IPFW Articles

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A FW paper questions if it's worth it for IPFW to be in the Summit Leage.

On an afternoon in late August 2006, when a large room erupted with self-congratulatory shouts and commissioner Tom Douple welcomed IPFW into the Mid-Continent Conference – later renamed the Summit League – Al Goldfarb, president of Western Illinois University and chairman of the conference’s presidents council, was present.

“Clearly the support of the community was outstanding,” said Goldfarb of the league’s acceptance of IPFW. “ … It was very clear that Fort Wayne was the right decision.”

With the IPFW men’s basketball program as the gold standard and ultimate litmus test for determining the city’s interest in the Mastodons’ involvement in their new conference, Goldfarb’s initial reaction seems correct.



http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/p...20384/0/SPORTS

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Re: IPFW Articles

This article mentions how IPFW athletic budget has been stretched to the limit. Hope they can get their funding in order.

In their first foray at competing in a Division I postseason basketball tournament, the IPFW men’s and women’s teams are taking the “Road to the Final Four” slogan quite literally.

As part of the university’s cost-cutting effort, they will be taking buses instead of flying to the Summit League tournament that runs Saturday through March 11 in Tulsa, Okla.

Of the 10 Summit League institutions, eight of which will compete in the tournament, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne has the second-lowest athletic expense and revenue totals according to the 2006-07 reports submitted to the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act.



http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/p...0305/803020347