Updated with 2 new teams and 4 schools dropping football.

Added Minn.-Crookston and St. Cloud State to the dropped football list.

Trinity Bible College Dropping Football

Southern U. -Shreveport To Add Football


New NJCAA school adding the sport.

2020 looks like the first year.

(03-14-2020 07:24 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  Southern U. -Shreveport To Add Football


New NJCAA school adding the sport.

2020 looks like the first year.

Looks like a strange arrangement. It's hard to sort out from the article, but looks like a private organizational called "Southern Shreveport Jags" will actually run the team, be responsible for its finances (no scholarships from the university), hiring coaches, etc. while SU- Shreveport (SUSLA) provides an official affiliation for the team, and the players all have to be students in good standing at SUSLA.

But the sponsoring organization seems to be its own entity, the article says they are "bringing the football team" over from Texas A&T.

Weird .... I guess this is what goes on at the lowest dregs of college football.

(03-15-2020 11:08 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(03-14-2020 07:24 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  Southern U. -Shreveport To Add Football


New NJCAA school adding the sport.

2020 looks like the first year.

Looks like a strange arrangement. It's hard to sort out from the article, but looks like a private organizational called "Southern Shreveport Jags" will actually run the team, be responsible for its finances (no scholarships from the university), hiring coaches, etc. while SU- Shreveport (SUSLA) provides an official affiliation for the team, and the players all have to be students in good standing at SUSLA.

But the sponsoring organization seems to be its own entity, the article says they are "bringing the football team" over from Texas A&T.

Weird .... I guess this is what goes on at the lowest dregs of college football.

This is not the first to do this, but it is the first to take the name of a school. Here is an example out of NC -http://jirehprepwarriors.com/

What they normally do is put the kids in a local community college and then play a bunch of games. This is different where the students will be using the name of the college, at least as much as I can understand.

(03-15-2020 11:08 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(03-14-2020 07:24 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  Southern U. -Shreveport To Add Football


New NJCAA school adding the sport.

2020 looks like the first year.

Looks like a strange arrangement. It's hard to sort out from the article, but looks like a private organizational called "Southern Shreveport Jags" will actually run the team, be responsible for its finances (no scholarships from the university), hiring coaches, etc. while SU- Shreveport (SUSLA) provides an official affiliation for the team, and the players all have to be students in good standing at SUSLA.

But the sponsoring organization seems to be its own entity, the article says they are "bringing the football team" over from Texas A&T.

Weird .... I guess this is what goes on at the lowest dregs of college football.

Wow..I had forgotten all about Texas A&T. I remember them from a couple of years ago, but I had to look them up. It's not (or wasn't) a school. It was a prep school with online classes. It was previously known as Southeast Prep Academy. The football team was based in West Columbia, TX, south of Houston. They played a schedule in the Southwest Junior College Football Conference, and filled it out with D-III JV teams (Mary Hardin-Baylor, Louisiana College) and a game with a team from Fort Hood. The Texas A&T website is down, but the results I saw in my search showed them getting pasted by the Texas JC teams.

It looks like instead of taking classes online and playing in the Houston area, they will take classes at Southern University-Shreveport, play two home games at Independence Bowl Stadium in Shreveport, and the rest of their games on the road.

This really is the lowest dregs of college football.

(03-15-2020 03:35 PM)johnintx Wrote:  

(03-15-2020 11:08 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(03-14-2020 07:24 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  Southern U. -Shreveport To Add Football


New NJCAA school adding the sport.

2020 looks like the first year.

Looks like a strange arrangement. It's hard to sort out from the article, but looks like a private organizational called "Southern Shreveport Jags" will actually run the team, be responsible for its finances (no scholarships from the university), hiring coaches, etc. while SU- Shreveport (SUSLA) provides an official affiliation for the team, and the players all have to be students in good standing at SUSLA.

But the sponsoring organization seems to be its own entity, the article says they are "bringing the football team" over from Texas A&T.

Weird .... I guess this is what goes on at the lowest dregs of college football.

Wow..I had forgotten all about Texas A&T. I remember them from a couple of years ago, but I had to look them up. It's not (or wasn't) a school. It was a prep school with online classes. It was previously known as Southeast Prep Academy. The football team was based in West Columbia, TX, south of Houston. They played a schedule in the Southwest Junior College Football Conference, and filled it out with D-III JV teams (Mary Hardin-Baylor, Louisiana College) and a game with a team from Fort Hood. The Texas A&T website is down, but the results I saw in my search showed them getting pasted by the Texas JC teams.

It looks like instead of taking classes online and playing in the Houston area, they will take classes at Southern University-Shreveport, play two home games at Independence Bowl Stadium in Shreveport, and the rest of their games on the road.

This really is the lowest dregs of college football.

Yes, now that the football team has moved to SU-Shreveport, I doubt anything is actually left of "Texas A&T".

This is taking the idea of "the school exists to have a football team" to its logically absurd conclusion, LOL.

As I work for SU - Baton Rouge, I can assure you that SU - Shreveport is an actual school, it's a junior college that is part of the Southern University system, which is part of the State of Louisiana government system of higher education. But the "SU Jags" website says:

"The Southern Shreveport Jags will attend class on the campus of Southern University Shreveport (SUSLA)."

Which again suggests a kind of separate entity, not really a part of the school. I just don't know.

https://www.ssjagsfootball.com/teams/?u=...s=football

(03-15-2020 03:58 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  Yes, now that the football team has moved to SU-Shreveport, I doubt anything is actually left of "Texas A&T".

This is taking the idea of "the school exists to have a football team" to its logically absurd conclusion, LOL.

As I work for SU - Baton Rouge, I can assure you that SU - Shreveport is an actual school, it's a junior college that is part of the Southern University system, which is part of the State of Louisiana government system of higher education. But the "SU Jags" website says:

"The Southern Shreveport Jags will attend class on the campus of Southern University Shreveport (SUSLA)."

Which again suggests a kind of separate entity, not really a part of the school. I just don't know.

https://www.ssjagsfootball.com/teams/?u=...s=football

I knew SU-Shreveport was a school...I actually thought it was a four-year school.

This looks like a football team that offered itself to a school. Kind of like a club team, I guess.

Texas A&T was actually labeled as the same as College of Faith, University of Faith, Redemption, Gods Chosen and others. University of Faith in Charlotte is now an actual Junior College under a new name of a college based deal out of California that brought new JC teams in Arizona who students are enrolled at the local JCs. They are applying for NJCAA status for all the schools they have sports in from Arizona (8), California (6), Texas (5), Tennessee (1), Alabama (1), Georgia (2), Florida (2), South Carolina (1), North Carolina (2) and Virginia (2). Have not seen any news that they got accepted in the NJCAAs yet, but a couple of the California schools are 4 year schools that could go NAIA. That group brought Arizona new football teams after all the NJCAA schools in the state dropped the sport.

St. Michael's (Canada) College Committee Wants Football Reinstated


Did not see this one before. Football was dropped after some players involved in a rape scandal.

(04-17-2020 04:03 AM)DavidSt Wrote:  St. Michael's (Canada) College Committee Wants Football Reinstated


Did not see this one before. Football was dropped after some players involved in a rape scandal.

That's a high school.

(04-17-2020 09:12 AM)ccd494 Wrote:  

(04-17-2020 04:03 AM)DavidSt Wrote:  St. Michael's (Canada) College Committee Wants Football Reinstated


Did not see this one before. Football was dropped after some players involved in a rape scandal.

That's a high school.

It's ok. They'll find a way to become D1. Right David?

MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Illinois will be closing at the end of the spring semester. They were apart of the UMAC for D3.

https://wgem.com/2020/03/27/macmurray-co...rmanently/

(04-18-2020 04:17 PM)pmg24 Wrote:  MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Illinois will be closing at the end of the spring semester. They were apart of the UMAC for D3.

https://wgem.com/2020/03/27/macmurray-co...rmanently/

almost two centuries of existence, & then *poof*

hard to see happen, but understandable, especially in light of current circumstances

Just updated Urbana.

Florida Tech has officially cut their football program.

Updated to add Community Christian College will be starting football this fall if they can.

College of the Redwoods Suspends Football

Finacial reasons, but never said it is gone completely, but it may return in the future after a few years after getting their financials in order.

Bluefield State College (NCAA D2 - Independent) in Bluefield, WV is adding football and 11 other sports for 2021-2022. To avoid confusion; this is not Bluefield College (NAIA - Appalachian Athletic Conference) on the other side of the state line in Bluefield, VA. Bluefield State College is a public HBCU while Bluefield College is a private Baptist, the campuses are 2.5 miles apart.

Bluefield State to add 12 New Sports






COULD they be making a move to the AAC in the future.