shizzle787
King Shizzle DCCLXXXVII of the Cesspool
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So I ran through some numbers regarding the NCAA and football and came up with some statistics.
There are 351 D-1 schools and 254 of them play football.
There are 305 D-2 schools and 169 of them play football.
There are 451 D-3 schools and 253 of them play football.
Here is where things get interesting:
California has almost 35 million people and only 21 football schools in all NCAA divisions. They only have two D-2 schools and that is soon to be one.
New England has 14 D-1 football schools and only 12 D-2 football schools. There are 32 D-3 football schools but schools sometimes break even on football at that level due to not providing scholarships.
It appears to me that there is a culling of the herd coming in NE and Cali due to lower high school participation, the CTE issue, and rising costs. This probably won't be a bad thing as the average talent level will be higher will fewer schools playing.
If UMass, URI, and some others dropped, it would probably be to our benefit.
There are 351 D-1 schools and 254 of them play football.
There are 305 D-2 schools and 169 of them play football.
There are 451 D-3 schools and 253 of them play football.
Here is where things get interesting:
California has almost 35 million people and only 21 football schools in all NCAA divisions. They only have two D-2 schools and that is soon to be one.
New England has 14 D-1 football schools and only 12 D-2 football schools. There are 32 D-3 football schools but schools sometimes break even on football at that level due to not providing scholarships.
It appears to me that there is a culling of the herd coming in NE and Cali due to lower high school participation, the CTE issue, and rising costs. This probably won't be a bad thing as the average talent level will be higher will fewer schools playing.
If UMass, URI, and some others dropped, it would probably be to our benefit.