DFW HOYA
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Post by DFW HOYA on Aug 12, 2013 12:02:27 GMT -5
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Post by CAHoya07 on Aug 12, 2013 19:09:04 GMT -5
Still looks much nicer than ours. It will be interesting to see how they turn that 15,000-seat stadium into a 40,000-seat one.
Tough words from the Charlotte AD Judy Rose: "We've had a very strong athletic program here, but without football you're not viewed as a total athletic program."
I am still glad that we are pursuing our basketball-centric model with nine other Big East institutions. That said, I think we need to prove from a football standpoint that we can be on par with the other Big East schools that have FCS football, Butler and Villanova. Kind of borrowing from another thread, I think it's crucial that we up our program and compete with these and other schools like the Ivies on the field in football. Otherwise, what is the point?
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Post by DFW HOYA on Aug 12, 2013 21:22:20 GMT -5
Still looks much nicer than ours. It will be interesting to see how they turn that 15,000-seat stadium into a 40,000-seat one. The current seats are all below ground. They would simply build a deck above these seats and a 25 row setup around the field would yield an additional 25,000 seats. I am still glad that we are pursuing our basketball-centric model with nine other Big East institutions. That said, I think we need to prove from a football standpoint that we can be on par with the other Big East schools that have FCS football, Butler and Villanova. Kind of borrowing from another thread, I think it's crucial that we up our program and compete with these and other schools like the Ivies on the field in football. Otherwise, what is the point? Butler and Villanova are on opposite sides of the spectrum. Butler officially spends about $650,000 a year on football (Georgetown spends about $1.6 million). The Butler Bowl was only recently renovated; before, it was as bad as the MSF. The Bulldogs play two D-III schools and travel to such places as South Dakota State, San Diego, and Jacksonville to fill out a schedule. Villanova spent $5.3 million on football last year. The program was this close to joining Big East football two years ago, but Pitt threw a wrench into the proceeedings and as a result, Villanova is not in the AAC today (or a wildcard to cement the Philadelphia market for the ACC). As a result, there is grumblings that the PL could be an eventual home for the Wildcats--same expense, but with much less prestige and less opportunity for national prominence. But it is not giving up on full scholarship football. Truth be told, Georgetown doesn't want to be Butler and it can't afford to be the next Villanova. The next few years are important because the Hoyas will soon be marooned on Nonscholarship Island while everyone has left for the shore. Georgetown employs, more or less, the philosophy of 1964 football in 2013, but the Patriot League doesn't anymore, and that's going to cause problems at some point, especially with the PL's use of an Ivy-styled academic index that restricts the ability of Georgetown to recruit below its range of accepted students by SAT and GPA. If someone asks why Georgetown has seven QB's, well, in part, it's because they met the standard and other players could not. Neither Butler nor Villanova are bound by this index. Finally, the "what's the point" argument remains a hollow one. There is a reason Georgetown doesn't compete at the NCAA sport minimum like the Seton Halls of the world do. It offers competitive opportunities to students commensurate with its peers, and football is a part of this, just as someone might ask "what's the point" with a rowing team, or a baseball team, or a tennis team. Plenty of schools have none of these, but they generally aren't among Georgetown's peers. |
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