LanderPoke
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Saw on Twitter UC Davis is set to join the MWC in all sports, but football. Why?? Why not just add New Mexico State in all sports
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UC Davis??
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Cowboy_Friar
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Davis is miles ahead of New Mexico State......
McPeachy
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Would love to have your thoughts on this!
Cowboy_Friar
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Davis has a larger alumni base than NMSU, is in a better market with less overlap (NMSU is in El Paso with UTEP.) Davis' athletic budget ($40 million) is larger than NMSU ($37 million) even without FBS football. Davis is academically superior to NMSU is every way even though I don't think that is the most important thing. And finally, Davis doesn't have the stigma of an athletic department demonstrating complete lack of institutional control at various levels. NMSU's athletic department is radioactive....
All good points.
I was surprised to see UC Davis' attendance average was 1,250 for home games last season? It looks like they play in an arena that sits 6,000 for basketball. Ouch.
OrediggerPoke
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WAY better than what the alternative was - - Tarleton State.
LanderPoke
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Their sports kind of seem like a joke. Isn’t athletics the point?
OrediggerPoke
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It’s an Olympic sports add. It allows the MWC to continue to sponsor baseball, softball, gymnastics, soccer, golf
and tennis. Without the add, the MWC would be unable to field enough teams for certain sports to sponsor them.
It’s also a relatively easy travel destination that fits in well with SJSU and Reno for Olympic sports travel purposes.
I read some crazy thing yesterday.. UCD has one of the largest endowments of any FCS school, only behind the Ivy schools and Georgetown.
LanderPoke
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Makes sense
LanderPoke
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They are a very elite academic school along with all the other UCs
The campus is really beautiful as well. Tried to talk my step-son who was thinking of a pre-med undergrad into enrolling there.
ragtimejoe1
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Really, does it matter that much? It's not like there are tons of great options. I like it for Olympic sports.
OrediggerPoke
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We now have a for profit online diploma mill and one of the top research universities in the country in the new MWC. Crazy.
laxwyo
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Why do you keep calling GCU a diploma mill?
OrediggerPoke
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Because it’s how I would personally characterize their current education model and the value that many employers put on an online degree from Grand Canyon.
Ask yourself - do you believe a job seeker would be better off with an online degeee from Grand Canyon or a normal Bachelor’s from a typical state school like the University of Wyoming?
Itsux2beaewe
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I doubt many employers would care. Many aren’t requiring a college education any longer.
laxwyo
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I don’t think a bachelors degree is worth much except maybe from engineering type schools. definitely a use for college in those fields but zero for business and a lot of others. At some point, people will look at people who move somewhere and go to a physical college as suckers.
