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Post by skrapheap on Oct 26, 2010 9:29:18 GMT -6
Does UWM offer the maximum number of scholarships that can be offered in each of the sports offered?
i'm assuming that volleyball and both basketball teams do so, because they have walk-ons on their rosters.
For sports like soccer and baseball, where partial scholarships are offered, is that because of an NCAA limit on total scholarships for the sport, or is it because there isn't enough money to offer the full number of scholarships?
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Post by PantherU on Oct 26, 2010 14:23:36 GMT -6
NCAA limits total scholarships that can be levied to several different players.
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Post by gman2 on Oct 27, 2010 9:32:41 GMT -6
While watching the Boise State game with my 10 year old son:
Dad I wish UWM had a football team so I could play for them.
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dutchpthr
Junior
ain't much if it ain't dutch
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Post by dutchpthr on Oct 27, 2010 9:46:29 GMT -6
While watching the Boise State game with my 10 year old son: Dad I wish UWM had a football team so I could play for them. I like this little guy!!!! He has the right attitude!
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Post by PantherU on Oct 27, 2010 10:35:29 GMT -6
While watching the Boise State game with my 10 year old son: Dad I wish UWM had a football team so I could play for them. I want my future children to be like your kid at age 10.
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Post by gman2 on Oct 27, 2010 11:33:03 GMT -6
My son and I will be at the Intrasquad Scrimmage tonight. Look for someone with a 10 year old mini me in tow.
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Post by PantherU on Feb 22, 2011 18:19:04 GMT -6
Interesting note I found. Old Dominion football, which began play in 2009 and is 17-5 in their first two seasons, is operating in the black.
Expenses: $4,415,209
Revenues: $5,705,271
That $1.3 mil more than offsets the costs of extra women's sports, etc.
Old Dominion is expected to challenge for the CAA title (their first season in I-AA's best conference) and go to the NCAA Tournament in 2011.
So there goes yet another fallacy: a football program can't pay for itself. When people mention that a football program in D-I can't pay for itself, they fail to mention that most programs in I-A overspend.
19,782. That's the capacity of Foreman Field, ODU's home, and also happens to be their average attendance. That's right, sold out every game for the first two years.
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Post by apaladino on Apr 12, 2011 20:24:15 GMT -6
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Post by illwauk on Jun 1, 2011 14:35:02 GMT -6
I came across this and found it rather interesting. Could something similar be a reasonable and practical way for Milwaukee to get a football facility and a new arena? The article says it's too early to know the cost, but such a venue at UWM could probably be built with about half the capacity. www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/feb/01/plans-proposed-unlv-stadium-be-unveiled-morning/If scholarships are an issue, I would be in favor of cutting baseball. There's a reason Madison ended its program... college baseball just doesn't work in the Midwest. All of the top recruits go to southern and western schools that can practice outdoors in January whereas Wisconsin doesn't even see "baseball weather" until late may. This is why you always see smaller California schools (Long Beach, Fullerton, etc.) in the College World Series that you never hear from otherwise. I doubt most UWM students even know (let alone care) that we have Wisconsin's only D1 baseball program, and with the Brewers being the cultural institution that they are in this city, baseball may as well not even exist in Milwaukee outside of them.
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Post by PantherU on Jun 1, 2011 15:21:45 GMT -6
Two things can make our baseball program nationally competitive (as in, go to CWS regularly):
1. Baseball season moves to summer. 2. Panthers move to Miller Park.
That's the beginning and end to the list. A new stadium won't cut it - schools like Illinois State have spent millions on new ballparks only to reap no national success from them.
To your point that most UWM students probably don't know that the baseball program is the only one in the state, it all comes to education. We don't educate the students about our athletics program, so there's very little knowledge permeating among their ranks about any of our sports. I talked to a kid in May who thought we sucked this year - when I told him we took 2 of 3 from Butler, he was like "Really?" and said he hadn't been privy.
Baseball needs to push for Miller Park to be a permanent home, or else they'll be pushing for their permanent existence. Football, even at the I-AA non-scholarship level of Valpo and Butler, holds considerably more weight than our current college baseball program. Cal State Fullerton may have different ideas, but they have nice weather year round and a HUGE recruiting base for baseball. Milwaukee has a weak at best recruiting base, and the best of the best in pitching head south (The Panthers do tend to pick up the best hitters in Wisconsin).
Fact is, replacing baseball with women's softball erases the Title IX problem on its own and sets up Milwaukee Football to emerge. I don't like the idea of cutting baseball, but our options are becoming very limited with that sport when it will never reach a national level.
It's becoming as simple as Miller Park or Bust.
Now, as for the stadium. Several schools have used a single stadium for both men's basketball and football - the Kibbie Dome of Idaho, the UNI Dome of...UNI, and you all know the Carrier Dome of Syracuse. I wouldn't recommend it. We don't need to move from the Cell to an even larger, cavernous facility.
As for the retail space and how they are building it, the UNLV proposal is aggressive and probably significantly more elaborate than a final facility would be. However, with our basketball arena, the potential footprints will absolutely necessitate the need for retail and restaurant space that so many people have pointed out as a problem for a Klotsche-area arena.
It also opens up avenues for revenue, so you can bet that when men's basketball moves back to campus, it will be in a fully stocked arena with all the amenities that fans need both pre-and-post-game.
Also, the idea of building student residence space in the arena facility has been brought up by me and a few others when we were considering the Columbia Hospital campus for the arena. To see it done in real life, look to Infocision Stadium at Akron. The Zips built the new stadium in 2009 (30k) and are in the process of building residence halls in a horseshoe around the stands opposite the grandstand. If we can fit it, we would be stupid not to consider it.
I'm off to work, I have a new blog post that I'm working on and hope to have out by Monday - some of it is a wrap up what's happened since I took my break, but most of it is looking ahead.
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Post by uwmfutbol on Jun 24, 2011 15:00:13 GMT -6
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Post by PantherU on Jul 16, 2011 10:15:22 GMT -6
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Post by PantherU on Sept 5, 2011 7:13:23 GMT -6
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Post by Pounce Needs Pals on Sept 5, 2011 7:42:56 GMT -6
I heard the stat over the weekend and knew this link was coming to the board.
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Post by PantherU on Sept 5, 2011 8:35:52 GMT -6
Yet another success story. Is anyone going to listen?
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