FB: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[RFBredux]

Redlands is not going to make any significant investment in football.  They can say all they want on the surface level in order to get donations to the Athletic Department/School.  What happened to the campaign for athletics? It just disappeared and we never heard what happened to the money.  I hope everyone that donated asked for their money back.  SCIAC football is dying and admin knows it, that's why we don't see Redlands investing in football.  Football only helps to bolster the enrollment at UR in their eyes.  With out Football, UR would be 80/20 male to female.

Yep. D3 football in Southern California is dying on a vine. I give the SCIAC 5 years at most before the football conference is no more.

[10Freeway]

Hearing that UR is turning into a commuter school.  Can't fill up all the dorms when they cost $17k for room and board.  Tuition is $60k, making UR $78K a year with some of the other fees.  I think that is killing SCIAC football more than inept administrators.

[RFBredux]

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Hearing that UR is turning into a commuter school.  Can't fill up all the dorms when they cost $17k for room and board.  Tuition is $60k, making UR $78K a year with some of the other fees.  I think that is killing SCIAC football more than inept administrators.

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Hearing that UR is turning into a commuter school.  Can't fill up all the dorms when they cost $17k for room and board.  Tuition is $60k, making UR $78K a year with some of the other fees.  I think that is killing SCIAC football more than inept administrators.

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Yeah, it's too expensive. Even with grants and financial aid to lower the cost, there are better options out there.

[Dr. Doolittle]

Flo Sports is 19.95 or 150 bucks for the year. You can watch more than one game at the same time. I have as many as four games on during FB season, so just chalk it up to another tax and I am paying my fair share, right Kamala.
The Chapman broadcast was excellent in terms of picture quality (Student broadcasters need to study up)  and PP appear to have bought a camera from Best Buy instead of using my old Sony Super 8. My hope is this forces UR to upgrade its equipment and quit using a Mitch's phone as a hot spot for their feed.

I don't think Old Dog implied that the federal govt. was responsible for the change in televising SCIAC football, only that He is paying a lot of taxes and joked that this is like another tax.  Just my impression Pat.  Thanks for having this Board.

The federal government is not behind the SCIAC's desire to get money, sir.

[Pat Coleman]

No, but he keeps throwing politics into the conversation. Enough.

[olddog]

Pat you are wound too tight, its humor, everywhere we turn nowadays people have their hand out...
Relax...Irony is SCIAC product has their hand out now and level of SCIAC play is in decline. Those PP and CMS teams would have got beat by 30 by CLU, UR , Chapman....10 plus years ago..It maybe another 10 years before we win a playoff game

[Pat Coleman]

Pat you are wound too tight, its humor, everywhere we turn nowadays people have their hand out...

Or, maybe don't inject politics into your football posts.

[olddog]

We can pretend politics do not affect us everyday, but it does. The purposeful direction most liberal arts schools have taken in the west, has affected which sports they play, segmentation and lack of donations from past players and major donors. All of these issue are affecting your number one sport, Football...
I guess we should pretend we are seeing zero impact? if you know truthful AD's ask them.
 

[Pat Coleman]

However, board users have been pretty united in not wanting political posts on the board. If you remember when we used to try to segment politics into a separate board, that conversation ended up not being sustainable either.

[olddog]

Thanks for seeing there is an impact and change happening at Liberal Arts colleges.
Schools like Oxy can do what they want because they have a huge endowment from ex athletes who played that evil sport of Football. However, LV, UR, ...can't take that position due to the small endowments. They are in a catch 22. 

[SoCalLance]

Does anyone have any predictions about Cal Lu this weekend?

[Dr. Doolittle]

Does anyone have any predictions about Cal Lu this weekend?

Cal Lutheran is at a long time low in roster number and quality.  Lugo not doing a good job recruiting and coaching staff lost Offensive Coordinator/O-Line coach to D2 program.  Central is a strong team from Midwest who will beat up on CLU and I predict Central by around 30 points.  Sad state CLU and some SCIAC football teams has gotten too!

[Redman03]

Central only has six losses in the past three years and five of those losses are to: Whitewater, Wartburg twice, Coe twice. Cal Lu is hoping Central goes to the Angels/Astros game Friday night (dodgers are on the road), surf lessons in Malibu at 5 am Saturday morning, do a team 5k and then show up to the 1pm game.

[Dr. Doolittle]

Central only has six losses in the past three years and five of those losses are to: Whitewater, Wartburg twice, Coe twice. Cal Lu is hoping Central goes to the Angels/Astros game Friday night (dodgers are on the road), surf lessons in Malibu at 5 am Saturday morning, do a team 5k and then show up to the 1pm game.

Perfectly stated

[10Freeway]

I disagree about University endowment.  Linfield, Mary Hardin Baylor and Mount Union all have endowments less than 125 million and they have awesome football programs.  It's all about what the Administration cares about.  Unfortunately, Redlands is all about inflated salaries for administrators and keeping people employed that only work bankers hours and thrive on mediocrity.  Maynard wasn't let go because of social impacts, everyone on campus was very jealous of his success.  Life is a whole lot easier for certain administrators without Maynard around.  They use football to raise money and then don't put that money in the program.  The only reason the tennis facility was up graded because the main donor asked for this money back if they didn't build it.  Remember the Campaign for Athletics 5 years ago, where did that money go?