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Bu brand strategic objectives?

Okay...last post from me about football.

This article is very recent and explains the start-up costs for Cleveland State, looking to play in the Pioneer League...just as I'm proposing.

So this is roughly what Bradley could expect to pay.

A consultant's study estimated football would cost $13 million to $15 million to launch and roughly $1 million a year to operate. Where the team would practice and play, and how adding football might affect Title IX (federal equity-in-sports requirements) are among many questions to be resolved.
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http://www.cleveland.com/sports/csu/index.ssf/2010/04/cleveland_state_students_want.html

C'mon. Any rich donors on this board have $13 mil lying around? I'm sure they'll name a stadium after you. C'mooooon!
 
As much as football appeals to me, I'm not sure I can get that excited about Bradley making a run at it. If we're non-scholarship it seems like we'll struggle to be any good... I can't imagine we'd make any money off of it... And I kind of think it could actually hurt our soccer program, which is a strong one... So I'm not sure I'm willing to do that. I think resources would be better spent on hockey and maybe lacrosse in an effort to get in on the ground floor of those sports.
 
thefish7 said:
If we're non-scholarship it seems like we'll struggle to be any good.
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That's why we stick to playing other non-scholarship programs in the Pioneer League. I can imagine some pretty fun regional rivalries with Drake and Butler...maybe even Valpo and Dayton.

http://www.pioneer-football.org/

With Butler, Drake, Valpo and Dayton...that's the start of the nice new private school conference I was envisioning.

Heck...let's make the Pioneer League an all-sport conference and our new home! (Ok...maybe not)
 
Going back to the random conference speculation...it's a good idea down the road, but Bradley, or for that matter every other Valley school, won't be the trigger point for the creation of that conference.

The goal of Bradley should be to improve the athletic department to the point that we're a very, very attractive candidate to be poached from the MVC into the new private league conference. The goal isn't to spearhead the creation or be in on the ground floor of the conference. Reason? The programs that will be in on the ground floor are the displaced Big East teams, and probably some A-10 teams and maybe Butler. They're going to have the power.
 
I agree TAS, our focus has to be to position ourselves to be attractive when the time comes. That includes success in basketball but I think strong programs in the non prestige sports can play a role too... I'm not sure that a non schollie football program helps much. Though headless bobcat brings up a very good point about it maybe helping us build relationships with some of the schools we may want to fall in with.
 
Keep dreaming people, Bradley in my lifetime will not have a football team. It would be a money pit, never mind that they have no place to play (Shea Stadium and whatever high school stadium in the area is out of the question). Tulsa plays higher-level because they can. Thank the oil industry. :)
 
I agree that Bradley will likely never again have a football team. But that doesn't stop me from declaring that I would enjoy it if they did.

I can't look down on 1-AA football too much when I already follow a mid-major basketball team. Clearly top-level sports are not my priority.

We're all on this board because we want to stay in touch with Bradley in some small way. For me, football would be another way to do that (soccer ain't cutting it for me).

I envision a Bradley-Butler football rivalry like a Harvard-Yale rivalry...albeit not as old or prestigious. Two similar schools competing for similar student bodies. Good times.

But I'm also realistic enough to know that I'm just daydreaming. Thanks for letting me indulge.
 
I think homecoming could become legitimate if BU had football. From a college standpoint, homecoming isnt really homecoming without the football game at the end of the week. Maybe its just me, but when i think homecoming I think football.
 
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