apaladin wrote: ↑Tue May 10, 2022 11:28 pm
Tonight Upstate best SC and Charleston beat Clempson. Again ED took away the best sport where we could compete with the big boys. Thanks ED.
Upstate has 6,000 students. Cost of attendance at Upstate is about $26,000.
Charleston has 12,000 students. Cost of attendance at Charleston is about $31,000.
Furman has 2,700 students. Cost of attendance is about $68,000 (2021-2022).
Neither of those schools supports Division I Football (nor any other level of Football).
Considering cost of attendance, number of students, number of teams supported, number of male students sports opportunities compared to number of female students sports opportunities, percentage of male students enrolled compared to percentage of female students enrolled, Title IX requirements, and probably other factors that have to be considered (for example Furman's desire and commitment to excellence in all of the sports that it sponsors and in all other areas of endeavor), it is not that surprising that Upstate and Charleston have better ability to have baseball at present than Furman does. Maybe one day, as those tremendous donations to athletics keep coming in so that we can afford baseball and afford several additional women's sports in order to meet Title IX requirements, Furman will perhaps be able to have baseball again. Additionally, it is not President Davis's fault. It is no one's fault, but it was a decision of the Furman University Board of Trustees. [ ... Even if and when that happens (i.e., having baseball again), I don't see the big deal about schools playing baseball after graduation. Most of the students, other than the few student-athletes (if any) whose seasons are not over are gone from campus.]
ADDENDUM 5-13-22: That was the first time in 14 tries (in all history) that USC Upstate has beaten UofSC Columbia. Previously 0-13. Maybe the beginning of a trend.