Football Coming to Kennesaw State

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The Champ said:
Seems like everyone in GA is adding football. Chatt Tech and West Ga Tech added JuCo teams. GSU KSU and Mercer now playing D1. Reinhardt and Berry start NAIA this year too I think.
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Berry moved to D3 recently. Added a bunch of other sports to.

Always seemed weird to me that more Georgia colleges didn't play football with the popularity and number of prospects here.
 
Look for Oglethorpe, Southern Poly & Agnes Scott to join in the fray within a year or two.
 
OldGold75 said:
Look for Oglethorpe, Southern Poly & Agnes Scott to join in the fray within a year or two.
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The smaller schools are looking for ways to boost male enrollment. At the least, they will add 60 or so males they would not have had otherwise. At the best, males will not eliminate them as an option because they don't have football.

The larger schools see the success of their peers or the peers they want to have and jump into the fray.
 
Kennesaw will do well IMO. I think they will in the long run have more success at building a football program than GSU. They have the numbers, so the base is there. It will take a while though.
 
Oglethorpe used to have a football team. Their stadium was built in 1920 for football. Some highlights of the Stormy Petrel football team:

September 25, 1926 - Football
After six years of trying, Oglethorpe tops Georgia Tech in football, 7-6 when halfback “Cy” Bell gallops for a 42 yard touchdown run and “Nutty” Campbell connects for the game-winning extra point.
September 28, 1929 - Football
The Stormy Petrels top the mighty Georgia Bulldogs on the football field 13-6 when halfback “Cy” Bell races 64 yards for the game winning touchdown.

http://www.alumni.oglethorpe.edu/s/324/index.aspx?sid=324&gid=1&pgid=563
 
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DressCheeseSideSeaboard said:
Oglethorpe used to have a football team. Their stadium was built in 1920 for football. Some highlights of the Stormy Petrel football team:

September 25, 1926 - Football
After six years of trying, Oglethorpe tops Georgia Tech in football, 7-6 when halfback “Cy” Bell gallops for a 42 yard touchdown run and “Nutty” Campbell connects for the game-winning extra point.
September 28, 1929 - Football
The Stormy Petrels top the mighty Georgia Bulldogs on the football field 13-6 when halfback “Cy” Bell races 64 yards for the game winning touchdown.

http://www.alumni.oglethorpe.edu/s/324/index.aspx?sid=324&gid=1&pgid=563
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I also believe that Tech lost its very first game ever to Mercer in Macon.
 
Tempest said:
Agnes Scott? You do realize that's an all girl school right???
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etc79 said:
Kennesaw will do well IMO. I think they will in the long run have more success at building a football program than GSU. They have the numbers, so the base is there. It will take a while though.
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I am not sure about that one. GSU has about 35,000 students and is currently the largest state university in GA surpassing UGA in numbers 2 years ago. KSU has about 24,000 students.

Plus GSU has a very diverse and pretty impressive alumni list that contribute pretty heavily to GSU. I can't think of one notable alumni from KSU.

GSU is already in Div. I football. KSU may be too late to the party. It will take KSU a lot longer to get to GSU's level that it took GSU to get to the level it did so quickly. By the time KSU actually fields a team GSU will be about 3 years into Div. 1 football and should be recruiting pretty well IMO relative to what KSU will be able to do.
 
When the bubble bursts for college enrollment due to rising costs (student debt) and competition from virtual colleges, the collapse won't be evenly distributed. The major universities with campus life, the prestigious ivy leagues, and the engineering schools will survive. The over-priced liberal arts schools and community colleges will be in trouble. I think the strategy for most college presidents is to be prepared to compete for a declining number of applicants. One way is to cut costs and try to increase the value of the degree. The other way is to grow into a larger university with the full campus experience. The latter seems to be the popular approach.
 
jacket67 said:
When the bubble bursts for college enrollment due to rising costs (student debt) and competition from virtual colleges, the collapse won't be evenly distributed. The major universities with campus life, the prestigious ivy leagues, and the engineering schools will survive. The over-priced liberal arts schools and community colleges will be in trouble. I think the strategy for most college presidents is to be prepared to compete for a declining number of applicants. One way is to cut costs and try to increase the value of the degree. The other way is to grow into a larger university with the full campus experience. The latter seems to be the popular approach.
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Well written.

And "Yes", both strategies will fail...Badly.
 
GSU is Div I-A/FBS and KSU is Div I-AA/FCS if my understanding is correct.


TheTaxJacket said:
I am not sure about that one. GSU has about 35,000 students and is currently the largest state university in GA surpassing UGA in numbers 2 years ago. KSU has about 24,000 students.

Plus GSU has a very diverse and pretty impressive alumni list that contribute pretty heavily to GSU. I can't think of one notable alumni from KSU.

GSU is already in Div. I football. KSU may be too late to the party. It will take KSU a lot longer to get to GSU's level that it took GSU to get to the level it did so quickly. By the time KSU actually fields a team GSU will be about 3 years into Div. 1 football and should be recruiting pretty well IMO relative to what KSU will be able to do.
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