Did you read the article? Their captain is now off the team. Has to be a big loss for them.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/N ... 28831.html

Well this should make the St John's matchup a little easier...

I mean you could conceivably take the Loyola or Yale spots. But not with this OOC schedule.

35,605 showed up for home basketball games last year. 21,325 showed up for football in 2009. I don't care how many more games basketball played- 15 guys got 50% more people to show up than 70+. That's how you wisely spend your money. "Focal point for the region"? Like Stony Brook has done?...

The schedule has been released. https://gohofstra.com/schedule.aspx?path=mlax For those of you that like local matchups, boy are you going to be excited. Those that like high caliber opponents.... oh boy. But there are three Big Ten opponents, 6 home OOC games (vs 4 on the road), and the three weekd...

There are WAY worse things than trying to emulate NYU. If you gave me a $4 mil budget, I could GUARANTEE I could get more than 1600 people a game for hockey. The club team attendance is crap, but guess what, the players on that team PAY out of pocket for it. In the thousands of dollars per kid. The ...

I am very surprised by the negativity about the possible return of the football program. My question is how are other eastern private colleges like Monmouth, Marist, LIU, Wagner, Sacred Heart, and others affording their football programs? The costs of their football programs cannot be that differen...

Wait, kids go to Sacred Heart now because of the football team? They average less than 1,700 people to their games, so I'm sure the atmosphere there must be ELECTRIC.

You want me to take video of me asking them? I am in Pennsylvania with them now. There is less and less support for teams on campus across the board. Student sections that used to be packed can now barely give them away. College football attendance is at its lowest point in 22 years. From an article...

I know about 20 current Hofstra students. All male, all athletes, but not NCAA SAs. They do not care, at all, about Hofstra having a football team. I can name about a dozen other things that USC has, as a campus, that Hofstra doesn't that would make kids want to go there. But go and ask those kids i...

But even if you do. If you want to see an apathetic towards sports student body, go check out Harvard Stadium on a Saturday afternoon.

I'm sorry, Hofstra competes with the Ivy League for students?

Oh boy.

Most? 3 do. Unless you think Hofstra competes with Columbia. St. John's, Manhattan, NYIT, Adelphi, NYU, St. Francis, Molloy, St. Joseph's, Pace, Touro, Five Towns, Berkeley... hate to break it to you, but that's who Hofstra is competing with for students right now. But sure, I guess people are going...

Same. The enrollment has been decreasing as people are finally catching on that they don't need to go to a private school anymore, and SUNYs are offering free tuition. It was said back then that the bill for the season was around $4.5 mil a year, and I'm sure that number has only gone up in 10 years...

We used to draw pretty well when we scheduled properly...attendance dwindled significantly when we played Saturday afternoons and not Friday nights. I remember playing Stony Brook on the Friday night of Labor Day weekend and we drew something like 7,000 people. We played UCONN earlier and drew more...

So the Islander have agreed to put 60-something games on 1050 AM, but WRHU will continue to produce and broadcast the games. https://www.newsday.com/sports/media/is ... 1.36834026

100% zero chance until Rab is gone. Now once that happens, I do have a small glimmer of hope something cool could happen. But it would take something major in terms of $, whether donor, partnership, etc. That said, when HU did have football, they routinely travelled great distances, coast to coast ...

The students don’t and won’t care. They could barely get them to show up when the basketball team played Villanova. If you think they’re getting out of bed on a Saturday morning to see them play Morehead State, I don’t know what to tell you. They don’t fly basketball to Virginia, good luck getting t...

There's no chance. Remember, LIU made this move as a cost cutting measure- they eliminated a whole bunch of teams that were duplicate between their two campuses.

It was also unprecedented for them to hold it a third time in a row- no other school ever had. Perhaps they were told it wouldn’t be worth their time/effort/money to bid again.