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RE: Why Does A School's Different Campuses have Different Athletic Teams
(04-17-2018 10:30 PM)arkstfan Wrote: (04-17-2018 08:59 PM)RobtheAggie Wrote: What it comes down to is the way the school is accredited. If University of Texas had one accreditation for all of its campuses, they would be able to have one set of athletic teams. If each campus receives a separate accreditation, they can each have athletics. In the first example I gave, all sports do not have to be on the same campus. For example UT-Austin could have football, UT-Dallas - Basketball, UT-El Paso - Softball etc.
Nailed it.
Nope. It is really up to the school to apply for NCAA membership. Pitt has four regional campuses in Johnstown, Greensburg, Bradford, and Titusville. All fall under its main Pittsburgh campus accreditation although they are fairly self-standing. The first 3 schools are full-four year colleges, while Titusville is only a 2-year school.
Pitt-Johnstown's sports programs (the Mountain Cats) are NCAA Division II and compete in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC). Pitt-Greensburg (the Bobcats) and Pitt-Bradford (the Panthers) are NCAA Division III and both compete in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference. Titusville (the Panthers) only has about 300 students and offers only a couple of non-NCAA varsity sports that compete in the United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA), which btw, is what 13 of Penn State's regional campuses compete in.
It was actually Pitt-Johnstown, in 1975, that was the first regional or branch campus of a major university which didn't have its own separate accreditation to be granted NCAA membership. That happened after about 6 years of trying and being rejected.
(This post was last modified: 04-18-2018 08:39 PM by CrazyPaco.)
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