so are you emailing Pollard about getting curling, cross country skiing, and every other Olympic sport and why can’t they compete for Iowa State?
I don’t doubt that. I think Akron brought 10 fans when they came to Ames. I don’t even think many of the players parents came.Having grown up in a suburb of Akron, with many people I know that get scholarships there, this sucks for them. Also Akron football is barely a moneymaker as is, they average one of the lowest attendance in the country and the big time athletic donors are few and far between. Academics wise, they get $10-15million a year on average.
They also stretched themselves out really thin on academics. They used to focus on hard sciences and engineering (like Iowa State) because of the tire companies in the area while Kent State, a university only 20-30min away, focused on liberal arts, teaching, medicine, and law (like Iowa).
In the last few decades, Akron has tried to expand into other areas to increase enrollment but they didn't do any of those things that great and while they saw an initial surge, it has fallen flat and now they're dropping enrollment like flies.
222-0 loss to Georgia tech...just think if they don't play football this fall...
Losing many of the non-revenue sports will have no impact on a vast majority of students. You could argue funds could be diverted to things that more students want or use.Exactly. Losing non-revenue sports programs will absolutely hurt the college experience and impact the amount of high school athletes that deserve to continue their athletic careers.
I don’t doubt that. I think Akron brought 10 fans when they came to Ames. I don’t even think many of the players parents came.
Did they offer scholarships?I actually did play college football
I don’t doubt that. I think Akron brought 10 fans when they came to Ames. I don’t even think many of the players parents came.
I checked ESPN and it says 22k out of 30k capacity and that is a.... lie.We were pretty darn close to out numbering them when we were there and we couldn’t have brought more than a thousand fans
They can. Just do it like they do at Simpson or Central. After college they can all become PE or Art teachers.
All colleges and universities should trim it down to scholarships for football and basketball only. Everything else goes to the club level. Maybe wrestling and baseball/softball can be regionally based ...IDK. But a lot of people are right. Nobody gives a **** about anything else. They barely give a **** about baseball and wrestling.
Because I thought you were the Simpson baseball player.
Which college? Were you full scholarship, partial or walk-on?No college football
Which college? Were you full scholarship, partial or walk-on?