Two Pet Peeves

[UNI MadCat]

Drake has scholarships for all their other sports, but football. They are division I in sports and their programs are funded that way. Their adminstration does not want to fund football as because it is too expensive and they are "focused on academics".

To be fair, its not just that they don't spend it on football and are focused on academics. Remember, you have to remain Title IX compliant and, though I'm no expert, I do know that you can't just start offering football scholarships without adding scholarships in women sports too (or adding another woman's sport). So, it goes beyond just the money they would need to spend on the football team itself.

The way I understand it, Drake would love to be D-III and not have this goofy "non-scholarship" status, but the NCAA does not allow that. If you are going to be D-I in all other sports, you must have a "D-I" football team too.

[Marc Wigim]

I think that's really stupid. I'm sure that Drake would love to be D-III along with Dayton, Butler, and all those others who had success back that was the status quo. I think it's unfair to Drake to have to do that, personally. If they want football, they should be allowed to make it competitive. If they were in D-III, they would allowed to be in the D-III playoffs, giving them something to strive for.

[Cap'n Cat]

Was wondering why, during his interview, Gary Barta couldn't find it in his brain to mention that he worked several years right up the road at ANOTHER I-AA POWER, UNI.




SMFH......................