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Will Corona Virus be an impetus for D2 and D3 schools to shutter athletics?
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RE: Will Corona Virus be an impetus for D2 and D3 schools to shutter athletics?
(04-13-2020 09:43 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  
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(04-13-2020 08:22 PM)AZcats Wrote:  https://humboldtsports.com/2020/04/11/ed...community/

Quote:In short, the drastic enrollment problems HSU is facing this fall are compounded by having no football team at the school.

Humboldt State enrollment is declining partly because of no football. The current situation isn't doing them any favors either.

Real good read, basically they need something, an identity, to draw students in and are seeing that Football might have been the identity they already had.

They dropped football to begin with because it and the school were bleeding out:

http://now.humboldt.edu/news/hsu-to-disc...18-season/

And it made no sense for them. They are too small for Div. I and there are very few Division II fb programs west of the Rockies.
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RE: Will Corona Virus be an impetus for D2 and D3 schools to shutter athletics?
the Denver campus (transitioning into D3) and the North Miami campus (NAIA) of Johnson & Wales closing next summer.

http://www.providencejournal.com/news/20...a-colorado
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RE: Will Corona Virus be an impetus for D2 and D3 schools to shutter athletics?
(06-22-2020 02:46 PM)AZcats Wrote:  This thread was concerned about how smaller schools would handle athletics, but it seems it should have been more concerned with the D1 schools. According to the linked article as of this posting date; 12 D1 schools have dropped sports (not including the reinstated Bowling Green Baseball) while a total of 12 combined D2, D3, and NAIA schools have dropped sports (including D2 Seattle Pacific dropping D1 sport Women's Gymnastics which is not in the article).

The article does list seven D2, D3, and NAIA schools as closing but Concordia-Portland made their announcement in February and Lindenwood-Belleville was announced in May 2019. Of the other five schools, it's very possible that they were going to close anyway and the virus just sped up the timeline.

https://hoopdirt.com/the-updated-list-co...ls-closed/

Some Colleges Are Closing Permanently Because of the Coronavirus Pandemic

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/colleges...s-pandemic
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RE: Will Corona Virus be an impetus for D2 and D3 schools to shutter athletics?
(06-22-2020 02:56 PM)bullet Wrote:  
(04-13-2020 09:43 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  
(04-13-2020 09:12 PM)spenser Wrote:  
(04-13-2020 08:22 PM)AZcats Wrote:  https://humboldtsports.com/2020/04/11/ed...community/

Quote:In short, the drastic enrollment problems HSU is facing this fall are compounded by having no football team at the school.

Humboldt State enrollment is declining partly because of no football. The current situation isn't doing them any favors either.

Real good read, basically they need something, an identity, to draw students in and are seeing that Football might have been the identity they already had.

They dropped football to begin with because it and the school were bleeding out:

http://now.humboldt.edu/news/hsu-to-disc...18-season/

And it made no sense for them. They are too small for Div. I and there are very few Division II fb programs west of the Rockies.

The school is in a very remote area. There are only about 200,000 people in northwest California, and they are far from any significant population centers. They are over 5 hours from either Sacramento or San Francisco and 7 hours from Portland. Those are the reasons they have enrollment challenges.
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