Football has about 65 scholarships at the D2 level and more expensive travel costs. Your smaller sports can get 2 games in on a travel weekend so it cuts down on travel costs.
Football probably loses more money than the rest of the sports combined. But I wonder if they’ll lose students over this. Maybe with their base of students they draw from not as much as a secular school would.
Its not going to be 0, but the number of unaffected students that leave over this is going to be low. You'll have some football players leave, some cheerleaders, dancers and band members will leave, but the average non-athlete isn't going to lose sleep over this.
Sounds like all of D3 needs to shutter football. And maybe sports in general.
Sorry, meant D2. What your link was referencing.
My dad taught at MC (his alma mater) for several years after retiring from Hinds, and one day I went to have lunch with him there, and we wound up eating with the college president (this was probably 15 years ago at least). They were still D3 at the time and we talked about the complexities of changing divisions. They had done a study about NCAA classification options for them and the one thing the president said that stuck with me was that for the costs associated with scholarships at the D2 level, they'd actually financially be better off going to FCS because it's not that many more scholarships than D2, and you can get big buy checks from FBS teams to help with the costs.
Yep. They should have played FCS. Play Louisiana Tech and South Alabama every year and you make your budget. That’s why your West Georgia, North Alabama and West Floridas are moving up. Only way to survive.
Don't think the Choctaws were Christian...well, maybe a few were when the Jesuit priests were in the baptizing business. but wait they weren't baptists...Catch 22
Hopefully Draingo, AirSouth and Environment Masters send their entire rosters
The problem is you cant can you? If football is making money and womens basketball isn't, you have to keep womens basketball and add in soccer and gymnastics etc to comply with title IX. Isn't that correct?
Where they "forced" to drop down due to the football scandal in the late 80s? MC certainly has a colorful history, i have several buddies who went there, they all said the same president who preached at chapel was getting hookers for boosters.
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There are nuts and psychos everywhere.Dropping football and changing the name won’t prevent all the weird things that have and does go on there. Amen?
Anyone else remember the exorcism there, the time the two girls beat the holy crap out of this one girl in the name of Jesus?
Every investment portfolio on the planet took a beating in 2008 other than Steve Eisman’s and Michael Burry’s.
Right. This was exacerbated by the market but fundamentally was mismanagement.
Ol' Lewis Nobles liked to party!Fall of College President Stuns Students, Staff
He was, by all accounts, a quiet man, humble, even timid, "an outstanding Christian gentleman" who worked tirelessly on behalf of the small Baptist college he had led for a quarter century.
I agree with you. But a gross misunderstanding, interpretation, and focus of that, can be counterintuitive in many ways. As mentioned, performing bloody exorcisms in dorms and presidents stealing money and using it on hookers and cocaine are not common practice at most colleges.
