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Post by purplehaze on Oct 7, 2019 11:50:57 GMT -5
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Post by rgs318 on Oct 7, 2019 12:27:02 GMT -5
Great ambition!
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Oct 7, 2019 12:36:24 GMT -5
This is amazing: D-3 to D-1 is quite the move but the school does have over 6,000 students. I'll see if I can find its endowment number
Endowment in 2017= $488MM
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Post by sader1970 on Oct 7, 2019 17:07:56 GMT -5
Uh, really? That would be truly ambitious.
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Post by Crucis#1 on Oct 7, 2019 17:48:58 GMT -5
www.tommiesports.com/sports/fball/indexSt. Thomas has been a juggernaut in D3 football. Similarities to Holy Cross are Colors... Purple, White, Silver for the uniforms, as well as team logo is similar to the HC logo of interlocking initials inside a shield. Would be fun as well as visually confusing to play them on the gridiron. Would be great to get the Holy Cross name into the Minneapolis market. www.tommiesports.com/sports/fball/2017-18/releases/20180221munuxsThe 2017 tommie-johnnie football game drew a record 37,355 for a D3 game at Target Field. Could they possibly be a be a future candidate as an associate member of Patriot League Football?
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Post by rgs318 on Oct 7, 2019 18:34:00 GMT -5
Why not?
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Post by hc87 on Oct 8, 2019 15:36:42 GMT -5
NDSU is in somewhat a similar situation at the FCS level imo.
They have won 7 of the last 8 FCS titles, currently 5-0 and blowing out nearly everyone: at Delaware 47-22, a Top 10 Illinois St 37-3 etc etc
It's an interesting situation...they are somewhat constrained institutionally, geographically, financially etc to join a FBS conference,
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Oct 10, 2019 19:10:49 GMT -5
NDSU is in somewhat a similar situation at the FCS level imo. They have won 7 of the last 8 FCS titles, currently 5-0 and blowing out nearly everyone: at Delaware 47-22, a Top 10 Illinois St 37-3 etc etc It's an interesting situation...they are somewhat constrained institutionally, geographically, financially etc to join a FBS conference, And this was supposed to be a rebuilding year for them... NDSU would probably be FBS by now had they not waited so long to move up from D-II. They were still transitioning into I-AA/FCS when I was at HC. They've won about 2/3 of the national titles since they've been postseason-eligible. Reason they haven't moved up: they are in geographic no-mans-land and not in a big TV market. Mountain West Conference probably the best fit. |
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Post by timholycross on Oct 10, 2019 21:33:42 GMT -5
The only problem is they have a great football team and no definitive conference for that team (all the other sports are all set).
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Oct 10, 2019 23:42:47 GMT -5
And, in yesterday's Times, Div.III Grinnell College canceled the remaining games of the season as per an overwhelming vote by the players. Grinnell was 0-3 having been outscored 114-3 this season. The team is 12-61 in the past 8 years and listed but 38 players on the roster. Some years ago I happened upon a school called Texas College, a tiny HBCU school in Tyler Texas that competes in the NAIA. Its record of futility is quite something as the school regularly loses by 50-60-70 points a game. I have followed the team passively, checking in from time to time, hoping to see that the Steers program had turned around. With under 1,000 students and an endowment of $3.2MM you can imagine the challenge the school faces trying to keep its doors open, never mind competing in football against the likes of Lamar University (9,000 undergrads) that has sent a couple of dozen players to the NFL. The Steers are 0-4 this year and 8-86 since 2010. |
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Post by rgs318 on Oct 11, 2019 6:21:10 GMT -5
Wow, that ism some record of futility. What in their case is positive? I feel there must be something or they would simply disappear.
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