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Post by bobfolsom on Jun 9, 2023 6:56:58 GMT -5
Steve, I have to agree that in the recent years, our administrations at WCU have not considered our success in athletics as a top priority in their lists of goals in my opinion, but I think Dr. Brown does have success in athletics as one of her top goals.
Just a thought about the cups: I think the number of sports that your schools compete in would have something to do with your rank, so I looked up the number of NCAA sports that schools that were above us in the men's and women's sports, and found the following information:
women's sports: Furman has 9 women's sports, Samford has 8 women's sports, Wofford has 10 women's sports, Mercer has 10 women's sports, ETSU has 9 women's sports and UTC has 8 women's sports: Western Carolina has 8 women's sports.
Men's sports: Furman has 7 men's sports, Samford has 7 men's sports, Wofford has 9 men's sports, Mercer has 8 men's sports and UTC and WCU both have 6 men's sports.
In closing: I feel that our lack of success can only be considered by how we competed against UTC as we have the same number of teams competing in women's sports(8-8) and men's sports(6-6). and we scored below them in both.
GO CATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by bobfolsom on Jun 9, 2023 7:01:09 GMT -5
I went back and saw that we were 1 place higher than UTC in the men's cup, and 1 position behind UTC in the women's cup, so very competitive.
GO CATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by retiredcat on Jun 9, 2023 7:29:07 GMT -5
Bob, again not to belabor the facts, but if someone from the outside looks at the facts and money issues we face, WCU has been surprising competitive. The facts are Tennessee, South Carolina and Virginia (SoCon state supported institutions UTC, ETSU, VMI, The Citadel) fund athletics construction and the endowments at Samford, Furman and Wofford make ours look like chump-change. Then there is UNCG with 6,000 more fee paying students than we have and NO FOOTBALL to support. Plus, we have not had a Chancellor who supported athletics since 1984 (Cotton Robinson) until Dr. Brown came on board a couple years ago.
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Post by bobfolsom on Jun 9, 2023 7:36:51 GMT -5
Steve, thanks my friend. I am looking forward to visiting with you at EJ Whitmire in a couple of months from now, watching our Cats shock the conference with a win against a very talented Samford team.
GO CATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Admin on Jun 9, 2023 10:04:51 GMT -5
Just a thought about the cups: I think the number of sports that your schools compete in would have something to do with your rank, so I looked up the number of NCAA sports that schools that were above us in the men's and women's sports, and found the following information: In closing: I feel that our lack of success can only be considered by how we competed against UTC as we have the same number of teams competing in women's sports(8-8) and men's sports(6-6). and we scored below them in both. GO CATS!!!!!!!!!!!!! Actually, the number of sports a school sponsors does not have a bearing on the the cup standings...
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Post by Admin on Jul 9, 2023 9:49:44 GMT -5
...no one cares, so it's no need to keep this up with a sticky....
WCU athletics has been in the bottom quarter of the SoCon standings since the day WCU joined the SoCon.
Some things just never change...
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