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USA and UWF were both started nearly at the same time and have similar enrollments. But USA only took a little more than a decade to move to DI, while UWF didn't even move to a good DII league until a decade later. UWF had ample opportunity to be a Sun Belt school when both didn't have football.
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(03-04-2017 06:30 PM)NoDak Wrote:  USA and UWF were both started nearly at the same time and have similar enrollments. But USA only took a little more than a decade to move to DI, while UWF didn't even move to a good DII league until a decade later. UWF had ample opportunity to be a Sun Belt school when both didn't have football.

Are you stating that UWF received an invite from the Sun Belt some time in the past?
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(03-05-2017 12:34 PM)FloridaJag Wrote:  
(03-04-2017 06:30 PM)NoDak Wrote:  USA and UWF were both started nearly at the same time and have similar enrollments. But USA only took a little more than a decade to move to DI, while UWF didn't even move to a good DII league until a decade later. UWF had ample opportunity to be a Sun Belt school when both didn't have football.

Are you stating that UWF received an invite from the Sun Belt some time in the past?

No. UWF's leadership has not emphasized athletics, but that can change. Granted, USA had a big early endowment, as the state of Alabama granted it offshore oil royalties in the early years. But USA's former presidents were firmly and passionately against football too until a decade ago.
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(03-05-2017 12:34 PM)FloridaJag Wrote:  
(03-04-2017 06:30 PM)NoDak Wrote:  USA and UWF were both started nearly at the same time and have similar enrollments. But USA only took a little more than a decade to move to DI, while UWF didn't even move to a good DII league until a decade later. UWF had ample opportunity to be a Sun Belt school when both didn't have football.

Are you stating that UWF received an invite from the Sun Belt some time in the past?

No. UWF's leadership has not emphasized athletics, but that can change. Granted, USA had a big early endowment, as the state of Alabama granted it offshore oil royalties in the early years. But USA's former presidents were firmly and passionately against football too until a decade ago.

Yep. Whiddon was totally against USA having a football program for over 35 years. We had to wait until his retirement to get football.
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I've heard that it was the dying wish of Mayer Mitchell for South to start football. It was only a few months after his death when the program was announced.
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(03-06-2017 08:25 AM)chargeradio Wrote:  I've heard that it was the dying wish of Mayer Mitchell for South to start football. It was only a few months after his death when the program was announced.


Could have been. Whiddon died in 2002 and Mitchell passed in 2007.
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(03-06-2017 08:25 AM)chargeradio Wrote:  I've heard that it was the dying wish of Mayer Mitchell for South to start football. It was only a few months after his death when the program was announced.

While much of the info on the recent posts seems to be onpoint (regarding Whiddon and the impact of the allocation of unused public education land grant revenues to USA at inception on its endowment), I'm not sure the Mitchells are pushing football as much as you'd think. I doubt they're opposed to football, but I'd note that while that family's reported donations to USA is approaching 100 million dollars (I think the total was around 93 million and counting 4 years ago), that their support of big ticket items at USA have not been concentrated in football. I don't know them, but one would think that if they were really pushing football as much as some might think, one would think that you'd see more Mitchell paid for investments in football. Seems to me that the real push (with the tuition programs) is to get USA's enrollment to 20,000 while increasing the academic profile of the average student - in order to help with retention). Maybe y'all know more than I do about them.

But USA has been very fortunate to have the oil/gas revenue and the Mitchell family backing the institution.

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The reasons why USA has a FBS team appears to be the result of a confluence of events that might not be applicable to UWF.

1) USA was in a conference that allowed USA to move directly to a FBS conference from program inception. At USA, it wasn't invest and 'maybe'. It was invest and you WILL be in a FBS conference. It was an almost unique situation (UALR - which will probably never do it, and UTA - which might at some point - are the only two programs that are similar). If the real goal of UWF is to move to FBS, they'd have a lot more variability about how to get there. UWF isn't moving to be a FBS indy.

2) USA didn't have to build a stadium to go FBS. Sure Ladd is a dump, but it seats 40,000 and its basically free. We will start on the OCS sometime around 2020. So basically, 15 years rent free to build the program. And while the stadium looks empty with 20,000 fans, it holds enough people to allow for USA to host bigger named teams. UWF will have to build a stadium, without any indication that they'll be able to jump into a conference in FBS.

3) USA's market didn't have close FBS alternatives. USM is 90 miles away, but USM never bothered to make any real attempt to leverage their position. And USM wasn't in the projected conference with USA and therefore, wasn't in a position to block USA. UWF would have local competition, and that competition would be in a position to attempt to block UWF from at least one potential conference landing spot.

In short, for USA, the decision was a lot easier for them than for other schools. No one else in the market, free place to play, and a conference home. Plus a really healthy endowment and a growing student population. While no moveup is going FBS to make money, USA could and did do it for far less money than other startups. Basically, spend FCS money, but play in FBS. UWF has none of those advantages. UWF will have to spend a pantload to get to FCS, then spend a pantload again to get to FBS, and then find a place that will have them.
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(03-06-2017 09:26 AM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  
(03-06-2017 08:25 AM)chargeradio Wrote:  I've heard that it was the dying wish of Mayer Mitchell for South to start football. It was only a few months after his death when the program was announced.

While much of the info on the recent posts seems to be onpoint (regarding Whiddon and the impact of the allocation of unused public education land grant revenues to USA at inception on its endowment), I'm not sure the Mitchells are pushing football as much as you'd think. I doubt they're opposed to football, but I'd note that while that family's reported donations to USA is approaching 100 million dollars (I think the total was around 93 million and counting 4 years ago), that their support of big ticket items at USA have not been concentrated in football. I don't know them, but one would think that if they were really pushing football as much as some might think, one would think that you'd see more Mitchell paid for investments in football. Seems to me that the real push (with the tuition programs) is to get USA's enrollment to 20,000 while increasing the academic profile of the average student - in order to help with retention). Maybe y'all know more than I do about them.

But USA has been very fortunate to have the oil/gas revenue and the Mitchell family backing the institution.

----

The reasons why USA has a FBS team appears to be the result of a confluence of events that might not be applicable to UWF.

1) USA was in a conference that allowed USA to move directly to a FBS conference from program inception. At USA, it wasn't invest and 'maybe'. It was invest and you WILL be in a FBS conference. It was an almost unique situation (UALR - which will probably never do it, and UTA - which might at some point - are the only two programs that are similar). If the real goal of UWF is to move to FBS, they'd have a lot more variability about how to get there. UWF isn't moving to be a FBS indy.

2) USA didn't have to build a stadium to go FBS. Sure Ladd is a dump, but it seats 40,000 and its basically free. We will start on the OCS sometime around 2020. So basically, 15 years rent free to build the program. And while the stadium looks empty with 20,000 fans, it holds enough people to allow for USA to host bigger named teams. UWF will have to build a stadium, without any indication that they'll be able to jump into a conference in FBS.

3) USA's market didn't have close FBS alternatives. USM is 90 miles away, but USM never bothered to make any real attempt to leverage their position. And USM wasn't in the projected conference with USA and therefore, wasn't in a position to block USA. UWF would have local competition, and that competition would be in a position to attempt to block UWF from at least one potential conference landing spot.

In short, for USA, the decision was a lot easier for them than for other schools. No one else in the market, free place to play, and a conference home. Plus a really healthy endowment and a growing student population. While no moveup is going FBS to make money, USA could and did do it for far less money than other startups. Basically, spend FCS money, but play in FBS. UWF has none of those advantages. UWF will have to spend a pantload to get to FCS, then spend a pantload again to get to FBS, and then find a place that will have them.

Okay. I will play.

UWF has two routes that will help them to FBS and the Sun Belt.

Option 1. Join the Big South Conference.

The BSC current members are:

Charleston Southern
Kennesaw State
Liberty
Gardner Webb
Presbyterian
Monmouth
North Alabama

Not ideal but gives UWF room to schedule games against Sun Belt members.

With six conference games, UWF can schedule 2 games away games a year with Sun Belt members. Thereby, establishing a relationship.

This also leaves room to home vs home games against schedule games against Florida A&M, Alabama State, Jacksonville State and Jacksonville.

Example Schedule:

1. Alabama State
2. @ Florida A&M
3. @ Charleston Southern
4. Gardner Webb
5. @ Liberty
6. North Alabama
7. @ Troy
8. @ South Alabama
9. Monmouth
10. @Presbyterian
11. Kennesaw State

Plus UWF should start scheduling Baseball/Softball/Basketball games against USA, Troy, Georgia State, UNF and FGCU. I think ULM would look favorably at scheduling a UWF + USA road trip or a Troy + UWF + USA road trip.

Option 2 is the Southern Conference which stresses the UWF travel budget for non football sports. Plus leaves less room to play money games against Sun Belt members.
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(03-06-2017 11:23 AM)FloridaJag Wrote:  
(03-06-2017 09:26 AM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  
(03-06-2017 08:25 AM)chargeradio Wrote:  I've heard that it was the dying wish of Mayer Mitchell for South to start football. It was only a few months after his death when the program was announced.

While much of the info on the recent posts seems to be onpoint (regarding Whiddon and the impact of the allocation of unused public education land grant revenues to USA at inception on its endowment), I'm not sure the Mitchells are pushing football as much as you'd think. I doubt they're opposed to football, but I'd note that while that family's reported donations to USA is approaching 100 million dollars (I think the total was around 93 million and counting 4 years ago), that their support of big ticket items at USA have not been concentrated in football. I don't know them, but one would think that if they were really pushing football as much as some might think, one would think that you'd see more Mitchell paid for investments in football. Seems to me that the real push (with the tuition programs) is to get USA's enrollment to 20,000 while increasing the academic profile of the average student - in order to help with retention). Maybe y'all know more than I do about them.

But USA has been very fortunate to have the oil/gas revenue and the Mitchell family backing the institution.

----

The reasons why USA has a FBS team appears to be the result of a confluence of events that might not be applicable to UWF.

1) USA was in a conference that allowed USA to move directly to a FBS conference from program inception. At USA, it wasn't invest and 'maybe'. It was invest and you WILL be in a FBS conference. It was an almost unique situation (UALR - which will probably never do it, and UTA - which might at some point - are the only two programs that are similar). If the real goal of UWF is to move to FBS, they'd have a lot more variability about how to get there. UWF isn't moving to be a FBS indy.

2) USA didn't have to build a stadium to go FBS. Sure Ladd is a dump, but it seats 40,000 and its basically free. We will start on the OCS sometime around 2020. So basically, 15 years rent free to build the program. And while the stadium looks empty with 20,000 fans, it holds enough people to allow for USA to host bigger named teams. UWF will have to build a stadium, without any indication that they'll be able to jump into a conference in FBS.

3) USA's market didn't have close FBS alternatives. USM is 90 miles away, but USM never bothered to make any real attempt to leverage their position. And USM wasn't in the projected conference with USA and therefore, wasn't in a position to block USA. UWF would have local competition, and that competition would be in a position to attempt to block UWF from at least one potential conference landing spot.

In short, for USA, the decision was a lot easier for them than for other schools. No one else in the market, free place to play, and a conference home. Plus a really healthy endowment and a growing student population. While no moveup is going FBS to make money, USA could and did do it for far less money than other startups. Basically, spend FCS money, but play in FBS. UWF has none of those advantages. UWF will have to spend a pantload to get to FCS, then spend a pantload again to get to FBS, and then find a place that will have them.

Okay. I will play.

UWF has two routes that will help them to FBS and the Sun Belt.

Option 1. Join the Big South Conference.

The BSC current members are:

Charleston Southern
Kennesaw State
Liberty
Gardner Webb
Presbyterian
Monmouth
North Alabama

Not ideal but gives UWF room to schedule games against Sun Belt members.

With six conference games, UWF can schedule 2 games away games a year with Sun Belt members. Thereby, establishing a relationship.

This also leaves room to home vs home games against schedule games against Florida A&M, Alabama State, Jacksonville State and Jacksonville.

Example Schedule:

1. Alabama State
2. @ Florida A&M
3. @ Charleston Southern
4. Gardner Webb
5. @ Liberty
6. North Alabama
7. @ Troy
8. @ South Alabama
9. Monmouth
10. @Presbyterian
11. Kennesaw State

Plus UWF should start scheduling Baseball/Softball/Basketball games against USA, Troy, Georgia State, UNF and FGCU. I think ULM would look favorably and scheduling a UWF + USA road trip or a Troy + UWF + USA road trip.

Option 2 is the Southern Conference which stresses the UWF travel budget for non football sports. Plus leaves less room to play money games against Sun Belt members.

USA does schedule local FCS teams....but appears to do so against in state FCS programs only. There's a reason for that...if you going to pay a team to play, might as well help the budget of an instate team. I'm not sure playing UWF would be a good idea. The point of a FCS game is to get a win, not help another team recruit. There's little upside for USA to play UWF in the short or medium term, even if they're in the Big South. All risk, no reward (other than some UWF fans in the stadium). USA would play UWF in baseball no problem, and probably would in basketball

Basically, what I think USA should do with the FCS game is this....a school 500 miles away or more that is a terrible FCS program with the correct number of scholarships.
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(03-06-2017 11:29 AM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  
(03-06-2017 11:23 AM)FloridaJag Wrote:  
(03-06-2017 09:26 AM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  
(03-06-2017 08:25 AM)chargeradio Wrote:  I've heard that it was the dying wish of Mayer Mitchell for South to start football. It was only a few months after his death when the program was announced.

While much of the info on the recent posts seems to be onpoint (regarding Whiddon and the impact of the allocation of unused public education land grant revenues to USA at inception on its endowment), I'm not sure the Mitchells are pushing football as much as you'd think. I doubt they're opposed to football, but I'd note that while that family's reported donations to USA is approaching 100 million dollars (I think the total was around 93 million and counting 4 years ago), that their support of big ticket items at USA have not been concentrated in football. I don't know them, but one would think that if they were really pushing football as much as some might think, one would think that you'd see more Mitchell paid for investments in football. Seems to me that the real push (with the tuition programs) is to get USA's enrollment to 20,000 while increasing the academic profile of the average student - in order to help with retention). Maybe y'all know more than I do about them.

But USA has been very fortunate to have the oil/gas revenue and the Mitchell family backing the institution.

----

The reasons why USA has a FBS team appears to be the result of a confluence of events that might not be applicable to UWF.

1) USA was in a conference that allowed USA to move directly to a FBS conference from program inception. At USA, it wasn't invest and 'maybe'. It was invest and you WILL be in a FBS conference. It was an almost unique situation (UALR - which will probably never do it, and UTA - which might at some point - are the only two programs that are similar). If the real goal of UWF is to move to FBS, they'd have a lot more variability about how to get there. UWF isn't moving to be a FBS indy.

2) USA didn't have to build a stadium to go FBS. Sure Ladd is a dump, but it seats 40,000 and its basically free. We will start on the OCS sometime around 2020. So basically, 15 years rent free to build the program. And while the stadium looks empty with 20,000 fans, it holds enough people to allow for USA to host bigger named teams. UWF will have to build a stadium, without any indication that they'll be able to jump into a conference in FBS.

3) USA's market didn't have close FBS alternatives. USM is 90 miles away, but USM never bothered to make any real attempt to leverage their position. And USM wasn't in the projected conference with USA and therefore, wasn't in a position to block USA. UWF would have local competition, and that competition would be in a position to attempt to block UWF from at least one potential conference landing spot.

In short, for USA, the decision was a lot easier for them than for other schools. No one else in the market, free place to play, and a conference home. Plus a really healthy endowment and a growing student population. While no moveup is going FBS to make money, USA could and did do it for far less money than other startups. Basically, spend FCS money, but play in FBS. UWF has none of those advantages. UWF will have to spend a pantload to get to FCS, then spend a pantload again to get to FBS, and then find a place that will have them.

Okay. I will play.

UWF has two routes that will help them to FBS and the Sun Belt.

Option 1. Join the Big South Conference.

The BSC current members are:

Charleston Southern
Kennesaw State
Liberty
Gardner Webb
Presbyterian
Monmouth
North Alabama

Not ideal but gives UWF room to schedule games against Sun Belt members.

With six conference games, UWF can schedule 2 games away games a year with Sun Belt members. Thereby, establishing a relationship.

This also leaves room to home vs home games against schedule games against Florida A&M, Alabama State, Jacksonville State and Jacksonville.

Example Schedule:

1. Alabama State
2. @ Florida A&M
3. @ Charleston Southern
4. Gardner Webb
5. @ Liberty
6. North Alabama
7. @ Troy
8. @ South Alabama
9. Monmouth
10. @Presbyterian
11. Kennesaw State

Plus UWF should start scheduling Baseball/Softball/Basketball games against USA, Troy, Georgia State, UNF and FGCU. I think ULM would look favorably and scheduling a UWF + USA road trip or a Troy + UWF + USA road trip.

Option 2 is the Southern Conference which stresses the UWF travel budget for non football sports. Plus leaves less room to play money games against Sun Belt members.

USA does schedule local FCS teams....but appears to do so against in state FCS programs only. There's a reason for that...if you going to pay a team to play, might as well help the budget of an instate team. I'm not sure playing UWF would be a good idea. The point of a FCS game is to get a win, not help another team recruit. There's little upside for USA to play UWF in the short or medium term, even if they're in the Big South. All risk, no reward (other than some UWF fans in the stadium). USA would play UWF in baseball no problem, and probably would in basketball

Basically, what I think USA should do with the FCS game is this....a school 500 miles away or more that is a terrible FCS program with the correct number of scholarships.

So here is the question:

How many of you think your school would schedule UWF (as an FCS opponent) for a home game?
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I'd like to see UWF, UNF, and FGCU start football and play in the FCS with Kennesaw St, for a while. Probably Jacksonville U (private school) too.

Then we'll see.
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(03-06-2017 12:39 PM)MplsBison Wrote:  I'd like to see UWF, UNF, and FGCU start football and play in the FCS with Kennesaw St, for a while. Probably Jacksonville U (private school) too.

Then we'll see.

I like that mix.
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High Point could start football in the future as well. Too bad Winthrop passed on adding football. Big South and ASun should also grab Florida Tech as well since they started football recently. ASun could become crowded with Florida schools. Do you think Southern Conference might be interested in the future to grab a Florida football school? It would expand their football print into Florida which they don't have a presence yet.
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UWF women in NCAA basketball tourney, but men snubbed

More heartbreak ensued for the University of West Florida men's basketball team during an NCAA tournament selection show.

Despite their 20-9 record, which matched the most wins in school history and a No. 6 rank in the region, the Argos were left out of the eight-team South Region field when the NCAA Division II committee chose the field.

A one-point loss in their tournament game and last-second loss by a team in another conference, cost the Argos. They were edged out by Christian Brothers (18-12), which beat UWF 65-64 Tin the quarterfinals of the Gulf South Conference Tournament at the CBU campus in Memphis.

The UWF women (25-6) who have matched the most wins in school history, did make the tournament field as a No. 2 seed -- highest in school history -- in the South Region of the D-2 women's basketball tournament. They will head to St. Petersburg for a first-round game Friday against Nova Southeastern.


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(03-08-2017 07:57 AM)FloridaJag Wrote:  UWF women in NCAA basketball tourney, but men snubbed

More heartbreak ensued for the University of West Florida men's basketball team during an NCAA tournament selection show.

Despite their 20-9 record, which matched the most wins in school history and a No. 6 rank in the region, the Argos were left out of the eight-team South Region field when the NCAA Division II committee chose the field.

A one-point loss in their tournament game and last-second loss by a team in another conference, cost the Argos. They were edged out by Christian Brothers (18-12), which beat UWF 65-64 Tin the quarterfinals of the Gulf South Conference Tournament at the CBU campus in Memphis.

The UWF women (25-6) who have matched the most wins in school history, did make the tournament field as a No. 2 seed -- highest in school history -- in the South Region of the D-2 women's basketball tournament. They will head to St. Petersburg for a first-round game Friday against Nova Southeastern.


http://www.pnj.com/story/sports/college/.../98782190/

Ah...Christian Brothers best y'all huh? Dem boys is tough. Mormon brothers are much easier to deal with. Pretty tall, but gangly with their legs and arms flopping all over and their Adam's apples are over sized. Elbow them in the Adam's apple if you cannot simply take your pointer finger to it and flick it up and down to cnfuse them.
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UWF women's basketball gets welcome reception for title

"The Argos, who had never advanced past the second game in the NCAA Tournament, were now making travel plans for the NCAA D-2 grand stage next week in Columbus, Ohio. They earned the trip with a 72-62 victory against Rollins Collins at McArthur Arena on the Eckerd College campus."


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(03-15-2017 01:35 PM)FloridaJag Wrote:  UWF women's basketball gets welcome reception for title

"The Argos, who had never advanced past the second game in the NCAA Tournament, were now making travel plans for the NCAA D-2 grand stage next week in Columbus, Ohio. They earned the trip with a 72-62 victory against Rollins Collins at McArthur Arena on the Eckerd College campus."


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Don't you mean Rollins College.
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UWF women's basketball has expanded program awareness

"UWF (28-6), seeded No. 7 in the eight-team field, is savoring its greatest season in Argos' basketball history. No UWF team had ever advanced to a region championship prior to UWF winning the South Region championship in St. Petersburg."

What: NCAA Division II Elite Eight Women's Championship Tournament

Who: California-Baptist vs. UWF

When: 1:30 p.m. Tuesday

Where: Ohio Dominican University in Columbus, Ohio

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03-21-2017 09:03 AM
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Exclamation RE: UWF to the SBC
UWF football in better place to start spring practice

"Off the field, there are other noticeable changes. Behind one end zone, the building going up that will finally give the football team its own locker room and weight room on the first floor. The Florida State University medical center branch will occupy the second floor in a joint partnership with FSU.

The building is being constructed with expansion room that will eventually include a training facility and coaches' offices when more money can be allocated.

In addition, UWF has been able to get the former intramural fields -- the area where UWF practiced its first year -- reworked. The grass is now a lush green and the mass area is now completely different than the way it looked."


http://www.pnj.com/story/sports/college/.../99504346/
04-05-2017 08:57 AM
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RE: UWF to the SBC
When is the emergency meeting for the Sun Belt Conference to rubber stamp UWF?
04-05-2017 09:22 AM
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