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Eight Colleges Going Division 1

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RUChoppin

Heisman
Dec 1, 2006
19,270
13,695
0
A few of them have been hitting up the portal to help the transition.

California Baptist has picked up Pavel Zakharov (7-0, 235, So.) from Gonzaga and Hunter Chance (6-6, 190, RS Jr) from Long Beach State.

St. Thomas has picked up Courtney Brown (6-7, 213, Jr) from Milwuakee and J'Vonne Hadley (6-6, 200, Fr) from Northeastern.

Merrimack picked up Tavon Jones (6-3, 180, Jr) from Northern Illinois.
 
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RUChoppin

Heisman
Dec 1, 2006
19,270
13,695
0
That will bring us up to three teams with San Diego in their name...... San Diego State, San Diego, and UC San Diego.
 
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HeavenUniv.

Heisman
Sep 21, 2004
135,536
16,404
0
Mr Twister, yes, all sports. Saint Thomas was so good in their Division 3 conference that the league kicked them out lol
 
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ecojew

All-Conference
Feb 1, 2006
9,767
2,271
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They didn't play football, I assume, since it wasn't mentioned in the article. That would have been the obvious sport to drop since it costs so much.

Hartford has a beautiful campus. I didn't realize that it has 7000 students - that is Hofstra's size but Hofstra always seemed larger to me. I'm wondering what they gain by dropping all sports down. If basketball doesn't lose money, why not keep them at D1? They already have a conference with an auto-bid and are in a city that has TV stations so they likely get more local coverage than we do, with our "local" channels being in NYC and Philly, where they have to devote nearly all of their time on their pro teams.
 
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NickRU714

Heisman
Aug 18, 2009
14,084
12,886
113
Don't these schools know that the Transfer Portal, NIL and "1 free transfer" is making Div-1A obsolete except for the top 9 teams?

Everyone else is dropping all sports or moving to 1-AA.

Clearly they haven't seen all the "sky is falling" threads on this board about those topics.
 
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HeavenUniv.

Heisman
Sep 21, 2004
135,536
16,404
0
Without looking them up, how many of these did you know existed or what states some of them were in. The only reason I knew about Saint Thomas was because they are a pretty good hockey school.
 
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Knights 1212

All-American
Sep 9, 2003
27,558
8,493
113
Tavon Jones never played a game at Northern Illinois as he had a knee operation. He played 2 years at Odessa Juco in Texas and now will join two other former 1000 point scorers from Linden at Merrimack in Mikey Watkins and Khalif Crawford. I hope he does well. He made first team All State twice at Linden.
 
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mikeinsec127

Junior
Feb 24, 2003
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ecojew said:
They didn't play football, I assume, since it wasn't mentioned in the article. That would have been the obvious sport to drop since it costs so much.

Hartford has a beautiful campus. I didn't realize that it has 7000 students - that is Hofstra's size but Hofstra always seemed larger to me. I'm wondering what they gain by dropping all sports down. If basketball doesn't lose money, why not keep them at D1? They already have a conference with an auto-bid and are in a city that has TV stations so they likely get more local coverage than we do, with our "local" channels being in NYC and Philly, where they have to devote nearly all of their time on their pro teams.
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In order to stay at D1, the college has to sponsor a minimum number of sports at the D1 level. I think it is 12. So a school can't just keep basketball at D1 and move all the others down. Same for Football, which Hartford does not have and America East does not sponsor.
 
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littlenis5

All-Conference
Jun 21, 2004
1,489
1,032
113
It’s crazy to me that during a time where most colleges seem to be struggling financially, they are trying to transition to D1. I can’t imagine these schools posting a gain on big time sports
 
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HeavenUniv.

Heisman
Sep 21, 2004
135,536
16,404
0
I believe all these schools decided to go Division 1 before corona. I don’t think Hartford will be the last to consider moving to Division 2 or 3. In addition, some private colleges have gone out of business. Both the University of Tennessee and Delaware State University have recently taken over small private colleges to add new campuses.
 
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