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What a great article by 406 Sports. I know the writer, he used to be the Corvallis, Oregon sports editor and he is one sharp dude. He knows sports and college athletics very well.
I'll always agree that college football is a bonus for most universities. At smaller colleges it takes a lot of work from administration, alums, and coaches. There's not that never-ending money flow like there is at Ohio State. It's much easier to cut sports than add them. I'm still under the contention that for most administrators, they don't want to do the work because they'll receive their six-figure paycheck whether there's football or not. It's a pride thing and most of these athletic directors don't have pride in football.
Dumping football is like dumping your business major because it's not as good as major as an Ivy League Business School. One could do the comparison game all day.
It is crucial that the GNAC starts expanding its football playing members. I would hope the College of Idaho with 24 football scholarships, would consider moving up to division 2. They've done all they can do in NAIA, and as noted in this thread, that would prompt Southern and Eastern Oregon to also contemplate moving up to NCAA division 2.
I've never been to the MSU Billings campus. In my journeys around the West I have done short walks on many schools and the ones who have dropped football, like Chico State, Sonoma State, Hayward, are just like the writer said, full of older, commuter students. If these colleges want to become that, I would suggest moving down to the junior college ranks, eliminating dorms and student life and save money if all you want to offer are night classes to older working students.
* Western Oregon just announced the adding of men's soccer. I don't know what that means for football, but with a three-game home schedule this year and the addition of soccer next year, I'm wondering if they are de-emphasizing the sport. The often-silent WOU administration isn't always really good about communicating their goals and priorities. They recently dumped a major fundraising arm of athletics, Wolves club, for no reason. The message sent is their scaling back not ramping up.
I'll always agree that college football is a bonus for most universities. At smaller colleges it takes a lot of work from administration, alums, and coaches. There's not that never-ending money flow like there is at Ohio State. It's much easier to cut sports than add them. I'm still under the contention that for most administrators, they don't want to do the work because they'll receive their six-figure paycheck whether there's football or not. It's a pride thing and most of these athletic directors don't have pride in football.
Dumping football is like dumping your business major because it's not as good as major as an Ivy League Business School. One could do the comparison game all day.
It is crucial that the GNAC starts expanding its football playing members. I would hope the College of Idaho with 24 football scholarships, would consider moving up to division 2. They've done all they can do in NAIA, and as noted in this thread, that would prompt Southern and Eastern Oregon to also contemplate moving up to NCAA division 2.
I've never been to the MSU Billings campus. In my journeys around the West I have done short walks on many schools and the ones who have dropped football, like Chico State, Sonoma State, Hayward, are just like the writer said, full of older, commuter students. If these colleges want to become that, I would suggest moving down to the junior college ranks, eliminating dorms and student life and save money if all you want to offer are night classes to older working students.
* Western Oregon just announced the adding of men's soccer. I don't know what that means for football, but with a three-game home schedule this year and the addition of soccer next year, I'm wondering if they are de-emphasizing the sport. The often-silent WOU administration isn't always really good about communicating their goals and priorities. They recently dumped a major fundraising arm of athletics, Wolves club, for no reason. The message sent is their scaling back not ramping up.
TSULL,
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