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RE: Why Does A School's Different Campuses have Different Athletic Teams
The problems you see in Ohio State and university of Alabama cases, they do not want other schools in their system to have sports. That is why Ohio State is a lone Ohio school in the P5 structure right now. These types of schools do not want competition like UAB was forced to shut down their football program under the direction of UAT main board of regents. In the case of Texas and California cases? They are looking at adding more schools to be D1 or be in the P5 conferences. You do have schools like Houston, UTSA, Rice, UTEP, and SMU mentioned being P5. Then you have the likes of schools like Lamar, Sam Houston State, SFA, Texas A&M-Central, Texas A&M-UTSA and West Texas A&M to FBS some day. Plus you have the Lone Star schools talking about going to D1. In California? We get California Baptist and UC-San Diego moving up. Talks about Azusa Pacific, the public and private schools in D2 as likely targets for D1 as well.

I could see schools in Louisiana to merge in the future. There are way too many 4 year schools for a small populated state. I do think New Orleans may have to merged with somebody else. They are struggling like Chicago State, but not as bad as them though.
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RE: Why Does A School's Different Campuses have Different Athletic Teams
(04-22-2018 06:03 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  The problems you see in Ohio State and university of Alabama cases, they do not want other schools in their system to have sports. That is why Ohio State is a lone Ohio school in the P5 structure right now.
The way that OSU runs sports in the mostly two-year program branch campuses in the OSU branch campus network is really SO NOT why OSU is the only Ohio school in the P5.

The Ohio branch campus networks ... called "regional campuses" ... are legacies of the policy of old Governor "Jobs and Rhodes" to put a branch campus of a public university within 30 miles of every Ohio resident that is more than thirty miles from a main campus. So OSU has branch campuses at Lima, Mansfield, Marion, Newark and Wooster.

But OSU does not "run" the branch campus network throughout Ohio. The MAC schools in Ohio have their own branch campus networks ... my alma mater has two, in Hamilton and Middletown, OhioU has five, in Zanesville, Chilicothe, Lancaster, Ironton and St. Clairsville, and Kent State has seven, in Ashtabula, East Liverpool, Geauga, Salem, Canton, Warren and New Philadelphia, and &c.

But the fact that none of the OU or Kent State regional campuses have a D1 basketball doesn't have anything to do with the Bobcats or the Golden Flashes trying to "suppress competition" ... it's due to the fact that they are small branch campuses serving primarily commuter students with two year degrees and the first two years of four degrees to be completed at the main campus. Ditto with OSU's regional campuses: it is infeasible for those to have FCS football programs, never mind P5 football.

I do not have evidence at hand, but I am 100% confident that when OSU has an opportunity at hand to reduce any available chance for UC, OhioU, MiamiU, Kent State, Akron, Toledo or Bowling Green to make the step up to P5, they'll exercise it. Institutions with advantages act to protect those advantages. Anybody shocked by that needs to open their eyes just a bit wider and have a more serious look around.

But claiming that this has anything whatsoever to do with how they run their sports programs at their regional campuses is totally and completely divorced from reality, as is to be expected by any long time reader of DavidSt's nonsense.
04-23-2018 03:18 AM
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