DI referendum

[Twentysix]

This is actually getting a little student support. Maybe there will be a new DI program out west soon. The school has been looking at football too.

http://s24.postimg.org/x1qg9hg38/20160412_112409.jpg

[clenz]

This is actually getting a little student support. Maybe there will be a new DI program out west soon. The school has been looking at football too.

http://s24.postimg.org/x1qg9hg38/20160412_112409.jpgive got nothing showing who you're talking about

[ursus arctos horribilis]

ive got nothing showing who you're talking about

Me neither.

[Laker]

Is it the University of California-San Diego? They are currently D2.

[Twentysix]

Ucsd. It says the univeristy at the top of the page. But it's upside down and small.

[clenz]

There's literally nothing there. http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160412/c81b9baf83f7bc13ef2c17bb90218196.jpg
http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160412/32b90ea58bfa84d019e761963ae8091a.jpg
http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160412/9b0d895497600db573c39e2c99682234.jpg

[Twentysix]

Weird.

This was captured on a different computer even.

http://www.anygivensaturday.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=22331&stc=1

[Twentysix]

It is the UCSD Guardian from April 11, 2016.

Headline: A.S. Council to Hold Vote on Division-I Referendum During Week 8

Last paragraph says "Students will vote on the [sic] whether or not to shift UCSD athletics to NCAA Division I during Week 8 of this quarter."

[Twentysix]

Of course this would have to pass first before football would be voted on. It's also possible this passes and then UCSD does what UCI does, and vote down football repeatedly.

[ursus arctos horribilis]

Thanks for the news on this. Pretty interesting times there then?

[Twentysix]

I suppose you could say that. Sports will never be more important than the beach, but the move is getting some student representative support, which is a change from the last couple votes over the decades.

[Twentysix]

Last week the student body raised $500,000 annually to basically improve Sun God by voting to increase fees by $15 each annually. So the student body is favorable to fee increases.

[Twentysix]

The voting is going on this week. If it passes, the $160 student fee will raise $15.36 million dollars annually to be put towards a DI athletic budget. The athletic budget is currently about $9 million per year.

The current plan is to essentially pour all of it into Men's basketball.

~$25 million a year for a non-football public school sounds about right. That's about Wichita State's budget.

[Twentysix]

It passed

[Laker]

It passed

26 do you have a link to this?

[dbackjon]

Announced on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/UCSanDiego/?fref=nf

UC San Diego undergraduates voted 6,137 to 2,567 today to go NCAA Division I. Pictured here: student athletes cheer after the vote was announced. Photo by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications.

[Laker]

http://www.ucsdtritons.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=5800&ATCLID=210975589

Has the Big West already told them that they have an invite?

Looks like I'll have to order a Tritons cap for my collection.

[clenz]

And there's the football school for the Big Sky to allow UND to leave for the Summit...

[dbackjon]

And there's the football school for the Big Sky to allow UND to leave for the Summit...

They don't play football

[clenz]

They don't play football
Doesn't mean they couldn't.

They also "don't play D1 athletics"....That changed.

[Twentysix]

Doesn't mean they couldn't.

They also "don't play D1 athletics"....That changed.

Indeed, football will come with time. Word is ucsd has had an unofficial invite to the bigwest for years. The petition process is a formality.

[Twentysix]

Though i will be very surprised off they stay in the big west more than 15 years.

[dgtw]

They still need a DI conference to invite them. A student vote is not how it is done.


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[clenz]

They still need a DI conference to invite them. A student vote is not how it is done.


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With only 9 members the Big West is a near lock.

10 is the perfect conference size, even if the current climate of college athletics thinks otherwise.

[Laker]

They don't play football

Speaking of football- when is Grand Canyon adding it?

[Twentysix]

They still need a DI conference to invite them. A student vote is not how it is done.


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supposedly ucsd has had an unofficial invite to the big west every single time the student body has voted (probably has to do with the other UCs forcing them in). And they have voted a lot. What the student vote did was give the athletic department a little more than 15 million dollars annually in addition to the little over 9 million it already has annually.

While a conference invite needs to happen still, the bigger hurdle was the student body vote, for UCSD specifically.

[dbackjon]

Doesn't mean they couldn't.

They also "don't play D1 athletics"....That changed.


So could any one of the other 6 CA universities in the Big West that don't.

[dbackjon]

Speaking of football- when is Grand Canyon adding it?



They have to sell a few more thousand worthless on-line degrees to pay for it first.

[Twentysix]

So could any one of the other 6 CA universities in the Big West that don't.

They all vote on it all the time.

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Well the UCs anyway