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Quote from: crufootball on March 26, 2025, 03:15:26 PMYes. I can't recall exactly. Maybe they were going to start as a club team.Quote from: Gray Fox on March 26, 2025, 01:17:57 PMQuote from: AAFES on March 26, 2025, 11:54:48 AMYou can take Dallas out of the consideration for a football startup. It was considered around 2000 and roundly dismissed. Nothing has changed to reverse that thought.They made a good effort. Got guys to sign up, but those same guys didn't show when things got serious. Maybe they start with all guys not already in school.
So they attempted to field a team with students already at Univ of Dallas?
Quote from: AAFES on March 26, 2025, 11:54:48 AMYou can take Dallas out of the consideration for a football startup. It was considered around 2000 and roundly dismissed. Nothing has changed to reverse that thought.They made a good effort. Got guys to sign up, but those same guys didn't show when things got serious. Maybe they start with all guys not already in school.
Quote from: Gregory Sager on March 18, 2025, 12:10:09 PMAPU is central geographically in the SCIAC. So travel will be quicker and less expensive for all. Schedules will not require excessive out of state games. If Oxy attempts to restart football there will be nine football schools. That would mean eight SCIAC games and one out of state every other year. So the pressure is now on them.Quote from: jknezek on March 17, 2025, 03:41:31 PMThat's a good pickup for the SCIAC. Should ease scheduling.
Definitely, and while Kuiper is right about Azusa Pacific not being up to par with the rest of the SCIAC in terms of academic reputation this is perhaps a response to the ongoing problem of being an island conference in terms of D3 geography. Gray Fox might want to chime in on this, but in some respects this looks a bit like Chapman, Pt. 2 in terms of SCIAC expansion. I mean, the island conference problem is only going to get worse, because in this current financial climate for D3 schools I have to think that cross-continental travel for D3 athletic programs for anything other than national tournaments and meets will diminish.
The big question for me in terms of APU joining the SCIAC is how the Cougars will fit into the SCIAC landscape in terms of actual competition. APU has flexed a lot of muscle since the days when Christian Okoye was running roughshod over NAIA tacklers as a Cougar RB in the early '80s. APU was a major all-sports power in NAIA before it moved to D2, and it's finished in the Top 20 every year of D2's version of the Learfield Directors' Cup and won all of the Commissioner's Cup trophies in the GSAC since joining that league. Granted, the GSAC isn't what it used to be in terms of D2 competition since losing all-sports powerhouses such as Grand Canyon and Cal Baptist over the past dozen years, but that's still impressive -- and it makes me wonder if APU is going to be the 600-pound gorilla of the SCIAC, even after the scholarships are gone.Quote from: jknezek on March 17, 2025, 03:41:31 PMI'd love to see DIII pick up a D2 conference in the southeast and fill in some holes. Something like D2's SIAC moving to D3 would really help with scheduling for the the southeastern D3s. And I still struggle to see the benefits of D2 for smaller private schools.
Everytime I hear about an E&H or a Ferrum I just shake my head. I get it, they are trying to stand out in a crowded D3 environment, but I find it hard to believe it makes economic sense.
Enthusiastically agree on both counts.Quote from: jknezek on March 17, 2025, 03:41:31 PMGood job picking up Azusa Pacific. They were a D2 orphan, so it makes sense.
Only in football, and only in a theoretical future sense. That orphanhood would've only existed had APU stayed in its current league, D2's Great Southwest Athletic Conference, because the GSAC doesn't sponsor football. The decisions to transition to D3 and the SCIAC, and to reinstate the Cougars football program after abandoning it half a decade ago, seem to have been made in tandem -- or at least that's how Azusa Pacific is presenting it.
Quote from: Little Giant 89 on March 17, 2025, 03:35:00 PMI know it was 17 years ago and at a different NCAA division level, but I'm trying to imagine Christian Okoye lining up against even an above average D-III defense. Terrifying!I saw him play against one of Oxy's good teams. It took three guys to bring him down.
Quote from: Caz Bombers on March 07, 2025, 10:35:20 PMI don't think you're reading that correctly. Unified athletics program means 1 department instead of 2. There won't be NJCU Gothic Knights teams anymore when this goes through, but I imagine it will take a little while. Probably at least one more school year for NJCU.In the SCIAC we have : CMS (Claremont-Mudd-Scripps)
Quote from: that guy 31 on March 02, 2025, 11:35:56 PMPretty awesome weekend of basketball in the SCIAC with nothing but nail-biting last-second finishes. Man it sure would be great if you could actually watch the game streams instead of them being buried behind a pay-wall so a couple schools can gouge their players' parents for a few bucks in subscription fees. Would have been great for the conference if people could actually watch the games.I was actually following the women's teams all season. So that made it better for the cost. But the feeds were better than last year.
Anywho, CMS somehow escapes at Redlands and Cal Lu to steal a bid. All three should be tourney teams. Fantastic season by Whittier too.
Quote from: Little Giant 89 on February 26, 2025, 02:21:39 PMMeanwhile, back at the ranch, the Endowment Tax Fairness Act could cripple small colleges (like mine) that have worked to build their endowment and use the income from that endowment to operate the school and keep the actual tuition paid by students low.God help us.
https://nehls.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-troy-e-nehls-introduces-bill-hold-elite-university-endowments-accountable
Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on February 20, 2025, 03:16:29 PMI suspect it's an unspoken aim, but Massachusetts has been working hard to run some of the smaller private colleges out and shift those students to the state system. High achieving HS students can now generally attend state schools for free and the Attorney General's office has been very strictly holding to quite rigorous standards for the colleges.California is a virtual desert when it comes to smaller colleges.
I don't necessarily disagree with high standards and healthy schools, but it sure doesn't make it easier to stay open - a lot of states are bending over backward to try and save schools (see Wesley).
Quote from: RFBredux on February 10, 2025, 02:38:53 PMHe looks like a good hire. Glad WC is back.Quote from: 10Freeway on February 10, 2025, 01:58:26 PMWhittier is getting serious with their Head Coach hire. Cory White from the FBS ranks. He coached and graduated from Whittier, 2004- 2007. It will be interesting to see what his hires look like.
Agree. Good hire and glad to see Whittier will be back playing ball. Would like to see rational minds back at Oxy too.
Quote from: RFBredux on January 24, 2025, 12:44:30 PMMatters little if they try to run the same spread system. The offensive line has regressed to such a bad state that more than half of those guys have no business playing college football.I you don't want to give money, you can at least give emotional support. Otherwise nobody will want to go there at all.