D-II loses another one

[89rabbit]

D-II just lost another top notch program, luckily Upper Iowa is on the way.

http://www.nhregister.com/site/news....7515&rfi=6

UNH puts an end to football program


By Sean Barker , Assistant Sports Editor 01/29/2004


WEST HAVEN — Only seven years after competing in the NCAA Division II championship game, the University of New Haven announced Thursday it is dropping football immediately.

The university is also dropping women's golf, women's indoor track and field and women's outdoor track and field, effective in the fall of 2004 to comply with gender equity.

"We couldn't get a regional schedule," New Haven director of athletics Deborah Chin said. "The inability to get a regional schedule, along with the change in the way the NCAA selections for the playoffs are selected were the main factors.


This only reinforces my belief that we are leaving D-II at the right time.


Go State!

[jackmd]

Re: D-II loses another one

Metro State had plans to dump athletics altogether. Latest word is that they will stay for now. Here is an article from the Denver Post talking about BB, Coach Dunlop, and the plans to dump athletics. How many successfull DI programs plan to dump athletics this year? Nice to be movin-on-up. Here is a link to the full story and several interesting paragraphs.

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,...?search=filter

Metro's Dunlap deserves better fit
By Mark Kiszla
Denver Post Sports Columnist

Bigger is not always better, but stupidity knows no bounds.
Metro State, a commuter college wedged in a bustling corner of downtown Denver, is cool for two reasons: beer and basketball.
The landmark building on campus is a historic brewery. The basketball team won the Division II national title in 2000 and 2002.
Just because all the victories by the Roadrunners are small, does not mean they are incapable of teaching us all a big lesson about the crass hypocrisy of amateur sports.
Mike Dunlap is the best man coaching college hoops in Colorado. Period.
Anybody across America who has bothered to look at his record knows this to be true, except the educators who recently threatened to pull down the rims and turn off the lights on Dunlap's program. Metro State is considering the elimination of all sports at a school where 20,000 students are more concerned with fighting traffic than cheering for the home team.
But destroying a beautiful thing, no matter how small, makes people mad. And, believe me, you do not want to make John Chaney mad. He is the coach of Temple. He is the feisty old conscience of college basketball. He is a die-hard friend to Dunlap.
"The worst thing that could happen to Metro State is Mike Dunlap leaving the school. We don't have enough good people in this country, in any business. So why would that school do anything to hurt him?" Chaney said.
The mere thought of any board of trustees member trying to shut down Metro State basketball makes Chaney so angry he reacts profanely.