Malone Drops Football -Immediately

[GLIAC Fan]

Very sad to see this and the timing is awful too. The coach was a good guy and even though they didn't win much this program handled themselves with class.

https://www.cantonrep.com/news/20190...-restructuring

[unc4life]

Re: Malone Drops Football -Immediately

This is not a surprise. Rumors have been going around for years about them moving down to D3. Honestly Malone should have stayed in the NAIA.

[UFOILERFAN]

Re: Malone Drops Football -Immediately

Very sad to see this and the timing is awful too. The coach was a good guy and even though they didn't win much this program handled themselves with class.

https://www.cantonrep.com/news/20190...-restructuring

Well, that sucks. Hope the coaches and players can find other places to go if they wish.

[Redwing]

Re: Malone Drops Football -Immediately

Never good news. No easy way to rip the band-aid off either. Hoping for the best to all those impacted.

[BlueBlood]

Re: Malone Drops Football -Immediately

Sad day.

Also, this clearly bucks the trend where small schools are adding/maintaining football as an enrollment and tuition driver. In the press release, Malone states that dropping football will eliminate expenses of approximately $1 million annually. They don't say how much tuition/income they will lose. Per Dept of Education, Malone has 116 football players, which is approximately 10% of the school's 1135 full-time undergraduates.

[unc4life]

Re: Malone Drops Football -Immediately

Findlay has a week 10 opening now, so does Ashland. Make it happen.

[UFOILERFAN]

Re: Malone Drops Football -Immediately

Findlay has a week 10 opening now, so does Ashland. Make it happen.

Yes, works for me.

[oilerftbll]

[boatcapt]

Re: Malone Drops Football -Immediately

It would be interesting to see how Malone came up with the million dollar savings. Dont think this number factors in the tuition/R&B loss from 116 players no lomger enrolling.

Seems like whenever a school adds or drops football, the math get a little fuzzy.

[UFOILERFAN]

Re: Malone Drops Football -Immediately

It would be interesting to see how Malone came up with the million dollar savings. Dont think this number factors in the tuition/R&B loss from 116 players no lomger enrolling.

Seems like whenever a school adds or drops football, the math get a little fuzzy.

Agree, football is always the target then they make up the math to justify the decision. I'm a little surprised that Lake Erie hasn't done the same thing.

[unc4life]

Re: Malone Drops Football -Immediately

It would be interesting to see how Malone came up with the million dollar savings. Dont think this number factors in the tuition/R&B loss from 116 players no lomger enrolling.

Seems like whenever a school adds or drops football, the math get a little fuzzy.

[dodger]

Re: Malone Drops Football -Immediately

I'm not sure some of these schools wouldn't be open without the students that football brings to campus.

[Dozsa2]

Re: Malone Drops Football -Immediately

Lake Erie and Urbana have to be thinking about it. Not sure how some of these schools are even open let alone have a football team.

What's the future for Walsh football? I don't pretend to be an expert on all things GMAC but it always seemed to me those schools had a lot in common: private, same town, same stadium, same struggles in D2 football.

[BlueBlood]

Re: Malone Drops Football -Immediately

I'm not sure some of these schools wouldn't be open without the students that football brings to campus.

[BlueBlood]