Hofstra drops football program

You just described every women's basketball/volleyball/softball/track&field program in the country. Should they be dropped as well?

 

That only works if they couldn't fill those 40 spots otherwise. I could be wrong, but I thought colleges were having no problems filling spots these days.

 

"The He-Man woman-haters club is in full bloom!!!!!!" [/whiners who took their ball and ran home]

 

Elon doesn't draw flies, really. When App played there a couple weeks ago, there were 13,000 and change. All but 5,000, maybe 6,000 were wearing black and gold.

 

He also described most men's soccer, track, wrestling, swimming, gymnastics and lacrosse programs.
By the way, I know Hofstra is very good at lacrosse. Does it make any money with it?

 

I was wondering when someone would toss out a Bill Cosby reference. Well done.

 

Dropping football would kill a number of NAIA and D-III schools. A large number of those schools use football as an excuse to recruit 100 kids that wouldn't otherwise go there. In D-III, they all pay tuition (or use other types of scholarships). In NAIA, most pay tuition. At a school of 1,000, that's 10 percent of your students. Drop other sports and you lose as much as 50 percent.

 

I think he meant getting to the Va. schools would be a two-flight trip for the north schools if a Va school was added to the North Division.

 

Speaking of Fordham, does anyone from SJNY.com think it's possible FU could be looking at ramping up football to the point where they could take a run at Big East membership?

Would Rutgers & St. John's allow it?

 

Fordham's worried now about just getting up to 63 to play full-scholly FCS football. Not sure they're even close to being FBS ready.

 

Exactly. As I said, there's a certain assumed cost with athletics. If you think they're worthwhile, then pay it.


BTW, there are very, very few NCAA men's gymnastics programs anymore.

 

I don't get why it would kill them. St. Xavier U., located within walking distance of my house, was growing like crazy before it became a newfound NAIA football power. What a lot of these schools need to cultivate is not a football program, but students to someday become rich alums who give lots of money back to their puny endowments.