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By Gary T. Brown
The NCAA News
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Sports sponsorship: Mansfield University of Pennsylvania announced November 16 that it will drop football, a sport it has sponsored since 1891, because of budget shortfalls. Mansfield President Maravene Loeschke said, “Because Mansfield’s academic programs form the foundation for educating every student, preserving and enhancing the quality of these programs will always be our first priority. In this challenging budget climate, academic excellence requires making difficult choices.” Loeschke said Mansfield, a public university with about 3,400 students, “is too small an institution to support a football program in the manner it deserves. Although enrollment at the institution has generally remained steady, costs of running the university have escalated each year. It is no longer possible to continue to do well all of the things we have done for many years.” Loeschke said the school would establish a task force of football alumni and other interested people who will work with the advancement office to create a strategy for raising an endowment that would be sufficient to support a competitive football program. “If we are able to raise sufficient funds in this way, we will open discussion about re-establishing a football program at whatever level — Division II, Division III, or independent league — we can properly support.” In a list of questions about the decision, one was why Mansfield doesn’t “prioritize football like other institutions do.” The answer: “We have prioritized football over all other sports. Football receives more funding than any other sport. However, we do not prioritize football over academics. We are now in a position that we would have to diminish academic support to fund football. We will not do that.”
Milestones: Stonehill College head women’s basketball coach Trisha Brown earned her 100th career victory with the Skyhawks’ 66-42 win over Southern New Hampshire November 21. Brown sports a mark of 100-51 (.662) in six seasons at Stonehill ... With Clayton State University’s 68-49 men’s basketball victory over Lenoir-Rhyne College December 8, head coach Gordon Gibbons became the first coach in the 16 years of the program to reach 100 career victories. Now in his sixth season, Gibbons is 100-49 at Clayton State, and 346-112 in his 16th season of coaching at the Division II level.
Milestones: Stonehill College head women’s basketball coach Trisha Brown earned her 100th career victory with the Skyhawks’ 66-42 win over Southern New Hampshire November 21. Brown sports a mark of 100-51 (.662) in six seasons at Stonehill ... With Clayton State University’s 68-49 men’s basketball victory over Lenoir-Rhyne College December 8, head coach Gordon Gibbons became the first coach in the 16 years of the program to reach 100 career victories. Now in his sixth season, Gibbons is 100-49 at Clayton State, and 346-112 in his 16th season of coaching at the Division II level.
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