One of Fordham's biggest problems as it pertains to sports is that our large student body is spread out over three campuses in three counties, which makes it much harder to muster the kind of critical mass at sporting events that those larger schools can. And because we have a PL-level AD and facilities, with an ambiguous mandate as it pertains to the role of Athletics in the University's identity, we are unable to meet the quite sizeable marketing challenge that such dispersal presents. This means that for sports purposes Fordham is effectively no bigger than it's RH campus, and roughly on par with those smallish liberal arts colleges. -- Fordham Rams Basketball Message Board

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Date Posted: Fri April 15, 2005 17:39:56
Author: DamnRam
Subject: One of Fordham's biggest problems as it pertains to sports is that our large student body is spread out over three campuses in three counties, which makes it much harder to muster the kind of critical mass at sporting events that those larger schools can. And because we have a PL-level AD and facilities, with an ambiguous mandate as it pertains to the role of Athletics in the University's identity, we are unable to meet the quite sizeable marketing challenge that such dispersal presents. This means that for sports purposes Fordham is effectively no bigger than it's RH campus, and roughly on par with those smallish liberal arts colleges.
In reply to: bfg 's message, "Few Ivy League or PL schools have successful sports programs, especially among the high profile sports. With the excpetion of Princeton and Penn, most Ivy League basketball programs are awful. The same can be said of PL hoops w/ the exception of HC and Bucknell. PL schools are not good models for us b/c they are, generally, small liberal arts colleges. the schools that we should use as models are, to varying degrees: G'town, BC, Nova, Vandy, Wake, Tulane, & Rice." on Fri April 15, 2005 12:30:28

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