Posted on 12/03/2009 9:27:45 AM PST by SoftballMominVA
When my husband and i went to Hofstra,in the 60’s, we had a fabulous football team. Quite a number of players went on to the pros. This announcement surprises me.
Very much the exception. Not every college football team has their own national TV contract which they don't have to share with other conference members. Nor have special sweetheart provisions in the BCS contract.
The Kamikaze Play - “Send Cosby up the middle, everybody else off the field.”
Agree, when I read about the contract renewal it pissed me off too and wondered about the schools struggling to maintain a sports program period
My guess is that the planned Medical School is more likely the reason
The Pride
Of course there are - but how many universities with football teams are starting a medical school from scratch in this economy?
“We’re going to pass out these affadavits that we want you to sign stating that you will not touch certain areas of your body....while out there on the football field.”
My daughter is a sophomore bio-chem major on the pre-med track. She loves it there, and from all accounts, she is earning an excellent science education.
Several D3 schools in New England just added football.
For the sports fanatic parent, they can send their rolly-polly fat kid who could barely play HS football to a college and play NCAA football. And they can pay $30k a year to do it.
Figure 70 kids on the team, x 30k net = 2.1 million a year.
When you dont have to pay scholarships, football is still a pretty good deal.
Hofstra plays football?
I love the “this is not a budget reduction, but cutting football will decrease our expenses.”
IIRC it's the "Flying Dutchmen".When I was at the US Merchant Marine Academy at King's Point in the late Fifties, Hofstra would annually kick our butts. They were a small college powerhouse back in the day.
Sorry SoftballMom, I can't let this go. I had to do some digging.
The net cost of the Hofstra football program for '08-09 is approximately $4.5 million, including scholarships. The entire Athletics Revenue for the same time frame is $4.703 mil and change.
Ticket Sales, Corporate Sponsorships, Endowment Income and Game Guaratees are each below 10%. NCAA & CAA Distributions, Pride Club Contributions and Facility Rentals each accounted for over 20%.
The entire Hofstra Athletics program was in jeopardy of collapsing so they plugged the largest drain, Football.
It was easier to do it this way instead of DEMANDING the AD get off his AS* and come up with ways to increase Corporate Sponsorships, Endowments, etc.
Anyway, that's my story and I'm sticking to it
It WAS called the “Flying Dutchmen” - a superior and unique name in the eyes of many students.
But it was officially changed to “The Pride” several years ago
There is a group of students asking to change it back, or use it in addition to “The Pride” because, WTH is “THE PRIDE”??
OMG! Those are some incredible numbers!!! The cost of the football team nearly equalled the entire revenue for the whole sports program!
I wonder if the expense of the pep band (50 players that get $25 each to play at the football games) is included in that number?
I’ll pass this info on to my daughter
Unless I’m mistaken, the NCAA allows for Band and Cheer to travel with their team. That 25 bucks per pep band member would have to be included in their expense report.
Yeah, just think of how far the University of Chicago’s academic standards have fallen since leaving the Big 10.
ESPN has picked up your story. Here’s the link...
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4709412
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