Mississippi College changing name, dropping football

[SW_Mustang]

Mississippi College will now be known as Mississippi Christian University and will be dropping football.

I'll share a link in a bit.

[SW_Mustang]

Mississippi College is changing its name and dropping the football program

[Argonut]

Another one jumps over the enrollment cliff.

[CalifOKRA]

If I were the remaining football playing GSC teams, I would be looking for a new conference.

[cwfenn]

If I were the remaining football playing GSC teams, I would be looking for a new conference.

Conference Carolinas - Southeastern Division?

[CalifOKRA]

Conference Carolinas - Southeastern Division?

Delta State would fit well with the GAC. However, I'm not sure the GAC would want Delta State.

[ctrabs74]

Unless my math is off, that's four remaining football schools in the GSC: Delta State, Valdosta, West Alabama and West Florida. This might be a problem in a couple of years...

Statement from GSC below:

https://gscsports.org/news/2024/11/1...-football.aspx

[Eagle74]

My friend over at UNC Pembroke just informed me that with this new development, they will need to fill a date in both 2025 and 2026 with the games they had scheduled against Mississippi College. I'm pretty sure that a GSC team will jump on those openings.

[Finchwidget]

Seems like even the team was caught off guard by the news

https://www.clarionledger.com/story/...t/76412312007/

[Argonut]

In a coming decade of declining numbers of college students the school decides to further limit its marketing to only Christian college students in an era of declining numbers of Christians in general and especially college age Christians. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. I thought colleges had smart people running things who had access to this type of demographic data. I guess not. Sorry to see them fold up their tent and go home.

[SW_Mustang]

Seems like even the team was caught off guard by the news

https://www.clarionledger.com/story/...t/76412312007/

I saw some chatter on Twitter - sounds like MC is being quite vague about their commitment to players wishing to continue their education there.

Seems like a bad situation all around.

[getnastyblazers]

If I were the remaining football playing GSC teams, I would be looking for a new conference.

At this point I think everyone has to as there doesn’t seem to be any good options for adding schools.

[getnastyblazers]

Watching this conference wither away has been depressing.

[boyblue]

In a coming decade of declining numbers of college students the school decides to further limit its marketing to only Christian college students in an era of declining numbers of Christians in general and especially college age Christians. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. I thought colleges had smart people running things who had access to this type of demographic data. I guess not. Sorry to see them fold up their tent and go home.

MC has always been a Christian university. Now having achieved university status, I believe the name change allows them to keep their logo & stuff, instead of MC standing for Mississippi College it now stands for Mississippi Christian.

[AlexTheHAMMER]

I know football isn't the biggest drag on an institutional budget but it is one of the larger ones. Would one rather have the school drop football now or have the school close alltogether in 10-15 years because of financial difficulties? One of the harder questions to face if you are a small school like MC