Marquette Football Update

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

On a similar note, there were two university related stories locally. 

Fresh off their first NCAA basketball appearance ever, U of Hartford announced plans to drop  from DI to DIII to save money.  There are some pissed off people.

Simultaneously, U of New Haven is building additional sports facilities on campus with the intent to go from DII to DI.  Their football team would play FCS, not FBS.

[Herman Cain]

On a similar note, there were two university related stories locally. 

Fresh off their first NCAA basketball appearance ever, U of Hartford announced plans to drop  from DI to DIII to save money.  There are some pissed off people.

Simultaneously, U of New Haven is building additional sports facilities on campus with the intent to go from DII to DI.  Their football team would play FCS, not FBS.

Traci Carter got the Hawks to the NCAA and then they drop the program.

I think there should be more waivers available for schools to play D1 in certain sports and D3 in others.

[JWags85]

Traci Carter got the Hawks to the NCAA and then they drop the program.

I think there should be more waivers available for schools to play D1 in certain sports and D3 in others.

There are plenty.  You just can’t play the big money making sports (basketball or football) or baseball/soccer where there are already hundreds of member schools.  They can do it in hockey or lacrosse

[warriorchick]

Maybe if they did FCS football and played in the Spring....that'd fill a niche

What niche is that?

[The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole]

On a similar note, there were two university related stories locally. 

Fresh off their first NCAA basketball appearance ever, U of Hartford announced plans to drop  from DI to DIII to save money.  There are some pissed off people.

Simultaneously, U of New Haven is building additional sports facilities on campus with the intent to go from DII to DI.  Their football team would play FCS, not FBS.

The Hartford example is going to be interesting.  It seems like there are a lot of these private schools in the northeast that in these one bid leagues.  If they don't help you with student recruitment, then they are just cost drains.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

The Hartford example is going to be interesting.  It seems like there are a lot of these private schools in the northeast that in these one bid leagues.  If they don't help you with student recruitment, then they are just cost drains.

There was another article this morning noting a few other things.
The girls softball team was playing their final regular season game and they all taped over "Hartford" with black tape.
The biggest $ donors have already gone on record saying they won't donate another cent to the school.  Includes some wealthy alumni businessmen (largest donor by far) and athletes (pro golfer, Tim Petrovic among others.)
'The study" was a sham.  It supposedly said the school would save like $12 mil a year but it blatantly double dipped to get that amount and economists who looked at ​it said you can't do that and maybe saves $900k which makes it not worth it.  Also noted the study ignored effect on donations and applications.
2 weeks ago some students took screenshots during a class on Zoom when a professor accidentally shared an email from the President who more or less said he was doing this
The 20+ universities that have closed for good recently were all DIII schools

[cheebs09]

College football is stupid.

Pro football is awesome

That’s where I’m at too. Lack of football at MU wasn’t too much of an impact to me.

[The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole]

The 20+ universities that have closed for good recently were all DIII schools

Right, but that's because they were small and in financial distress already.  It wasn't lack of D1 sports that was the problem.

[4everwarriors]

Even if it was from the bad years in the 1950s, is there any game footage anywhere? Even just highlights?

You have to think the Libraries would have something.

Just ax '62, he wuz der, hey?