Mister Consistency
Special Teams
Posts: 778
Joined: Dec 2010
Reputation: 15
I Root For: ETSU
Location: Johnson City, TN
|
RE: Utah and D1
(09-17-2019 05:23 PM)CitrusUCF Wrote: With Dixie State moving to D1 in the WAC, is Utah the only state with more than three universities where every four-year public school is in D1?
If you look only at states with 1-3 institutions, then Arizona, Delaware and Wyoming qualify. I'm not aware of any others. Utah will be at 6, so more than double the next state up.
This is the case in Tennessee, as well. ETSU, UTC, UTK, Tech, MTSU, TSU, Austin Peay, UTM, Memphis. All the non-D1s are private.
|
|
09-20-2019 11:18 PM |
|
whittx
All American
Posts: 2,703
Joined: Apr 2016
Reputation: 122
I Root For: FSU, Bport,Corn
Location:
|
RE: Utah and D1
(09-18-2019 05:16 PM)CitrusUCF Wrote: (09-18-2019 08:46 AM)Captain Bearcat Wrote: This isn't a huge surprise. Most 4-year public schools are D-1 unless they're branch campuses.
Ohio has 13 public schools. 11 are D1, 1 is D2, and 1 is NAIA.
Illinois has 12 public schools. 9 are D1, 1 is D2, 1 is NAIA, and 1 has no sports.
Indiana has 5 public schools. 4 are D1 and 1 is D2. Also of the 9 branch campuses, 2 are D1, 1 is D2, 5 are NAIA, and 1 is brand new (IU-Fort Wayne just split from IUPFW last year & hasn't established athletics yet to my knowledge).
D2 has a lot of public schools that aren't branch campuses. Lots of states have small publics under 10k students and lots are to be found in D2.
(09-18-2019 09:43 AM)billybobby777 Wrote: (09-17-2019 08:09 PM)TodgeRodge Wrote: (09-17-2019 07:40 PM)Nerdlinger Wrote: I may be wrong, but it looks like all 9 of Tennessee's 4-year public schools are DI.
Iowa has all 3 of its 4-year public schools in DI.
Nevada has 2 of its 4-year public schools in DI, but the other 2 don't seem to have varsity athletics, so I don't know if you want to count that.
what is the 4th public university in Iowa? I have only ever seen 3 listed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co...iversities
No doubt he made an error and counted Drake as #4.
When I thought through my original post, I thought about Iowa but thought that Upper Iowa was public and didn't verify it.
(09-18-2019 04:48 PM)whittx Wrote: Florida has only one non-D1 4 year state school with athletics (West Florida). Florida Poly has no sports.
Don't forget New College, also with no athletics. New College will never order athletics, and I'd be surprised if Poly does anytime in the next 10-15 years. At some point they may grow to the point of being in NAIA or maybe the D2 Sunshine Conference. NAIA is probably the better fit simply because there's not a D3 conference that would work for them, while NAIA and D2 have Florida-based options.
I live near Sarasota. I don't count New College in anything, since it's so small. You're more likely to see the USF branch campuses or FSU-PC adding NAIA athletics.
|
|
09-21-2019 05:22 AM |
|