Survive and Thrive

Survive and Thrive

  • Summer 2021
    • African Immigrants in America
      • African immigrants return to their roots
      • Balancing American lifestyle with family traditions
      • Entrepreneurship while adjusting in a foreign land
      • African Immigrants Seek Better Life In Nation’s Capital
    • Moving to the Adirondacks
      • Small businesses thrive year round
      • Housing crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic
      • Protecting Adirondack land and lakes
      • The overcrowding in the Adirondacks
    • Farmers Market Accessibility
      • Local Farmers Could Be Solution To Food Insecurity
      • Farmers Markets Just Got More Accessible
      • College Students Struggle with Food Access
      • Culturally Relevant Foods Grown by Young Adults Hit Local Farmers Markets
    • America’s Abandoned Places
      • Transforming America’s vacant spaces
      • Pennsylvania town goes from ghost town to apple orchard
      • Maine ruin turns to concrete canvas
      • Art Alley provides community space for creation
    • Farming in the City
      • What you need to know about farmers markets
      • What is urban agriculture?
      • How to build your own urban garden
      • Boston gardens are bringing awareness to urban agriculture
    • P-Town Film Fest Goes Hybrid
      • Outdoor screenings remain key festival component
      • Provincetown Film Fest comes back with virtual bang
      • Best documentary audience award proves even split
      • Intergenerational, international romance resides in Fox’s Sublet
    • LA-tina Business Owners
      • Communities come together to support for small businesses
      • Keeping in touch with roots in small business is essential in Los Angeles
      • LA County community sees importance in Latina-owned businesses
      • Latina small business owners cultural, social challenges in LA County
    • Discovering Russian Muslims
      • A Way to Oneself Through Islam and Marriage
      • Martyrs for History: Islamic Tatar National Movement
      • Pursuing the Lost Heaven
      • Being a Muslim in Russia
    • Air Pollution: The Silent Killer
      • Somerville residents confront pollution along I-93
      • Somerville’s environmental justice communities deal with brunt of pollution
      • Somerville leaders and advocates push for noise barriers along I-93
      • Air pollution inequality growing in Massachusetts
    • Public Art and Public Health
      • Protests planned over controversial Columbus statue
      • Boston’s ‘Joy Agenda’ plan seeks to heal the city through art
      • Rethinking Appeal to the Great Spirit
      • Improving a community through public art
    • Waterbury’s Opioid Epidemic
      • Overdose Response Technicians attempt to save lives
      • Waterbury Health Department Fights Overdose Epidemic
      • Volunteers help fight Opioid Epidemic, despite funding concerns
    • Maine Love Wears No Mask
      • Maine wedding industry flourishes once again
      • Future weddings in Maine: what’s to be expected
      • Maine couples are eager to get married as COVID-19 restrictions lift
      • Religious organizations are welcoming back the union of love
    • A Mighty Minority
      • Christians in Palestine resist too
      • Connected for life
      • Building a “glocal” community
      • Called beyond a title
  • Summer 2020
    • Blossoming in Survival
    • College Sports during COVID-19
    • College Enrollment Today
    • Dairy Farming
    • North End Dining
    • Back to School in Chelsea
    • Essential ‘Nonessentials’
    • Gig Jobs in the Pandemic
    • Tourism in Miami
    • Music Therapy
    • Neighborhood Businesses
    • Somerville Restaurants
    • The Ripple Effect
    • Turks in Massachusetts
  • Summer 2019
    • Abortion in America: Then & Now
    • After the Shooting Stops
    • All In the Family (Business)
    • Behind America’s Hometown
    • Boston’s Bakers Rise to the Challenge
    • Crossing from North to South
    • Down and Dirty in Boston
    • Net-Zero from the Ground Up
    • Happy Paradox for Asian Americans
    • What’s up in Boston’s Hip-Hop
    • The Underserved and Climate Change
    • Repairing Right to Repair
    • The Silicone Sickness Movement
  • Summer 2018
    • Come Hear the New Queer
    • Re-crafting Beer Culture
    • Gun Doves To Hawks
    • Korean Culture Hits US
    • Overworked and Undernourished
    • Boston’s Independent Theaters
    • The Power of DNA and How We Use It
    • How Women Rank in College Sports
    • Transgender Athletes: Prejudice or Positivity?
    • Blockchain and Bitcoin Outlook
    • Weeded Out
    • Perception of Veganism
    • More Than a Headache
  • Summer 2017
    • Aging in Boston
    • Boston Hair Care: Diversity & Choice
    • Climate Change in New York City
    • Listening for a Cure
    • Helping Homeless Stay Healthy
    • Study & Deliver
    • The Tech Divide: Teachers vs. Students
    • Together to Stop Youth Violence
    • Pretty hurts: Behind the clean beauty revolution
  • Spring 2017
    • Psychology of feminism
    • Ready to Lead
    • Running in Heels
    • Single Moms: Struggles and Hopes
    • Trips and Treatment
    • Unspoken and Untreated
    • Working at 50+
    • Zero Waste, Infinite Impact
  • Archive
    • Spring 2016
      • Accommodating Transgender
      • All in: Indian Gaming
      • Alone with Food Allergies
      • A Way to Innocence
      • Facing Anti-Muslim Hatred
      • Millennials Move In
      • Our Bodies, Our Struggle
      • Robotics: On a Limb
      • Service Dogs: Fact & Fiction
      • Staying on Pointe
      • Surviving Intimate Trauma
      • Two Homelands, One Love
    • Spring 2015
      • Back to Basics: Holistic Health
      • Beauty Expectations of Black Women
      • Boston 2024 Olympics
      • #BostonFitnessFads
      • Boston Mindfulness
      • Ca$hing in on Cyber$ecurity
      • Exposing Local Anti-Semitism
      • Families Serving Time
      • Fueling the Future
      • Helping the Homeless
      • Heroin: Beyond the Addiction
      • Mobile Language Learning
      • Overdose Oversight
      • Regrowing NE’s Country Roots
      • Robots Among Us
      • Self-image: Beyond the Scale
      • Styling Beantown
      • Tackling Combat Sports
      • The Algorithm Revolution
      • Through Boston Teachers’ Eyes
      • Toxic Nails
      • Wanted: More Women Leaders
      • World-Class Boston?
    • Spring 2014
      • Big Effect of Small-time Football
      • Bike Friendly Boston
      • Birth: Au Naturale
      • Bottle Bill Battle
      • Coastal Conversion
      • Deportation: Brink of Separation
      • Gay, Young and Homeless
      • Girls, STEM and Startups
      • HIV Positive Outlook
      • Immigrant Women & Domestic Abuse
      • Lost at 18
      • Nutrition Literacy
      • Recycling: 1 Bin or 2?
      • Reviving the Written Word
      • Treating Sexual Assault Remotely
      • Vinyl’s Comeback?
    • Fall 2013
      • Big Data in Health Care
      • Helping the Hungry
      • Lost at 18
      • Rehabbing Urban Wildlife
      • Startup Beauties
      • Sustainable Action
    • Spring 2013
      • Asperger’s in Adulthood
      • Chinese Grad Student Boom
      • Community in CrossFit
      • Death by Rx
      • Degreed and Underemployed
      • Geek is Chic
      • Growing Up Muslim
      • Nitrogen Nightmare?
      • Pit Bull Perception
      • Preservin’ the Classics
      • Right to Learn?
      • U.S. Women Made in China
      • Unsolved Gun Violence
      • Young & Homeless
    • Fall 2012
      • Better Workspaces
      • Black Beauty?
      • Broke Not Broken
      • Cheering Challenges
      • Going Social
      • Rainbow Religion
      • Style in Boston
      • The Play State
      • The Sporting Epidemic

Big Effect of Small-time Football

Everyone knows what Division 1 college sports is all about; it’s football, basketball, and maybe baseball at the big-time schools like the University of Alabama and University of Michigan. But who knows about Division 3 athletics? Division 1 football programs have revenues in the millions of dollars,. The University of Texas brings in $93,942,815 annually according to a 2012 study by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), but is there a similar financial impact with a football team at a Division 3 school? A few say they know the answer and that a Division 3 football team has a much greater and positive impact. But how?
Massachusetts is home to 46 Division 3 colleges and universities; 20 of those schools have football programs. Some of the 20 Division 3 schools that have football have just recently started in the last 10 years. Anna Maria College began its program in 2009, Becker College in 2005, Endicott College in 2003 and before that Mount Ida College started in 1999.
Adding a football program to small colleges provides more benefits than just increasing the school’s annual revenue. It can increase male enrollment, public exposure, and school spirit. But with the benefits come struggles. Adding a football program is a very expensive process for a school, often involving the addition of facilities, equipment, and staff. It can also change the school’s atmosphere for good or bad.
In a 2009 article by the National Football Foundation, when asked about the new addition of a football program, Anna Maria College President Jack Calareso said, “Adding athletics programs in general is important to enhance the experience for all students, and it’s great for our alumni and our community… For a small college, this has been a topic that has garnered a lot of attention, and it certainly helped with enrollment, helping us to recruit both athletes and non-athletes alike.”

This project will dive deeper into the reason several schools have started a Division 3 football program as well as the reasons some of the 26 other schools have chosen not to. It will look at the process of starting a football program and the struggles faced by athletic departments and coaches that come with it as well as its effect on the school’s students.

Small schools debate whether or not to start a football program

April 29, 2014 robert_sturgis 0

There are lots of reasons why schools start football programs or don’t. From the total revenue to the total expenses how does football ultimately effect small tuition driven colleges.

Division 3 recruiting for football proves challenging

April 28, 2014 robert_sturgis 0

Football coaches at the Division 3 level face challenges every day, but none are bigger than recruiting. Recruiting is what keeps programs alive and ultimately decides how successful a program will be year in and year out.

How to start a football program

April 26, 2014 robert_sturgis 0

The process to start a college football program is long and expensive, and for some schools it’s the reason why they stay away from the idea.

About the Author

  • robert_sturgis

    My name is Rob Sturgis and I am currently a second year graduate student at Emerson College. I am pursuing a Masters Degree in broadcast journalism. I have a great passion for sports and hope to one day become a sports commentator.

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