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Poor/broke CWU trying to cobble together funds for stadium upgrades
ApostleofGrief
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http://www.dailyrecordnews.com/sports/cwu-trustees-agree-to-move-forward-with-tomlinson-stadium-improvements/article_7f3c7f0b-6dd3-5c76-9cdf-0eb2e60002e7.html
The best part of the stadium now though -- no jumbotron.
The best part of the stadium now though -- no jumbotron.
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No NAIA team or a team that plays NAIA teams needs an $8 million stadium and they especially don't need a jumbotron.
There is way too much football after high school. The worst player I have ever coached in 15 years, I'm talking a 5'5 150lb ginger with two left feet and no strength made an NAIA roster.
NO 5'5" 150 lb lineman ever played at Western Oregon. Ever.
You must really hate that young kid.
Not going to get much money from a shoemaker.
What a joke!
I know you're going to counter with all of those schools have track, basketball, etc. and you are correct. Those sports don't need 16 man coaching staffs and tons of equipment. Also, most of those kids that play at these low levels aren't very good athletes, but you are asking them to spend an extra half decade killing their body in the weight room and on the field for very little return. You can half ass track, soccer and basketball and no one cares. You can't half ass a 200lb guy smashing into you.
End rant, but these little schools everywhere with multi-million dollar stadiums and 75 fans is ridiculous and a drag on tax dollars. This isn't Texas high school football.
HTH
There are 124 D-1AA schools with 80 players on each. That's another 9,920 kids. There are 169 D-2 schools. Of course they can only give grants to 36 but they have a ton of walk-on's so lets say they have 55 per team. That's another 9,295 kids. There are 448, yes 448 D-3 schools, which about 250 have a football program. Again, you're looking at an average of around 50 kids per team. That's another 12,500 kids. There are 88 NAIA schools playing football. We can use that same 50 kid metric and be accurate. That's another 4,440 kids.
We might as well add this one; there are 126 JUCO programs out there. I've never seen a JUCO with less than 50 kids on the team, but let's use 50 as the average. That's another 6,300 kids.
Overall we are talking about 51,665 kids playing football after high school. When you factor is basketball, baseball, hockey, crew, golf, and T&F taking their cut out of the athlete pool do you really think the back half of these 50k+ kids are good athletes? Of course they aren't. They are kids that didn't want to stop playing and that's about it. The tax payers and fellow students shouldn't be on the hook for that. If they want to keep playing then join a local semi-pro team and pay for your hobby, because down there that's all it is.
I will add to the talent disparity argument. I had a WR play for me in Tucson that was a scholarship player at New Mexico State, which is the worst D-1A program. He barely played all four years. Just to see if he could do it, he went and walked onto the Arizona Rattlers Arena team, which is one of the best Arena teams. He scored three TD's in his first game. The talent gap between actual football players and people that just want to play football is mammoth.
After D-1AA the majority of decent metro high school programs are better teams that their college counterparts, which isn't supposed to be the case.