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Date Posted: 20:23:49 05/02/03 Fri
Author: Dane96-
Subject: Football is inherently American and gives you exposure!
In reply to: Urban Barrister 's message, "On the subject of football, what's the value of playing football to an AE school?all?" on 15:30:22 05/02/03 Fri

Every argument is legit, those that are in favor of football that is. From UA's standpoint, we have been on TV numerous times, and have been extremely successful on and off the field (numerous academic All-americans). We now reach out to bring in student athletes, and students in general for that matter, in the state of Florida because of our yearly trips there. I have friends all over the country who know think of Albany as an actual school because they can see the team name on the CNN, ESPN, etc., tickers.

Ask the kids who played for us this year why we have football...for the experience. They played in Joe Robbie stadium two years ago and this year played in front of a packed (22000) house at Montana.

Football is inherently American. It gives schools spirit. Moreover, according to my sister, we are not a sport school until we make the NCAA's in hoops, or play a DI football game! She is a TERP of course, hence a sports snob.

That, Urban Barrister, is why nobody truly gives a crap about olympic sports (unfortnate as that is) but love football and basketball. That is the main reason that schools are recognized nationally (unless you are a rockstar academic school like MIT for example)amongst students. Its unfortunate, but athletics often are a very important indicator of a schools national prowess. Football is a key cog in that! Trust me, students at Albany will show up for the UA-HOFSTRA game...because they know Hofstra has good football. You think they really care about UA-Quinnapiac lax?

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[> Re: On the subject of football, what's the value of playing football to an AE school?all? -- NU Hoop Fan, 21:00:50 05/02/03 Fri

First, to counter Mainejeff's point, NU's field hockey team has competed in the NCAA quarter finals (the Elite 8) twice in the last 4 seasons, and 2 times in the last 10 made the Final Four.

Up until the Don Brown Era at NU, I was almost 100% against scholarship football, since NU stunk, and hadn't made a commitment to compete at the level it was cometing at. I thought the cost didn't justify the tangible benefit, because 1-AA football is as big a negative NPV, low IRR project as you could possibly imagine.

Brown came in, McCaw gave him more (but not all) of the resources, and the team began to win. Now call last season for NU a flash in the pan, but the support that came from Alumni and students when the team got good was incredible.

Alumni don't care if the women's field hockey or indoor track are winning, however, when NU is on the front page of the Globe Sports section on a Sunday for FOOTBALL of all things, people take notice.

I heard from more alumni this fall when the football team was winning thatn I have in my years since graduation.

1-AA football will never be a moneymaker, but if NU can leverage its momentum, I may be swayed further.

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