If you don't play football you're I-A?

[Ronbo]

This is interesting. According to the US Department of Education if you play basketball but not football you are a I-A school. If you play I-AA football then you are I-AA.

http://ope.ed.gov/athletics/Search.asp

Here's Gonzaga, a tiny private school that doesn't even play football. Shouldn't they be I-AAA?

Gonzaga University Athletics
Enrollment 5,858
E 502 BOONE AVE
SPOKANE Reporting Year : 6/1/2004-5/31/2005
Reporting Official : ROBERT SPITZER, S.J.
Title : PRESIDENT
Phone : 509-324-5784
Sanctioning Body : NCAA Division I-A


Here's Montana.

Department of Intercollegiate Athletics
The University of Montana
Enrollment 13,558
Hoyt Athletic Complex
Missoula Reporting Year : 7/1/2004-6/30/2005
Reporting Official : George M Dennison
Title : President
Phone : 406-243-2311
Sanctioning Body : NCAA Division I-AA

[bisonguy]

The US Department of Education has nothing to do with filling out the report, it's the AD, associate AD, or whoever else at the reporting school.

Xavier University Athletic Department
Attention: Greg Park
3800 Victory Parkway
Cincinnati Reporting Year : 6/1/2004-5/31/2005
Reporting Official : MICHAEL J GRAHAM, SJ
Title : PRESIDENT
Phone : 513-745-3301
Sanctioning Body : NCAA Division I-AAA




I thought the NCAA did away with the I-AAA nomenclature in 2004 or 2005??

[*****]

Wow, Gonzaga and Xavier have athletic programs? Well if they are D-I without football they are I-AAA (for football).

[Poly Pigskin]

I never understood the need for a subclassification of non-football schools. Why not just call them Division I? The AAA is completely unnecessary.

[*****]

I never understood the need for a subclassification of non-football schools. Why not just call them Division I? The AAA is completely unnecessary.Seems when they talk about football they felt that each school needed a subclassification in D-I.