(04-02-2022 09:42 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  

(04-02-2022 09:11 PM)AZcats Wrote:  

(04-02-2022 05:54 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  

(04-02-2022 02:29 AM)Inkblot Wrote:  In the last two decades, the NYC and Philadelphia areas have lost seven D2 programs (Cheyney, Concordia, Dowling, LIU Post, New York Tech, Southampton, USciences) to closures, athletic suspensions, athletic mergers, or full mergers. Bloomfield would make it eight.

You also have a school in D2 in Conneticutt talking about a merger, you have the D3 school in Deleware merged with Deleware State, and several schools closed or merged in Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts.

The acquisition of Bridgeport was completed a year ago. Their plan to merge with Marlboro College ended 3 years ago and never happened.

New Haven has an eye on D1.

Post (for-profit) acquired a Denver based for-profit medical school a year ago.

Southern Connecticut State is part of the Connecticut State University System.

Those are the Connecticut D2 schools; which one is currently involved in merger talks.

Bridgeport, and they sold off their soccer field that used to had football to the city to host high school football and all that. Bridgeport is still not out of the woods yet.

Really; what do I see marked as campus facility #25 on the University of Bridgeport campus map? A facility used by the Purple Knights soccer teams in the fall 2021 season, currently being used by the women's lacrosse team, and will be used by the new men's lacrosse team that begins play in the spring 2023 season. Speaking of new teams; UB may still be having some difficulties but they have to have money coming from somewhere in order to be able to start 5 NCAA teams and some club teams in 2022-23. So, who is Bridgeport currently talking to about a merger?