Jacksonville University Drops Football

[Affirm]

Pioneer Football League member (now former member) Jacksonville University (Florida) has eliminated football. The decision was announced Monday December 3, 2019. The expense of having football and the negative impact of that expense on the other varsity sports were cited as the major reasons. The decision was described as being for the overall good of the university. The university spent “12 to 15 months”
exploring all options for what they would do about their football program. Dropping football was not a pre-determined outcome. JU has 4,222 students. Without football, they will now continue 7 NCAA varsity sports for men and 10 for women. They also have varsity sailing, “sporting clays, skeet, and trap team”, and JAX Esports (competitive gaming).

[Davemeister]

Think they have any players we should talk to?

[saltyshaker]

pretty sure pioneer league players are non scholarship

[FUBeAR]

pretty sure pioneer league players are non scholarship

Doesn’t mean they don't have PLAYERS...

https://www.jaguars.com/team/players-ro ... ald-payne/

https://www.chicagobears.com/team/playe ... c-saubert/

https://www.seahawks.com/team/players- ... son-myers/

[FUBeAR]

pretty sure pioneer league players are non scholarship

Doesn’t mean they don’t have Players (cont.)

https://www.49ers.com/team/players-ros ... s-dwelley/

https://www.detroitlions.com/team/play ... mal-agnew/

[AHB1188]

A friend of mine played football at Emory & Henry. Their version of playing an FBS school was when they played Pioneer League Davidson. As he has explained to me, Davidson would bring in scholarship athletes for track (or perhaps even another sport) who would also play football. So in a sense, it's not purely non scholarship.

I just thought that would be an interesting thing to add to the discussion. I'm sure they do still have considerable talent even without football scholarships to offer.

[sluggo]

Pioneer Football League member (now former member) Jacksonville University (Florida) has eliminated football. The decision was announced Monday December 3, 2019. The expense of having football and the negative impact of that expense on the other varsity sports were cited as the major reasons. The decision was described as being for the overall good of the university. The university spent “12 to 15 months”
exploring all options for what they would do about their football program. Dropping football was not a pre-determined outcome. JU has 4,222 students. Without football, they will now continue 7 NCAA varsity sports for men and 10 for women. They also have varsity sailing, “sporting clays, skeet, and trap team”, and JAX Esports (competitive gaming).

Funny how it's never too expensive when the football team is winning.

This reads like comedy : They also have varsity sailing, “sporting clays, skeet, and trap team”, and JAX Esports (competitive gaming).

I'm surprised they don't have varsity couch sitting.

[FUBeAR]

Pioneer Football League member (now former member) Jacksonville University (Florida) has eliminated football. The decision was announced Monday December 3, 2019. The expense of having football and the negative impact of that expense on the other varsity sports were cited as the major reasons. The decision was described as being for the overall good of the university. The university spent “12 to 15 months”
exploring all options for what they would do about their football program. Dropping football was not a pre-determined outcome. JU has 4,222 students. Without football, they will now continue 7 NCAA varsity sports for men and 10 for women. They also have varsity sailing, “sporting clays, skeet, and trap team”, and JAX Esports (competitive gaming).

I'm surprised they don't have varsity couch sitting.

Club team now; transitioning to varsity level in 2021