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The Georgia State football program has decided to move from the Colonial Athletic Association to the Sun Belt Conference. And in their transitional year of moving from I-AA to Division I-Big Boy football, the Panthers are taking their lumps.
The average attendance has dropped under 10,000 and the NCAA mandates that you need a three-year average of 17,000 or you can go on probation (or other really evil penalizing things) for up to ten years on the Division I level.
Not something they want to have to look forward to...
So, they came up with this promotion in the wake of their game against New Hampshire- a game in which GSU lost again...
Wonder what the meeting was like to drop $10,000 in vouchers from the ceiling inside the Georgia Dome was like...???
Here's the evidence...
300 GSU students were chosen to run around and try and grab as many of the vouchers as possible in a set time frame at half time. Presumably, to get people to wander by and see some really bad football.
Oh, 10-grand in vouchers were dropped...
The announced attendance was just over 9,000...
The HQ feels for Bill Curry and what he has helped build in downtown Atlanta. We also hope the ascent to the Sun Belt wasn't too far-too fast...
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Sunday, October 7, 2012
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
DEVELOPING: Curry Retiring From Georgia State After 2012
Not that the HQ is surprised or anything...
But we figured that this was more of an inevitability than anything else...
Bill Curry is retiring as the head football coach of Georgia State University's program after their November season-ender with Maine...
He will still work with GSU President Mark Becker and AD Cheryl Levick through the end of his contract at the end of fiscal 2013 as a consultant in the Panthers transition to full Sun Belt Conference status...
"The opportunity to start a football program at a university that I love, in my hometown, and the privilege to coach these young men has been one of the highlights of my career,” said Curry, who will turn 70 in October. “This has been a labor of love, but after this season, it will be the right time to step away from coaching. I am blessed with good health, but I am ready to move on to other things in my life and devote more time to my wife, Carolyn, and our children and grandchildren.
“I’ve said all along that I will fulfill my contract, and I intend to do that,” continued Curry. “I am completely committed to coaching this season, and I’m energized by this team and the enormous challenge ahead of us.”
Here was Curry opening the 2012 CAA season with his talks on Media Day...
((HT: CAAFootball))
"Following the season," Levick said at the press conference, "we will conduct a national search for our new head coach, but the focus now, and for all 11 games this season, will be on this football team, these young men, and their amazing head coach."
But we figured that this was more of an inevitability than anything else...
Bill Curry is retiring as the head football coach of Georgia State University's program after their November season-ender with Maine...
He will still work with GSU President Mark Becker and AD Cheryl Levick through the end of his contract at the end of fiscal 2013 as a consultant in the Panthers transition to full Sun Belt Conference status...
"The opportunity to start a football program at a university that I love, in my hometown, and the privilege to coach these young men has been one of the highlights of my career,” said Curry, who will turn 70 in October. “This has been a labor of love, but after this season, it will be the right time to step away from coaching. I am blessed with good health, but I am ready to move on to other things in my life and devote more time to my wife, Carolyn, and our children and grandchildren.
“I’ve said all along that I will fulfill my contract, and I intend to do that,” continued Curry. “I am completely committed to coaching this season, and I’m energized by this team and the enormous challenge ahead of us.”
Here was Curry opening the 2012 CAA season with his talks on Media Day...
((HT: CAAFootball))
"Following the season," Levick said at the press conference, "we will conduct a national search for our new head coach, but the focus now, and for all 11 games this season, will be on this football team, these young men, and their amazing head coach."
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Georgia State Commissions Look To FBS Football
Georgia State University has commissioned Collegiate Consulting to conduct a study to see how good an idea it would be to move to Division I for football.
Currently, the school is coming off a Division I-AA season where they're moving into the Colonial Athletic Association after a 3-8 year. The only opponent from the CAA the Panthers played last year was Old Dominion who they lost to 40-17.
From the Georgia State University folks their own selves:
“We are performing our due diligence to fully understand potential opportunities in the rapidly changing landscape of college athletics and particularly college football,” said Georgia State Director of Athletics Cheryl L. Levick. “We will evaluate the information in the feasibility study to determine the best course of action for Georgia State.
“No decisions have been made, and Georgia State has not received an invitation from any conference,” she added.
GSU turns full-fledged Colonial next year with 8 conference games along with games against South Carolina State, Tennessee, and Texas-San Antonio.
Here's the highlights from the GSU-ODU game from last year...
((HT: CAAFootball))
The logical place for GSU to go would be the Sun Belt Conference since the new commissioner, Karl Benson, is going to want to make a splash of some degree. South Alabama is becoming the 10th member this season and adding the Panthers long-term would give them 11 and a huge increase of households and market size.
Right now, Miami, Dallas, and Nashville are the three largest markets that have Sun Belt attachments. The Colonial was doing the same thing when they decided to add Georgia State after time in the Atlantic Sun and TAAC before that to give the league a footprint from Boston to Atlanta.
Interesting to see how this will play out...
Currently, the school is coming off a Division I-AA season where they're moving into the Colonial Athletic Association after a 3-8 year. The only opponent from the CAA the Panthers played last year was Old Dominion who they lost to 40-17.
From the Georgia State University folks their own selves:
“We are performing our due diligence to fully understand potential opportunities in the rapidly changing landscape of college athletics and particularly college football,” said Georgia State Director of Athletics Cheryl L. Levick. “We will evaluate the information in the feasibility study to determine the best course of action for Georgia State.
“No decisions have been made, and Georgia State has not received an invitation from any conference,” she added.
GSU turns full-fledged Colonial next year with 8 conference games along with games against South Carolina State, Tennessee, and Texas-San Antonio.
Here's the highlights from the GSU-ODU game from last year...
((HT: CAAFootball))
The logical place for GSU to go would be the Sun Belt Conference since the new commissioner, Karl Benson, is going to want to make a splash of some degree. South Alabama is becoming the 10th member this season and adding the Panthers long-term would give them 11 and a huge increase of households and market size.
Right now, Miami, Dallas, and Nashville are the three largest markets that have Sun Belt attachments. The Colonial was doing the same thing when they decided to add Georgia State after time in the Atlantic Sun and TAAC before that to give the league a footprint from Boston to Atlanta.
Interesting to see how this will play out...
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