(03-15-2020 11:08 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(03-14-2020 07:24 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  Southern U. -Shreveport To Add Football


New NJCAA school adding the sport.

2020 looks like the first year.

Looks like a strange arrangement. It's hard to sort out from the article, but looks like a private organizational called "Southern Shreveport Jags" will actually run the team, be responsible for its finances (no scholarships from the university), hiring coaches, etc. while SU- Shreveport (SUSLA) provides an official affiliation for the team, and the players all have to be students in good standing at SUSLA.

But the sponsoring organization seems to be its own entity, the article says they are "bringing the football team" over from Texas A&T.

Weird .... I guess this is what goes on at the lowest dregs of college football.

This is not the first to do this, but it is the first to take the name of a school. Here is an example out of NC -http://jirehprepwarriors.com/

What they normally do is put the kids in a local community college and then play a bunch of games. This is different where the students will be using the name of the college, at least as much as I can understand.