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Post by nycrusader2010 on Mar 31, 2019 15:42:36 GMT -5
No helmet sports (football, hockey, lacrosse). Amazing what that leaves for resources. Villanova doesnt have football or lacrosse either right? If they did theres no way they'd be able to compete for a national championship in Mens basketball.
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Gonzaga
Mar 31, 2019 15:50:00 GMT -5
Post by hchoops on Mar 31, 2019 15:50:00 GMT -5
Nova does indeed have football
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Gonzaga
Mar 31, 2019 16:03:13 GMT -5
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Mar 31, 2019 16:03:13 GMT -5
Nova does indeed have football Unbelievable. Totally destroys the narrative that small Catholic institutions cant possibly sponsor FCS football while maintaining a nationally relevant hoops program.
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Mar 31, 2019 19:53:11 GMT -5
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Post by hcgrad94 on Mar 31, 2019 19:53:11 GMT -5
Agree Nova has done it w FCS football and lacrosse, albeit running lax on the cheap No hockey and the 18 scholarships that go with it. Isn't a nationally relevant school with 5000 or less students doing all 3.
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Mar 31, 2019 20:39:58 GMT -5
Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 31, 2019 20:39:58 GMT -5
Villanova has almost 7,000 undergraduates.
Of Catholic FCS schools, St. Francis has the smallest U/G enrollment Next smallest is HC. All the other Catholic schools in FCS have about twice or more the number of undergraduates as HC.
Sacred Heart -- with nearly twice as many undergrads as HC -- and HC are the only Catholic FCS schools to field teams in M ice hockey, M lacrosse.
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Post by gks on Apr 1, 2019 7:12:14 GMT -5
Villanova has almost 7,000 undergraduates. Of Catholic FCS schools, St. Francis has the smallest U/G enrollment Next smallest is HC. All the other Catholic schools in FCS have about twice or more the number of undergraduates as HC. Sacred Heart -- with nearly twice as many undergrads as HC -- and HC are the only Catholic FCS schools to field teams in M ice hockey, M lacrosse. You can always find a stat to make an excuse for HC athletics...
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Post by rgs318 on Apr 1, 2019 7:27:50 GMT -5
...and you can always call any factual explanation an "excuse" (if it does not support your position).
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Post by joe on Apr 1, 2019 7:52:45 GMT -5
It's a good thing you can only pick 5 students to be on the court at once, and not the whole student body.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Apr 1, 2019 8:40:31 GMT -5
If Villanova could have found a big enough stadium, it wanted to jump to FBS, and join the other OBE FBS schools. But Temple had dibs on the Linc, and Penn wasn't eager to share, so the best 'Nova could do was a soccer stadium in Chester PA. Which didn't cut the mustard. (Villanova doesn't have the land area on Lancaster Pike to expand its high school sized stadium.).
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Apr 1, 2019 21:54:38 GMT -5
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Apr 1, 2019 21:54:38 GMT -5
If Villanova could have found a big enough stadium, it wanted to jump to FBS, and join the other OBE FBS schools. But Temple had dibs on the Linc, and Penn wasn't eager to share, so the best 'Nova could do was a soccer stadium in Chester PA. Which didn't cut the mustard. (Villanova doesn't have the land area on Lancaster Pike to expand its high school sized stadium.). Had Big East football not been raided and terminated by the ACC (Syracuse, Pitt, Louisville) and Big 12 (WVU), Villanova WAS GOING FBS. They are in the right place now. That move wouldve ended up like UMass or UConn, likely worse.
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