Does anyone else from CA think it’s an inappropriate use of money for a CSU to add men’s indoor and then fly around the country when we have no true winter season here. I was at a CSU 25yrs ago and I can’t help but think that the enormous tuition hikes are tied to this sort of wild spending. CSU’s are supposed to be the affordable public programs and shouldn’t be compared to UCLA and Stanfurd.
Does anyone else from CA think it’s an inappropriate use of money for a CSU to add men’s indoor and then fly around the country when we have no true winter season here. I was at a CSU 25yrs ago and I can’t help but think that the enormous tuition hikes are tied to this sort of wild spending. CSU’s are supposed to be the affordable public programs and shouldn’t be compared to UCLA and Stanfurd.
Nope, no one thinks that… adding a sport is subsidized by the NCAA… adding indoor will actually make the school money… but cal poly should probably cut football because that is definitely costing a lot of money that I would recon is not helping their athletic dept thrive. Though Fb donors I’m sure are a huge donor base to the dept and the college I would wager that without football the athletics dept could make some very dramatic changes for the better.
“adding indoor will actually make the school money”
how is this possible?
Schools get money for each sport they sponsor, like 40 grand… it will not cost poly 80,000$ (men and women, i assume they add both) to travel to a few indoor meets each year.
Does Fresno State no longer have an indoor track/do they no longer set it up?
I've never been to Fresno State's campus but I'm positive they used to have an indoor track. Here is a video of the high school indoor state meet in 2015:
Does Fresno State no longer have an indoor track/do they no longer set it up?
I've never been to Fresno State's campus but I'm positive they used to have an indoor track. Here is a video of the high school indoor state meet in 2015:
Sure, Poly has not competed in indoors for awhile, but they had athletes compete in the San Francisco Examiner Games, the Athens Games in Oakland, Sunkist in LA and the LA Times Indoor in the 70s. This is not the first time Poly has competed indoors.
Does Fresno State no longer have an indoor track/do they no longer set it up?
I've never been to Fresno State's campus but I'm positive they used to have an indoor track. Here is a video of the high school indoor state meet in 2015:
Fresno St. does not have an indoor track. No idea what venue this video is from.
There WAS an Fresno State Indoor track. It's no longer there. It was 145 YARDS around although it wasn't from the YARDS days. It's been gone a few years now but that's probably what that video is.
I don't think there has been an indoor track in Reno for at least 20 years. Can anyone confirm that?
I don't believe there is currently an indoor track in California anymore. Closest maybe Arizona? Or something in Oregon I am guessing.
Several UC and CSU Universities have indoor tracks. They probably aren't up to competition standards though. They're mostly three lane tracks around basketball gyms.
There are 3 other D-1 CSU’s with men’s indoor track and field, CSUN, CSU/Fullerton and Long Beach State so CP/SLO adding it is nothing extraordinary.
The indoor track in Fresno was formerly used for the Sunkist meet in LA. It didn’t belong to Fresno State. I think that it was rented by someone in the community. The meets were a joke and the only schools that went there were the ones that needed and extra counter.
The last indoor meets in Reno were in 2006. After that the oval was condemned which is what happens when you leave outside for 10 months a year. There have been rumors for years that they’re going to get a new track but I’ll believe that when I see it.
No UC’s or CSU’s have indoor tracks. Not even 3 lanes.
Does anyone else from CA think it’s an inappropriate use of money for a CSU to add men’s indoor and then fly around the country when we have no true winter season here. I was at a CSU 25yrs ago and I can’t help but think that the enormous tuition hikes are tied to this sort of wild spending. CSU’s are supposed to be the affordable public programs and shouldn’t be compared to UCLA and Stanfurd.
You're right, this whole collegiate track thing is just a big waste of money. The fiscally responsible thing to do is "hang 'em up" and go watch the football game so we can observe a proper capitalist sport.