Football Back At Xavier

[DFW HOYA]

It's not I-AA, but it's a start. Opening game is against Marquette on Oct. 21.

Press release:
http://www.xavier.edu/newswire/editions/060906/front.htm

Web site:
http://www.xavier.edu/football/

[Hansel]

good news for the X men :)

[faxjusfax]

Next natural step is to join a IAA non-scholly league. Joining the MAAC will pit them against their natural A10 rivals Duquesne & La Salle, plus they will help MAAC football survive.

Won't cost them much to take the next step.

[DetroitFlyer]

Xavier would probably fit better in the PFL than the MAAC. Trust me, any return to NCAA level football is a long way off. Xavier does not have a football stadium, and even the low end PFL schools spend $400K per year on football.... I hope they are successful at the club level and build into a PFL team. Xavier was a great football rival for Dayton in the past, and leads Dayton in the all time series. It would be great for UD to have a true football rival just down the road, and I want to get even and pull ahead of those guys....

[89Hen]

Won't cost them much to take the next step.
I'm not sure about that. AFAIK, club sports have to be completely self-sufficient (can't recieve money from the school directly). Adding football as a varsity sport means adding the same amount in women's athletics. So if it costs $500,000 to have football, it costs the school $1M to add other sports which would probably generate no revenue. I don't know where Xavier stands right now with respect to Title IX, but they already have women's: basketball, golf, soccer, swimming, tennis, track and volleyball. They'd have to look to add softball, lacrosse, crew..? Not exactly money makers.

What is the average expenditure on non-schollie football anyway? Maybe I'm way off.