Quote from: mikefln on November 23, 2024, 09:06:14 AMQuote from: XREDDRAGON77 on November 22, 2024, 11:24:38 AMThe success of SJF seemed to correlate with the Bills use of their facilities. Sounds like a marketing stunt with an NFL team should be looked into!
Cortland was already decent when the Jets rolled in. The addition of "Hard Knocks" on campus only amplified the schools profile at the time.
Best of luck moving forward, except when it's Cortland week!
The Steelers have been at St Vincent since before I was born in the late 70s. In that time SVC dropped football for 40 years, brought it back in the mid 2000s, and I could be mistaken but never had a winning season since the revival. There has to be more to it than the Bills training there.
I worked at Saint Vincent, they will do anything to cater to the Steelers and give them whatever they want but when it comes to their own football program their school scholarships don't match who they think they are as an education institution. They think they are top of the line when they have other college programs very similarly to them academically and schools that are better than them within an hour or two. They also don't want to compete to get Pennsylvania athletes and prefer to recruit students and athletes from all over the country to promote their diverse student culture there. Problem is when you have a losing football program, who takes athletes from 8-10 hours or more away who get homesick they end up staying for one year and the cycle continues with constantly have a roster that is mostly full of freshmen.
They need to craft their academic scholarships to make it so good a deal that kids want to stay to actually build something there. They have literally had one 6 win season since they brought football back.