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New Sport: Women's Bowling
IAA Fan:
You are such a Ron. Again with the obvious & the "tsunami" is not see by anyone but you ...LOL. The amount of $$ spent on athletics at YSU is the envy of just about any team in the nation, outside of a few in the boonies and those that are the largest in their states. 90%+ of all DI schools with football do not even cover that single sport. You just never quit and no matter what happens you will always say "you called it" or a class which I stated was the best in the MVFC" ...lol. How about the only time you are right, is when someone else mentions it. :)
Again what happened to women's bowling ...you know the subject of this thread? Get out an read quickly on the internet so you can dazzle us with your expert knowledge on the sport after reading only 1 or two paragraphs.
Penguin Nation:
--- Quote from: IAA Fan on March 16, 2015, 10:01:28 PM ---You are such a Ron.
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What's a "Ron"? Did you call him a "Ron Strollo"? My goodness. That's almost as bad as calling someone a "Heacock."
There is no need for such offensive and insulting name-calling in this forum.
Observer:
--- Quote from: IAA Fan on March 16, 2015, 10:01:28 PM --- The amount of $$ spent on athletics at YSU is the envy of just about any team in the nation, outside of a few in the boonies and those that are the largest in their states. 90%+ of all DI schools with football do not even cover that single sport.
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...no...just no. The first part of that statement is just plain false. The MAC which gets destroyed on this board on a daily basis doubles YSU's investment in athletics, lets not get into every sport men's or women's in the Power 5.
Secondly the point of football is not to cover football as only 10 schools in the COUNTRY do this annually. The point is to have "in house" marketing for the institution (much like the USSR government subsidized sports system back in the day, it was a demonstration of their strength), and to derive donors based on that show of strength.
--- Quote from: IAA Fan on March 16, 2015, 05:21:45 PM ---
So what bigger schools ...what is your point? Has not Ytown always been loaded with Kids whose parents send them to Kent? I am almost 50, so this is nothing new. UC is the only school in the state with an increase in enrollment ...that is because of their new "diversity" program ...lol. Need I say any more? They now offer heavy race/gender/income/age related scholarships. Heck, their average age for student was 24.6 years as of last year ..I guarantee you that has not gone down. They are quickly becoming the largest community college in the country.
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"Diversity program...lol"? so a Diversity program that drives up enrollment is a bad thing? what does average age of students have to do with anything? You say largest community college in the country as if that's a bad thing and maybe it is, who knows. But if true than where does that leave YSU?
IAA Fan:
Observer: I must not have been clear enough in my $$$ comment ...sorry. I mean we dip far less than most schools into the scholastic funds, Heck athletic programs in the MAC survive off of their GF. At least we generate revenue. Look at OSU ,, they made $86mil in football profit the last year Tressel was there. Will beat that this coming year.
You are absolutely right on the point about doing what they need to do at UC. However if Tressel did do something like that at YSU, Paladin would find a way to downgrade the efforts. The reason that I brought up the age, is that most people that attend CC's are male, married, family, working and "older". The average undergrad age of a more traditional university is probably between 19 and 20. Another way to obtain more students is to offer more grad programs. Schools with large grad populations have very high average age per student. Additionally, the more localized a school is, the greater the need for graduate studies, as the kids have already obtained their undergrad.
IAA Fan:
Official Announcement:
Youngstown State University will add a women’s bowling program as a new intercollegiate athletic program beginning in the fall of 2015, Executive Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Ron Strollo announced on Wednesday.
Women’s Bowling will become the 19th Division I sport and 11th women's sport currently offered by the YSU Athletic Department.
The 2015-16 academic year will serve as “start-up” period to hire a coach, recruit student-athletes, secure a facility and prepare a schedule to begin competition in 2016-17.
Strollo said adding a bowling program helps the University in many ways; it provides an opportunity to add 10-12 students to Youngstown State's enrollment; it helps with the gender equity numbers of the department; andi it also gives the Penguins a chance to compete for another National Championship at the collegiate level.
“We’re excited about this new opportunity to recruit high school students, primarily within Ohio, to pursue their academic and athletic goals at Youngstown State,” Strollo said.
Women’s Bowling is sponsored by the Ohio High School Athletic Association providing the program with a solid base from the outset.
“The Mahoning Valley has a rich tradition of bowling,” Strollo said. “Further, the popularity amongst area and regional high school students coupled with women’s bowling having been a club sport at YSU already made this a natural fit to add to our Division I athletic sport offerings.”
YSU women’s bowling will participate in competition as a Division I independent team and will not be affiliated with any league at this time. Nearly 40 Division I programs sponsor women's bowling as an intercollegiate sport.
The YSU Board of Trustees approved a five-year Gender Equity Plan in 2009 that included adding another women’s sport program as a component of the plan to comply with Title IX.
Individuals who would like to apply for the position of Head Women’s Bowling Coach need to meet the minimum requirements and submit an application at https://jobs.ysu.edu/postings/1442
Questions should be directed to Assistant Director of Athletics Jesse Potter at jwpotter@ysu.edu
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