division I without football",
        "Diamond + Academics",
        "Move lower than D-I",
        "End intercollegiate athletics",
        "Not enough information"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "deloitte",
      "title": "What do you think DELOITTE will recommend?",
      "options": [
        "Stay largely as-is + cost controls",
        "FCS for some schools",
        "Conference changes",
        "Lower division for some schools",
        "System-wide spending / pay limits",
        "Mixed school-by-school approach",
        "Other"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "cycle": {
    "id": "deloitte-2026",
    "status": "open",
    "freezeAt": null,
    "actualRecommendation": null,
    "reportUrl": null,
    "note": "Publisher can set POLL_FREEZE_AT to an ISO UTC report-release timestamp. Prediction ballots (WILL and DELOITTE) then become immutable; SHOULD remains open. Actual options and report URL can be published through runtime settings."
  }
}