Great facilities at UNF - will there ever be a Football program?

[Tacachale]

Harvard of the South?  What are the largest colleges without a football program?  I read somewhere that it was Cal State Fullerton?

CSU Northridge and CSU Fullerton are both around 36K students, and don't have football. That's the largest I know of. Boston University, with 32K students, is also pretty big. Interestingly, all three formerly had football but discontinued the programs. There are quite a few colleges between 20-30K that don't have football. I'll see if I can find a list somewhere.

[copperfiend]

You can throw Long Beach State in that group as well. They have over 30K enrollment. They stopped football about 20 years ago after their coach died. Terrell Davis was on their final team. He later transferred to UGa.

[chipwich]

I think I may certainly be in the minority here, but I really do not want UNF to have a football team. I graduated from UNF and had a good time there.  I feel very close to the school and want it to succeed.  I will donate without thinking twice to help it bring more academic scholarships, fund the expansion and betterment of academic programs, and feel strongly about adding more student housing and amenities to make it less of a commuter school.

I know a great deal of people think football is the alpha and omega of a school.  I think it opens the doors to the wrong crowds wanting to come to the school.  I don't want it to become a party school and I also don't want the school to waste a great deal of its money pumping up their football dept the way other schools do.

While football does nurture some degree of school spirit, I would rather see the money spent on giving scholarships to those who cannot afford a college education.  I want to invest in students, not athletes. 


I imagine not many people feel the same way, but for the foreseeable future, the athletic dept will not see my donations.  They will be directed to the library or scholarships.  I assure you it's the nerd in me talking.

I think it would be a far better investment for the school to add more graduate programs and offer a wide variety of doctoral programs and more undergraduate programs.  UNF can become a top tier school.  I just hope its not in football

[jcjohnpaint]

I agree.  I feel that the emphasis is on the students and their education.  I hope education stays the priority.