Loyola (MD) Adding Football?

[Lehigh Football Nation]

Are they - and are they thinking about joining the Patriot League? Check out the analysis and judge for yourself.

http://lehighfootballnation.blogspot.com

[TexasTerror]

Bet Towson is keeping tabs on this one. That's a cross-town rival for the Tigers in out of conference football action. We know they have played Morgan State quite a bit as of late. Would help bring costs down for Towson if the OOC continued to be rather close to vest.

[Lehigh74]

I'm not with you at all on this one LFN. Frankly, I fail to see how admitting Loyola as a full member would be a positive step for the league.

[bostonspider]

Images of the planned facility

[TheValleyRaider]

Is there any more smoke to the fire of Loyola Football other than a connection to Holy Cross and the building of a new stadium?

I can certainly see 6,000 people going to lacrosse games at a school in the Baltimore area

[Go...gate]

No offense to Loyola, which is a fine school and probably a reasonable fit academically, but we can't add a stsrt-up program. Better we add an academically prestigious Division III which seeks to upgrade, as has been discussed here before.

Anybody ever consider Washington & Lee?

[DFW HOYA]

Anybody ever consider Washington & Lee?

W&L? Why not ask the school right next door, a school who would jump at the chance to play the likes of Army and Navy in all sports and averaged nearly 7,000 a game in football despite a 2-9 record?

[Seawolf97]

No offense to Loyola, which is a fine school and probably a reasonable fit academically, but we can't add a stsrt-up program. Better we add an academically prestigious Division III which seeks to upgrade, as has been discussed here before.

Anybody ever consider Washington & Lee?

Correct if Im wrong but D3 school moving up ? We still have 3 years left on the NCAA moratorium and then a D3 school moving up would take 3-5 years after that. Loyola is D1 and could move up right after the moratorium given the time it would take to establish a program.

[TheValleyRaider]

Correct if Im wrong but D3 school moving up ? We still have 3 years left on the NCAA moratorium and then a D3 school moving up would take 3-5 years after that. Loyola is D1 and could move up right after the moratorium given the time it would take to establish a program.

Really then, what's the difference? If they'd rather wait for a D-III, then the move-up would coincide with the time it would take for Loyola to start their program. If they were to announce tomorrow, it'd still be another 2-3 years at least before they could even field a team, forget any level of real competitiveness. Given that as far as we know, their football ambitions are limited to LFN's musings, they likely wouldn't even sniff a program for another 4-5 years anyway

Of course, I'm still holding out hope for the PL to take RPI when they jump to D-I

I'd be willing to take VMI given their profile, but their overall athletic program.....

[Dane96]

RPI is not going DI