Competitive Disadvantage

Back-to-back PL champs 2016 and 2017.... but need to get back to relevance in the national FCS scene.
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Re: Competitive Disadvantage

Post by jimk72 » Fri Nov 05, 2021 7:56 am

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Re: Competitive Disadvantage

Post by Sundayamqb » Fri Nov 05, 2021 11:02 pm

ngineer wrote: Thu Nov 04, 2021 11:16 pm Fred Dunlap predicted this would happen ten years ago when the issue of scholarships was chugging down the runway with Fordham's threat to leave the PL if they weren't instituted. Yes, we can recruit a small handful of athletes that we otherwise would not be able to, but it was going to inhibit our ability to have good sized rosters--especially with the rule the PL follows of not allowing need-based aid to be used with scholarships. With only 85-90 on a roster, and the inevitable dozen or so at any time who are injured, it is not sustainable. The PL needs to wake up about football. Maybe there should be consideration of dropping football as a PL sport and let each school determine their own path: "move up" by joining the Colonial, NEC, Big South, etc., OR "move down" to Pioneer, MEAC, OR go D-II or D-III. Of course, Lehigh and Laughyette are joined at the hip for "The Rivalry" (#157 and counting), but that doesn't mean they have to be in the same league for football. When the PL began with the schollies, the Ivies responded with the bigger guns than we have: endowment and now have rosters well in excess of 100 and give virtual free-rides to based upon their 'need' formulas. We cannot compete very often with that in football. The other problem is that the PL Presidents don't have athletics as their priority, as we, the few fans" do. Due to the media, we subconsciously measure what we do with similar standards. Some think we can just buy-out some coach's contract and "lure" some "name" to coach here. People are using the same metrics to compare inapposite athletic programs. Regardless, the PL Presidents need to have a "retreat" and figure out what they want to do about football, because it is swirling around the porcelain bowl.
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