Findlay and Bluffton are Merging

[GLIAC Fan]

Heard on the news this morning that D2 Findlay and D3 Bluffton College are merging. Limited details thus far other than both schools will keep their athletic departments in tact for now.

Always thought Findlay was in a good place financially, evidently not.

[laker]

Heard on the news this morning that D2 Findlay and D3 Bluffton College are merging. Limited details thus far other than both schools will keep their athletic departments in tact for now.

Always thought Findlay was in a good place financially, evidently not.

I read that they might still have Findlay students play D2 and Bluffton play D3. Now that seems weird to me rather than merging the programs.

[crixus]

Findlay Bluffton reminds me of Dunder Mifflin. LOL

[crixus]

Heard on the news this morning that D2 Findlay and D3 Bluffton College are merging. Limited details thus far other than both schools will keep their athletic departments in tact for now.

Always thought Findlay was in a good place financially, evidently not.

Here's the story. https://newsroom.findlay.edu/univers...c-partnership/

[ctrabs74]

Heard on the news this morning that D2 Findlay and D3 Bluffton College are merging. Limited details thus far other than both schools will keep their athletic departments in tact for now.

Always thought Findlay was in a good place financially, evidently not.

Both universities “come to this potential merger from a place of financial stability,” according to the [Lima (Ohio) News].

Take that for what it's worth, but that was the only thing other than regurgitating the press releases that other media outlets have done.

[zimmy21]

So how does the NCAA allow that? Of a school is merging with another. Would it not just be considered one school? Or is this a Boys/Girls College merging?

[WVIAC-F-EVER]

NCAA membership requires a degree to be granted

so as long as Findlay is granting degrees and Bluffton is granting degrees - then two separate institutions

[boatcapt]

So how does the NCAA allow that? Of a school is merging with another. Would it not just be considered one school? Or is this a Boys/Girls College merging?

See the PSAC were six schools merged into two...with six separate athletic programs.

[zimmy21]

See the PSAC were six schools merged into two...with six separate athletic programs.

Interesting to say the least

[Bballfan]

Ultimately it will be one school. Anybody going to Bluffton to play athletics should think twice. It isn't financially viable to maintain two separate colleges or athletic programs. All Findlay really wants is Bluffton's endowement to help bolster their own. Nothing more. Nothing less. Just a matter of time despite what the press release says.

[Northeast01]

I'm an alumni of a school that has both Division I and Division III athletic programs. Fairleigh Dickinson University in NJ. The two programs are based out of different campuses 35 miles apart. D1 Teaneck has the larger student body, more commuter students, and a more urban campus. D3 Florham Park is much smaller, but is more of a traditional liberal arts college, in a exhurban/suburban setting. Both schools share the same colors, but the D1 team is called the Knights and the D3 team is called the Devils. I attended Florham for 3 years and never once set foot on the Teaneck campus. Didn't stop me from celebrating like a madman when they knocked off Purdue in March Madness as a #16 a few years ago though!