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I've written about this on other boards. This is a non-seismic issue. They are looking at bringing back football to the PFL level so they can combat a 21% disparity in F/M endowment and a nearly 7% decline in overall undergraduate reduction, which has led to a minimum of $10million in lost revenue. As a private school with a loose admission policy and an enrollment of only $260ish million, losing 10 million per annum in revenue is a big deal. Another poster added that overall, the State of Ohio has an 11% reduction in high school seniors and that will add to Xavier's pain.
Getting back at least $4 million in revenue with an average cost of tuition at $35k per annum, which is after aid is dispersed, over 125 males...is a big deal.
That's all this move is about.
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Xavier isn't alone in lacking male students. Ohio isn't alone in a dwindling high school graduate pool.
If every school makes the same decision, every single high school football player is going to be guaranteed a spot playing in college.
Ah they will be so happy to join! And then cry when Washington and Oregon bail within 5 years. Along with everyone else trying leave when they do.
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Be interesting to see where the two leagues go from there.
We (me included!) have endlessly abused UConn football as a subtext of this entire thread, but need to give credit where it has been earned. UConn is now 6-5 after dropping Liberty (whose only prior loss was a one-point defeat against Wake Forest) earlier today. I didn't think I'd see UConn sniff .500 in the FBS again in my lifetime.
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UConn still isn't a good team, but they are well coached.
I feel like somewhere over the past 364 pages this "WAC & ASUN are gonna get together and go 1-A" thing has been discussed, but this appears a bit more formal...
www.espn.com
Sources: ASUN, WAC eye pairing for FBS jump
Members of the Atlantic Sun and WAC have agreed to form the foundation of a 10-member football-only conference with plans to join the FBS, sources told ESPN.
www.espn.com
I guess that depends on the definition of "it." Field a team? Appear as "opponent" against a P5 team three times per year? Sure. It's a lot of money to spend to do so, but I suppose it is metaphysically possible.
Have any chance to be legitmately competitive in the division as a whole? Absolutely not. At which point, why are we doing this? G5 schools lose money on football, too, even with playoff payouts. This league is unlikely to get a playoff share. No team from this league is ever going to qualify for the playoffs. What benefit does this have to the schools?
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Oh I agree with pretty much everything you just stated.....but I also think that the CAA is a much better football conference and brand compared to the A-Sun/WAC conglomeration. My statement was more of put down of this type of "moving up" than a....hey, the CAA should do this.
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Of course. We've just reverted to 1977. But whatever problems that led to the creation of I-AA then, are probably even more exaggerated now.
Higher guarantees to be a punching bag for actual FBS teams, since they'll be a counter towards bowl eligibility.
Other than that, I got nothing.
Pretty solid article about FCS to FBS football. We need more blue bloods speaking like this.
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Really good article and touches upon many of the same issues that Albany, Maine, UNH and Bryant are facing now and in the future.
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