One suggestion may be to title "I-A Schools" versus "I-AA and Non-Football Schools."
Wilkie01 Wrote:Are you ready to move up to D1.
Georegetown has been in Division I since the division was first created by the NCAA. After a number of years at the major college level (with Orange and Sun Bowl appearances in the 1940's and 1950's) it now plays football at the Division I-AA level and is comfortable doing so.
A full time resident student at Uof L pays, what, $5,000 a year? The cost of a year at Georgetown is now
$45,850 a year. The cost of funding 85 scholarships plus comparable Title IX grants would approach $8 million a year for a school that awards its aid solely on need.
Only three I-A schools are smaller than Georgetown: Rice, Wake Forest, and Tulsa. And with only 3% of Georgetown students actually from Washington DC, the local fan base is much smaller than most might realize. Nonetheless, lacking control of a stadium large enough to host Big East games knocked Georgetown and Villanova out of the mix in the late 1990's when UConn pushed for an upgrade.
The sheer cost of I-A for a private university is an investment with no real guarantee of return. What was the last private school to join I-A, anyway?