Northridge voting to bring back football

[billings_poke]

Goal is FCS


http://sundial.csun.edu/2013/02/special-election-to-be-held-for-matador-football/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Sorry to break up the JJ posts lol but good god people

 

[GrizLA]

That's not going to happen...it is a commuter school...and no field anymore....

 

[BelierPeaux]

Never liked Northridge. Buncha punks.

 

[WyomingGrizFan]

Knew of a parochial school where I grew up in Montana that tried to have a football team after never having one, this back in the late sixties. There was already a public high school in town that had had one for decades and the parochial system must've got tired of losing students that wanted to play football to the public schooling system. So they had a football team for one year. The next year they had to close down the school and everything else, the hospital a little afterwards, but the church itself was what was left standing. A bunch of empty buildings standing alone for going on nearly forty years now. The hospital must've been sold and was subsequently made into an apartment complex, no less. Takes quite a financial commitment to start up a football program at the high school level, I guess; yet alone a collegiate one. If they do they better start off at Division II, just in case.

I think Great Falls Central High School reopened in 2001 and moved into their own buildings in 2007, if not mistaken. They closed in 1973 after having a football team that competed at a pretty high level, once. They now have a football team again but it's like 8-man Class "C" these days.

 

[kemajic]

I'm not sure how relevant a Great Falls Central HS example is, but among the programs added to the BSC since the departure of BSU, Nevada and Idaho, CS Northridge had the best performance, better than SacSt, PSU and UNC. Which of course, is not saying much, but Northridge was competitive right out of the gate.

 

[griz4life]

There is no way students at a commuter schoool vote to tax themselves $500 a year for FCS football.

 

[GrizLA]

There is no way students at a commuter schoool vote to tax themselves $500 a year for FCS football.

Even if they did, there is no stadium...if they get 500 for a bball game it is good....not a bad bball school..just not the interest in sports from the international student body.

 

[WyomingGrizFan]

Seems like there has been "financial viability' questions debated back and forth since 1992 < http://articles.latimes.com/1992-12-13/sports/sp-4086_1_cal-state-northridge" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Granted, Cal State Northridge was a five year member of the Big Sky Conference between 1995 and 2001, the year they discontinued football, having a 7 - 4 record in 1996 under Head coach Dave Baldwin, who is now the Offensive Coordinator at Colorado State. But as someone stated earlier, there is quite a number of Internationals and any extra cost, even a minimum of $ 250 per student, is really something more to budget for, besides travel expenses for them. For a student body of 35,000 or so, that only yields between $ 8 - 9 million. Still without a stadium besides.

And what about that $ 400 million spend to recover from the 1994 earthquake?

 

[GrizLA]

Seems like there has been "financial viability' questions debated back and forth since 1992 < http://articles.latimes.com/1992-12-13/sports/sp-4086_1_cal-state-northridge" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Granted, Cal State Northridge was a five year member of the Big Sky Conference between 1995 and 2001, the year they discontinued football, having a 7 - 4 record in 1996 under Head coach Dave Baldwin, who is now the Offensive Coordinator at Colorado State. But as someone stated earlier, there is quite a number of Internationals and any extra cost, even a minimum of $ 250 per student, is really something more to budget for, besides travel expenses for them. For a student body of 35,000 or so, that only yields between $ 8 - 9 million. Still without a stadium besides.

And what about that $ 400 million spend to recover from the 1994 earthquake?

The contributions to the state and feds from the students who excel in advanced programs has more than paid for the quake of 94. We are very much due for another. CSUN is a magnet for international students and those transferring to grad programs in the UC, SC, Stanford offerings...sports is not part of the mix.