San Diego, Jacksonville, Poughkeepsie, not exactly close to MN.
At least by playing in the Pioneer league, they don't have to worry about scholarships.
but it's probably the toughest conferences in FCS, so it would have made their on-field transition even harder, probably impossibly hard. I have no idea if the MVC would have had any interest in St. Thomas, but it seems like Northern Iowa and the Dakota schools would benefit by playing in the Twin Cities
and they would get destroyed by those schools.
Save the money on the 63 scholarships for a couple years and try to build a respectable Pioneer League program. Hopefully they can also gain some incremental revenue from basketball and hockey. If they could make the jump to the MVC eventually and start offering scholarships, many kids from the Twin Cities that normally fill the rosters of the Dakota schools would certainly have to consider staying home. I think we'll see that in hoops right away.
Villanova? St. Thomas. San Diego. Anyone else?
Dayton, Duquesne, Fordham, Georgetown, Holy Cross, Incarnate Word, Merrimack, Sacred Heart, St. Francis, St. Thomas, San Diego, Villanova
Maybe that's more in line with their caliber of play, but last I checked they were in the ACC.
Guess the wheels were already in motion.
so it was sort of forced upon them.
that St John's voted against that decision.
Hopefully SJU follows suit. I don't think we have the cash to do so, however (unfortunately).
St. Thomas: $500 million
St John's: $200 million
and UST has a grad school to support.
UST vs. SJU students is about a 3-1 ratio (which is largely how the other MIAC schools justified kicking them out).
The linked article suggests that graduate programs might help support undergraduate programs instead of the reverse.
but that works more in my favor, so I'll take it.
I was basically saying that their cost is higher so they need the higher endowment, but either way it works.
Well - for a comparison like this.
First off - do it dollars per student.
I could also tell you to modify it if you have more grad students than undergrads - and particularly a medical school.
Suddenly Grinnell, Williams and Amherst become "richer" than Harvard (at least if you're an undergrad).
(PS - Fr Hesburgh once told me that "the two biggest headaches for a college president is a football team and a medical school - and my football team makes up for no medical school.")
a lot less impressive once you realize that covers 8 full-service universities (3 of whom have med schools) and 6 stand-alone med schools. That's 167k undergrads and 54k grad students.