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Temple to drop 7 sports, including baseball
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Fri Dec 06, 2013 3:27 pmby TheHall
From Philly.com:
"In a stunning move Friday, Temple University killed seven of its 24 intercollegiate sports programs - nearly a third - to boost funding for the remaining sports and become more competitive in the athletic conference it entered this summer...Gone are baseball and softball. Men's crew, gymnastics, outdoor and indoor track and field, and women's softball and rowing also got the ax."
http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/colleges/temple/20131207_Temple_to_drop_7_sports__including_baseball__rowing.htmlThe AAC is not the BE. Uconn I'm looking at you.
Re: Temple to drop 7 sports, including baseball
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Fri Dec 06, 2013 3:33 pmby stever20
Little problem for UConn known as football. They won't sacrifice it to the MAC/CUSA/SBC to come to the BE.
Re: Temple to drop 7 sports, including baseball
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Fri Dec 06, 2013 5:01 pmby Bulldog_Muskie
Sucks for the athletes in those programs. At least they'll be able to cheer on their great football team with pride!
Re: Temple to drop 7 sports, including baseball
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Fri Dec 06, 2013 5:17 pmby Jet915
Too bad football killed these sports.
Re: Temple to drop 7 sports, including baseball
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Fri Dec 06, 2013 5:19 pmby stever20
Jet915 wrote:Too bad football killed these sports.
to be fair- reading the story, I think some of those sports would have probably been gone no matter what(Rowing for instance).
Re: Temple to drop 7 sports, including baseball
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Fri Dec 06, 2013 6:14 pmby Lavinwood
I can see all of them but baseball? I have been to many SJ baseball games and we have a great team that consistently makes the tourney and was recently 1 game from the CWS. I was sitting next to Cubs and Mets scouts watching our guys. Very cool, cheap, and fun way to spend a day.
Re: Temple to drop 7 sports, including baseball
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Fri Dec 06, 2013 6:30 pmby TheHall
Philly is the home of the Penn Relays, and now Temple has dropped Indoor/Outdoor Track & Field....D1 Football killed them when it was supposed to be what would save them all.
Re: Temple to drop 7 sports, including baseball
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Fri Dec 06, 2013 7:50 pmby Bill Marsh
I wonder what killed Providence baseball back in the '90's in the very year when it was Big East champions?
Re: Temple to drop 7 sports, including baseball
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Sat Dec 07, 2013 11:58 pmby ChelseaFriar
Bill Marsh wrote:I wonder what killed Providence baseball back in the '90's in the very year when it was Big East champions?
Answer:
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/19/sport ... le-ix.htmlGreat story about the last game (NCAA Tournament):
http://www.sectionb.com/prov.htm
Re: Temple to drop 7 sports, including baseball
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Sun Dec 08, 2013 8:06 pmby TheHall
A minor realignment note here: Oral Roberts will head back to the Summit League next summer, just two years after leaving the conference for the Southland...
“The Presidents Council unanimously supported Oral Roberts University's return to The Summit League,” Dean L. Bresciani, North Dakota State University president and chair of the Summit League's Presidents Council, said in a statement."
Oral Roberts spent 15 years in the Summit, from 1997 through 2012. The basketball team went to the NCAA tournament three times during that span. ORU, 5-3 so far this season, went 20-15 a year ago and was a 13-5 team inside the Southland.
http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/eye-on-college-basketball/24366695/oral-roberts-will-return-to-summit-league-in-2014
I'm reading this & thinking sometimes plans just don't work out as planned.......I'm looking at you Uconn.