(12-15-2020 08:25 PM)bullet Wrote:  https://www.dailynews.com/2020/12/15/azu...s-program/

No other Division II or NAIA schools in California playing football.

APU will save $2.56 million by cutting out football on a total athletic budget of $12.1 million, a little over a 20% savings on athletics. It is surprising that they are cutting football, but it does make sense. In California, at the collegiate level, administrators look at football as an expense that is not worth the trouble. California has 26 D1 programs. Only 11 play football. As we already know, known of the 20 D2 programs play football in California. As a comparison, Texas has 24 D1 programs and 21 play football. The three that don't play football have all looked at adding football. Texas has 13 D2 programs, with 6 playing football.

In California, 22 of the 26 D1 schools have men's soccer programs. In Texas, 5 of the 24 D1 programs have a men's soccer program. At the collegiate level, California has a different set of priorities. Which is why it is common for high school football players to go out-of-state to play college football and for their only offers to come from out-of-state schools. I know of one high school quarterback that has three D1 scholarship football offers to east coast FCS schools.

Well, Lincoln University in California is ramping sports in the fall of 2021, and they added football.

(12-15-2020 09:21 PM)Todor Wrote:  

(12-15-2020 08:43 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  That leaves just Central Washington, Eastern Oregon, and Simon Frazier at the D2 level on the West Coast. I wonder how long they survive. Simon Frazier has to be thinking about returning to Canadian football and the other two have to hope for affiliate status with the RMAC or it’s the NAIA for them.

Western Oregon. Eastern is NAIA.

Ergh—those confusing directional Oregon schools.

I have to think those GNAC schools have to be really concerned right now.

NAIA seems to be healthy in the Pacific Northwest—maybe they can go there.