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(11-07-2018 11:36 AM)Wedge Wrote:  
(11-07-2018 03:32 AM)AZcats Wrote:  How much access does CSUDH have to the stadium; is it unlimited?

The school's website says that they get to use the stadium for graduation ceremonies, and that the money they get from the stadium is a help to the school. That's all I saw. I assume they also get rent from US Soccer and the USOC for their use of the stadium and training facilities, and the velodrome that is also on their campus.

There's no mention there of the university using the stadium for any athletic events. Not that they'd need to for D-II soccer games. Or want to, for that matter, because just the security and cleaning costs for using a stadium of that size, that has to be kept clean for MLS and NFL games, wouldn't make sense for a small D-II athletic department.

Thanks, looks like a nice mutually beneficial business arrangement. I did look at the CSUDH men's soccer schedules for the last 5 seasons and they play almost all games at their on-campus soccer/t&f stadium. They did play 1 game at the StubHub Main Stadium and 1 or 2 games at StubHub Field #3 each season.
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(11-07-2018 12:02 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  How do you get more people to go to the soccer games? Adding sports and going D1 could also benefit the Galaxy as well. Attracting more people could mean potential fans going to the Galaxy games.

It looks like the LA Galaxy is doing a good job of attracting fans to the stadium. The average attendance this year is 24,957 which is 92.4% of capacity. At least 2 games had attendance above capacity.
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RE: The WAC is looking at bringing back football (FCS)
(11-07-2018 01:21 PM)AZcats Wrote:  
(11-07-2018 11:36 AM)Wedge Wrote:  
(11-07-2018 03:32 AM)AZcats Wrote:  How much access does CSUDH have to the stadium; is it unlimited?

The school's website says that they get to use the stadium for graduation ceremonies, and that the money they get from the stadium is a help to the school. That's all I saw. I assume they also get rent from US Soccer and the USOC for their use of the stadium and training facilities, and the velodrome that is also on their campus.

There's no mention there of the university using the stadium for any athletic events. Not that they'd need to for D-II soccer games. Or want to, for that matter, because just the security and cleaning costs for using a stadium of that size, that has to be kept clean for MLS and NFL games, wouldn't make sense for a small D-II athletic department.

Thanks, looks like a nice mutually beneficial business arrangement. I did look at the CSUDH men's soccer schedules for the last 5 seasons and they play almost all games at their on-campus soccer/t&f stadium. They did play 1 game at the StubHub Main Stadium and 1 or 2 games at StubHub Field #3 each season.

This is a good idea for CSUDH -- there are several fields there, the Galaxy has junior teams and a USL team that use the other fields, and US Soccer trains there sometimes, those are good fields that they can use at a much lower maintenance cost than the big stadium.
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(10-31-2018 11:39 AM)Jjoey52 Wrote:  
(10-31-2018 11:15 AM)TardisCaptain Wrote:  D2 football move ups:
Dixie State
Tarleton State
Azusa Pacific

That's a start.

UT-RGV has been exploring the possibility of adding football. FCS is better for a startup than jumping straight to FBS.

UVU originally wanted to add football when they were looking to get out of the Great West Conference. They haven't been very relevant in Utah. Adding football would get them some headlines.

You only need six teams for an FCS league. 1-2 more D2 teams? Another current school or two adds football (who?) Entice a team over from another conference?
Due to the fact UVU is literally a block from BYU, probably eliminates them from starting football.

They're close, but it's actually about 3.5 miles. UVU is in Orem; BYU is in Provo.

UVU should start football. It's the biggest school in the state with over 37K students. And, much better located for a potential fan base than Utah State - it's actually in the Salt Lake-Provo-Orem metro area.
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(11-06-2018 07:52 PM)AZcats Wrote:  
(11-06-2018 11:58 AM)DavidSt Wrote:  We have to look at schools that have spent money upgrading their facilities. ...

Facility improvements is not an indication of the ability or desire to go D1.
I believe what DavidSt means is "If we wish to make idle, baseless speculations about D2 schools moving up with some facts to provide a superficial veneer of plausibility for those who do not know anything about these schools, we have to look at schools that have spent money upgrading their facilities."

And to be fair, that IS quite a mouthful, and saying it out loud would make the rest of the comment look like idle and baseless speculation, so perhaps its understandable to skip past that lengthy prelude and cut to the chase.
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The WAC is looking at bringing back football (FCS)
(11-07-2018 04:33 PM)YNot Wrote:  
(10-31-2018 11:39 AM)Jjoey52 Wrote:  
(10-31-2018 11:15 AM)TardisCaptain Wrote:  D2 football move ups:
Dixie State
Tarleton State
Azusa Pacific

That's a start.

UT-RGV has been exploring the possibility of adding football. FCS is better for a startup than jumping straight to FBS.

UVU originally wanted to add football when they were looking to get out of the Great West Conference. They haven't been very relevant in Utah. Adding football would get them some headlines.

You only need six teams for an FCS league. 1-2 more D2 teams? Another current school or two adds football (who?) Entice a team over from another conference?
Due to the fact UVU is literally a block from BYU, probably eliminates them from starting football.

They're close, but it's actually about 3.5 miles. UVU is in Orem; BYU is in Provo.

UVU should start football. It's the biggest school in the state with over 37K students. And, much better located for a potential fan base than Utah State - it's actually in the Salt Lake-Provo-Orem metro area.


There is no way that UVU starts a football program as long as BYU has one. If the Mormon church does away with BYU athletics it would be very viable, with a 60k stadium just up the street, but until that day comes UVU will not have football.


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(11-08-2018 12:24 AM)Jjoey52 Wrote:  
(11-07-2018 04:33 PM)YNot Wrote:  
(10-31-2018 11:39 AM)Jjoey52 Wrote:  
(10-31-2018 11:15 AM)TardisCaptain Wrote:  D2 football move ups:
Dixie State
Tarleton State
Azusa Pacific

That's a start.

UT-RGV has been exploring the possibility of adding football. FCS is better for a startup than jumping straight to FBS.

UVU originally wanted to add football when they were looking to get out of the Great West Conference. They haven't been very relevant in Utah. Adding football would get them some headlines.

You only need six teams for an FCS league. 1-2 more D2 teams? Another current school or two adds football (who?) Entice a team over from another conference?
Due to the fact UVU is literally a block from BYU, probably eliminates them from starting football.

They're close, but it's actually about 3.5 miles. UVU is in Orem; BYU is in Provo.

UVU should start football. It's the biggest school in the state with over 37K students. And, much better located for a potential fan base than Utah State - it's actually in the Salt Lake-Provo-Orem metro area.


There is no way that UVU starts a football program as long as BYU has one. If the Mormon church does away with BYU athletics it would be very viable, with a 60k stadium just up the street, but until that day comes UVU will not have football.


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Idaho, Eastern Michigan and Georgia State would disagree that having a well supported football program that close by is a detriment.
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(11-08-2018 10:29 AM)arkstfan Wrote:  
(11-08-2018 12:24 AM)Jjoey52 Wrote:  
(11-07-2018 04:33 PM)YNot Wrote:  
(10-31-2018 11:39 AM)Jjoey52 Wrote:  
(10-31-2018 11:15 AM)TardisCaptain Wrote:  D2 football move ups:
Dixie State
Tarleton State
Azusa Pacific

That's a start.

UT-RGV has been exploring the possibility of adding football. FCS is better for a startup than jumping straight to FBS.

UVU originally wanted to add football when they were looking to get out of the Great West Conference. They haven't been very relevant in Utah. Adding football would get them some headlines.

You only need six teams for an FCS league. 1-2 more D2 teams? Another current school or two adds football (who?) Entice a team over from another conference?
Due to the fact UVU is literally a block from BYU, probably eliminates them from starting football.

They're close, but it's actually about 3.5 miles. UVU is in Orem; BYU is in Provo.

UVU should start football. It's the biggest school in the state with over 37K students. And, much better located for a potential fan base than Utah State - it's actually in the Salt Lake-Provo-Orem metro area.


There is no way that UVU starts a football program as long as BYU has one. If the Mormon church does away with BYU athletics it would be very viable, with a 60k stadium just up the street, but until that day comes UVU will not have football.


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Idaho, Eastern Michigan and Georgia State would disagree that having a well supported football program that close by is a detriment.

Except for the fact that Idaho started their football program before Washington State did and Eastern Michigan has been playing football since 1892, you may have a point.
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Central Washington's Future Could Be D1

This is an opinion piece, but I could see a possible football alliance between the WAC and Big Sky schools in the future. CWU have already been scheduling Big Sky schools in recent years. Along with Dixie State? it could help cut down traveling costs between California and Montana schools. CWU used to be rivals against Portland State and Eastern Washington when all three were in the same conference in D2.
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(11-08-2018 12:24 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  Central Washington's Future Could Be D1

This is an opinion piece, but I could see a possible football alliance between the WAC and Big Sky schools in the future. CWU have already been scheduling Big Sky schools in recent years. Along with Dixie State? it could help cut down traveling costs between California and Montana schools. CWU used to be rivals against Portland State and Eastern Washington when all three were in the same conference in D2.

CWU plays Big Sky schools because that is the only FCS conference in the west, they are wanting to play a full 11-game schedule, and the games provide a much needed paycheck to CWU.

Colorado Mines used to be conference rivals against Colorado but that doesn't mean the Orediggers have a chance at ever joining the PAC-12.
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(11-08-2018 09:14 PM)AZcats Wrote:  
(11-08-2018 12:24 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  Central Washington's Future Could Be D1

This is an opinion piece, but I could see a possible football alliance between the WAC and Big Sky schools in the future. CWU have already been scheduling Big Sky schools in recent years. Along with Dixie State? it could help cut down traveling costs between California and Montana schools. CWU used to be rivals against Portland State and Eastern Washington when all three were in the same conference in D2.

CWU plays Big Sky schools because that is the only FCS conference in the west, they are wanting to play a full 11-game schedule, and the games provide a much needed paycheck to CWU.

Colorado Mines used to be conference rivals against Colorado but that doesn't mean the Orediggers have a chance at ever joining the PAC-12.

Doesn't matter to David. He will still believe that if a program currently in a lower division once played against major programs, even as far back as 100 years ago, then they deserve to be Division 1 because of that.
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RE: The WAC is looking at bringing back football (FCS)
(11-08-2018 10:00 PM)seaking4steel Wrote:  
(11-08-2018 09:14 PM)AZcats Wrote:  
(11-08-2018 12:24 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  Central Washington's Future Could Be D1

This is an opinion piece, but I could see a possible football alliance between the WAC and Big Sky schools in the future. CWU have already been scheduling Big Sky schools in recent years. Along with Dixie State? it could help cut down traveling costs between California and Montana schools. CWU used to be rivals against Portland State and Eastern Washington when all three were in the same conference in D2.

CWU plays Big Sky schools because that is the only FCS conference in the west, they are wanting to play a full 11-game schedule, and the games provide a much needed paycheck to CWU.

Colorado Mines used to be conference rivals against Colorado but that doesn't mean the Orediggers have a chance at ever joining the PAC-12.

Doesn't matter to David. He will still believe that if a program currently in a lower division once played against major programs, even as far back as 100 years ago, then they deserve to be Division 1 because of that.

Actually, it does not matter to him what the make up of the school is or anything. Any school of any division, with any enrollment is D1 material. All they need is a big donor or a merger with another school. According to him, anything COULD happen.
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(11-08-2018 10:29 AM)arkstfan Wrote:  Idaho, Eastern Michigan and Georgia State would disagree that having a well supported football program that close by is a detriment.
But when officials of Eastern Michigan "disagree" with that statement, they are simply putting on a brave front. It's obvious to any close observers of Eastern Michigan football that being in the shadow of the Big House is a major detriment.

Though, as noted above, it's not as if the Big House existed in its current form when Eastern Michigan started playing football.

Now, there is no substantial upgrade in BBall on offer if Eastern Michigan were to drop football and leave the MAC, and That School Up North casts BBall recruiting and local media profile shadows as well as the deep and dark FB recruiting and local media profile shadows, so its not like dropping FB is Eastern Michigan's golden road to BBall success.

But if the Big House was next to Western Michigan, Eastern Michigan would be in a much better position to leverage its proximity to Detroit and NW Ohio.
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Simon Fraiser, Central Washington, and Azusa Pacific are all in a tight spot regarding their D2 football.

Ideally the last 4 teams in GNAC would get invited to another D2 conference for football but if they can't maybe FCS wouldn't be a bad option.
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(11-09-2018 09:52 AM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  Simon Fraiser, Central Washington, and Azusa Pacific are all in a tight spot regarding their D2 football.

Ideally the last 4 teams in GNAC would get invited to another D2 conference for football but if they can't maybe FCS wouldn't be a bad option.


Both Simon Fraser and Minot State are looking to join D1 for men's hockey.

Does anybody know why Colorado Mesa just listed their Men's Hockey as an emerging sport? They play as a club team. Could they going upgrade it to D1 varsity and add a women's team? Colo. Mesa already sponsor 23 sports.
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(11-09-2018 12:23 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  
(11-09-2018 09:52 AM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  Simon Fraiser, Central Washington, and Azusa Pacific are all in a tight spot regarding their D2 football.

Ideally the last 4 teams in GNAC would get invited to another D2 conference for football but if they can't maybe FCS wouldn't be a bad option.


Both Simon Fraser and Minot State are looking to join D1 for men's hockey.

Does anybody know why Colorado Mesa just listed their Men's Hockey as an emerging sport? They play as a club team. Could they going upgrade it to D1 varsity and add a women's team? Colo. Mesa already sponsor 23 sports.

Has there been any new press about Minot State and Simon Fraser adding varsity hockey since the purely speculative USCHO article over 2 years ago? Has D1 changed their rules yet to allow international membership?

If you would provide the link to what you are asking about then maybe you could get an answer. Based on the primary source, which would be the school's athletic website, Men's Ice Hockey is a standard club team and a member of the ACHA.

And, what does this have to do with WAC bringing back FCS football?
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The WAC is looking at bringing back football (FCS)
(11-09-2018 02:42 PM)AZcats Wrote:  
(11-09-2018 12:23 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  
(11-09-2018 09:52 AM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  Simon Fraiser, Central Washington, and Azusa Pacific are all in a tight spot regarding their D2 football.

Ideally the last 4 teams in GNAC would get invited to another D2 conference for football but if they can't maybe FCS wouldn't be a bad option.


Both Simon Fraser and Minot State are looking to join D1 for men's hockey.

Does anybody know why Colorado Mesa just listed their Men's Hockey as an emerging sport? They play as a club team. Could they going upgrade it to D1 varsity and add a women's team? Colo. Mesa already sponsor 23 sports.

Has there been any new press about Minot State and Simon Fraser adding varsity hockey since the purely speculative USCHO article over 2 years ago? Has D1 changed their rules yet to allow international membership?

If you would provide the link to what you are asking about then maybe you could get an answer. Based on the primary source, which would be the school's athletic website, Men's Ice Hockey is a standard club team and a member of the ACHA.

And, what does this have to do with WAC bringing back FCS football?


David thinks that because they form a club hockey team means they are looking at D1 for football.


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RE: The WAC is looking at bringing back football (FCS)
(11-09-2018 08:54 PM)Jjoey52 Wrote:  
(11-09-2018 02:42 PM)AZcats Wrote:  
(11-09-2018 12:23 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  
(11-09-2018 09:52 AM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  Simon Fraiser, Central Washington, and Azusa Pacific are all in a tight spot regarding their D2 football.

Ideally the last 4 teams in GNAC would get invited to another D2 conference for football but if they can't maybe FCS wouldn't be a bad option.


Both Simon Fraser and Minot State are looking to join D1 for men's hockey.

Does anybody know why Colorado Mesa just listed their Men's Hockey as an emerging sport? They play as a club team. Could they going upgrade it to D1 varsity and add a women's team? Colo. Mesa already sponsor 23 sports.

Has there been any new press about Minot State and Simon Fraser adding varsity hockey since the purely speculative USCHO article over 2 years ago? Has D1 changed their rules yet to allow international membership?

If you would provide the link to what you are asking about then maybe you could get an answer. Based on the primary source, which would be the school's athletic website, Men's Ice Hockey is a standard club team and a member of the ACHA.

And, what does this have to do with WAC bringing back FCS football?


David thinks that because they form a club hockey team means they are looking at D1 for football.


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I am looking at this because some of the sports listed as club but are under a different organization like the skiing and rodeo are not NCAA sports. Those athletes do get scholarships which are not under NCAA rules. Some schools like Central Washington sponsors both men and women's rugby. That is an emerging sport for NCAA to look at in the future. On another site and not CMU, did not have men's hockey as an emerging sport earlier this year. There have been talks about schools who have club hockey going varsity. There had been several women's club hockey teams already went to varsity the past couple of years. Women's wrestling was listed last year for CMU as an emerging sport, and CMU added it earlier this year as a sport for number 23. If CMU do add men's hockey as a varsity sport? Colorado Mesa also have men and women's rugby listed as an emerging sport.

As for CWU? I do think WAC could actually sponsor rugby once NCAA makes it a championship sport. You could actually get into Title 9 compliance since rugby cost less than golf or tennis, and you could fill a large women's team.
CWU sponsors 13 sports, but men and women's rugby is not sanction yet for the NCAAs.
CWU's offer:
Men's:
baseball
basketball
cross country
track
rugby

women's:
basketball
cross country
rugby
soccer
softball
track
volleyball

Looking at what they could add?
M/W golf
men's hockey
W LAX
W swimming and diving
W tennis
W wrestling
beach volleyball
W water polo

They do have options.

WAC schools that have rugby teams?
Men's:
Grand Canyon
Utah Valley
New Mexico State
UMKC
add:
Colorado Mesa
Azusa Pacific
Western Washington
Central Washington
Dixie State

(UMKC could go back to Summit League for rugby and all sports.)

affiliates:
Western Oregon (grandfather in.)
San Francisco
San Diego
St. Mary's
Pacific
Gonzaga


D2 schools in the WAC footprint.
Angelo State
Chico State
Colorado Mines
Humboldt State
Midwestern State
Regis
San Francisco State
Sonoma State

Big West, Big Sky and WAC could grandfather the men's rugby as a single sport in the west.

Women's:
Seattle U.

Now if we combined all the west coast women's teams outside of the PAC 12, you will get this.

Air Force MWC
BYU WCC
Fullerton State Big West
Long Beach State Big West
Northridge State Big West
Colorado State MWC
Denver Summit
E. Washington Big Sky
Fresno State MWC
Idaho Big Sky
Idaho State Big Sky
Montana State big Sky
UNR MWC
Portland State Big Sky
Sacramento State Big Sky
Seattle U. WAC
UC-Davis Big West
UC-Irvine Big West
UC-Riverside Big West
UC-San Diego Big West
UC-Santa Barbara Big West
San Francisco WCC
Utah State MWC
Weber State Big Sky
Wyoming MWC
Central Washington D2/WAC
Chico State D2
Colorado Mines D2
Humboldt State D2
Colorado Mesa D2/WAC
Western Oregon D2
Western Washington D2/WAC

You could split the Western Women's Rugby into regions.
Northwest-Washington/Oregon/Nevada
California-California
North-Idaho/Montana/Wyoming
Rockies-Colorado/Utah future Arizona/New Mexico/West Texas/UNLV

This could get WAC be a front runner for Rugby when it becomes a NCAA sanction sport.
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(11-10-2018 04:45 AM)DavidSt Wrote:  
(11-09-2018 08:54 PM)Jjoey52 Wrote:  
(11-09-2018 02:42 PM)AZcats Wrote:  
(11-09-2018 12:23 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  
(11-09-2018 09:52 AM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  Simon Fraiser, Central Washington, and Azusa Pacific are all in a tight spot regarding their D2 football.

Ideally the last 4 teams in GNAC would get invited to another D2 conference for football but if they can't maybe FCS wouldn't be a bad option.


Both Simon Fraser and Minot State are looking to join D1 for men's hockey.

Does anybody know why Colorado Mesa just listed their Men's Hockey as an emerging sport? They play as a club team. Could they going upgrade it to D1 varsity and add a women's team? Colo. Mesa already sponsor 23 sports.

Has there been any new press about Minot State and Simon Fraser adding varsity hockey since the purely speculative USCHO article over 2 years ago? Has D1 changed their rules yet to allow international membership?

If you would provide the link to what you are asking about then maybe you could get an answer. Based on the primary source, which would be the school's athletic website, Men's Ice Hockey is a standard club team and a member of the ACHA.

And, what does this have to do with WAC bringing back FCS football?


David thinks that because they form a club hockey team means they are looking at D1 for football.


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I am looking at this because some of the sports listed as club but are under a different organization like the skiing and rodeo are not NCAA sports. Those athletes do get scholarships which are not under NCAA rules. Some schools like Central Washington sponsors both men and women's rugby. That is an emerging sport for NCAA to look at in the future. On another site and not CMU, did not have men's hockey as an emerging sport earlier this year. There have been talks about schools who have club hockey going varsity. There had been several women's club hockey teams already went to varsity the past couple of years. Women's wrestling was listed last year for CMU as an emerging sport, and CMU added it earlier this year as a sport for number 23. If CMU do add men's hockey as a varsity sport? Colorado Mesa also have men and women's rugby listed as an emerging sport.

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So much is wrong with this, it's not worth the effort.

A lot of things could happen.

Again, how is any of this relevant to the WAC bringing back FCS football? Could that question actually be answered?
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RE: The WAC is looking at bringing back football (FCS)
(11-07-2018 02:04 PM)Wedge Wrote:  
(11-07-2018 01:21 PM)AZcats Wrote:  
(11-07-2018 11:36 AM)Wedge Wrote:  
(11-07-2018 03:32 AM)AZcats Wrote:  How much access does CSUDH have to the stadium; is it unlimited?

The school's website says that they get to use the stadium for graduation ceremonies, and that the money they get from the stadium is a help to the school. That's all I saw. I assume they also get rent from US Soccer and the USOC for their use of the stadium and training facilities, and the velodrome that is also on their campus.

There's no mention there of the university using the stadium for any athletic events. Not that they'd need to for D-II soccer games. Or want to, for that matter, because just the security and cleaning costs for using a stadium of that size, that has to be kept clean for MLS and NFL games, wouldn't make sense for a small D-II athletic department.

Thanks, looks like a nice mutually beneficial business arrangement. I did look at the CSUDH men's soccer schedules for the last 5 seasons and they play almost all games at their on-campus soccer/t&f stadium. They did play 1 game at the StubHub Main Stadium and 1 or 2 games at StubHub Field #3 each season.

This is a good idea for CSUDH -- there are several fields there, the Galaxy has junior teams and a USL team that use the other fields, and US Soccer trains there sometimes, those are good fields that they can use at a much lower maintenance cost than the big stadium.

Anyone that walks through the CSUDH campus will think that this looks more like a community college campus. Enrollment at the school is growing and they have a fair amount of undeveloped land, but this school has a litany of needs that would come before any consideration of D1 athletics or football.
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