ghs84 10 Report Share Posted May 27, 2007 a football team together?thats what i heard.any truth to it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluefield_Rules 46 Report Share Posted May 27, 2007 They've been exploring it for about a year now. It's my understanding that have setup an official panel to explore the idea further. Bluefield College may very well get a football team when the B-arons finally go under... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMan 3,569 Report Share Posted May 27, 2007 [ QUOTE ] They've been exploring it for about a year now. It's my understanding that have setup an official panel to explore the idea further. Bluefield College may very well get a football team when the B-arons finally go under... [/ QUOTE ] Bluefield College can't afford a football team... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCRAM55 11 Report Share Posted May 29, 2007 They need to focus on getting all their sport comptive before they get a football. The only waty I see Football is if their confenerce goes to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beano5 14 Report Share Posted May 29, 2007 well their soccer team did win a national championship a year or two ago and their men's basketball team is usually very competitive and up near the top of the conference...so i dont know what sports need to get competitive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCRAM55 11 Report Share Posted May 29, 2007 Grils Basketball, Softball and Baseball seem to need some work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beano5 14 Report Share Posted May 29, 2007 that all comes with the recruiting... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghs84 10 Author Report Share Posted May 29, 2007 i dont know about everyone else but i would like to see them get a football team started. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLU 10 Report Share Posted May 29, 2007 Just like BSC. It will never happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
futbolking 766 Report Share Posted May 29, 2007 [ QUOTE ] Grils Basketball, Softball and Baseball seem to need some work [/ QUOTE ] Apparently, they need to focus on academics as well... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLU 10 Report Share Posted May 29, 2007 Lets me see ya What? ya grils ya grils Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCRAM55 11 Report Share Posted May 30, 2007 What do you mean by this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
futbolking 766 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 [ QUOTE ] They need to focus on getting all their sport comptive before they get a football. The only waty I see Football is if their confenerce goes to it. [/ QUOTE ]That’s what I mean by all this…â€Âgril†friend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghs84 10 Author Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 [ QUOTE ] Just like BSC. It will never happen. [/ QUOTE ] your right.but i wish they would at least give it it a shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMan 3,569 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Just like BSC. It will never happen. [/ QUOTE ] your right.but i wish they would at least give it it a shot. [/ QUOTE ] Would never get a return on their investment...would take FOREVER to recoup the millions they need to invest to get things going... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tid_Bit 10 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Just like BSC. It will never happen. [/ QUOTE ] your right.but i wish they would at least give it it a shot. [/ QUOTE ] Would never get a return on their investment...would take FOREVER to recoup the millions they need to invest to get things going... [/ QUOTE ] They said the same thing about Clinch Valley College. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMan 3,569 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Just like BSC. It will never happen. [/ QUOTE ] your right.but i wish they would at least give it it a shot. [/ QUOTE ] Would never get a return on their investment...would take FOREVER to recoup the millions they need to invest to get things going... [/ QUOTE ] They said the same thing about Clinch Valley College. [/ QUOTE ] But didn't they have a wealthy coal operator with extremely deep pockets to help get them started??? Don't know many people like that associated with Bluefield College...other than the Shott family and I don't expect them to "foot" the bill for a football team... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMan 3,569 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 Bluefield College Continues to Study the Feasibility of Football (May 24, 2007) Bluefield College is one step closer to determining whether football will or will not return to the BC campus for the first time since the early-1940s. Building on progress initiated during its last meetings in October of 2006, the Bluefield College Board of Trustees endorsed a resolution this spring to continue the exploration of the idea of launching a new football team. Last fall, the Board created a Football Feasibility Study Group (FFSG) to conduct extensive research on the viability of football. Since then, the FFSG has conducted studies of four similar colleges that have created football within the past two to seven years and consulted with Dr. Richard Kaiser, athletics director at Defiance College who holds more than 35 years of experience as a college football coach and AD, and Dr. James Davis, longtime president of Shenandoah University who for years opposed football at his institution before creating a program seven years ago. The FFSG also solicited input from administrators from nearly 100 Christian colleges and distributed a variety of surveys to gather feedback from Bluefield College constituents, including faculty, staff, students, alumni, and community friends. In addition, the Study Group explored the financial aspects related to a football program and the facilities required to maintain the gridiron sport. After carefully reviewing the findings of the FFSG, the Board decided during its spring 2007 session to create a new Football Task Force to continue to explore the idea of football and to consider the feasibility of obtaining resources to fund a football program. “The primary purpose of this new Task Force will be to explore options that might serve as funding sources for a new football program,†said Dr. Dan Grabeel, chairman of the BC Board of Trustees. “Funding options must be identified before the trustees approve an initiative on football.†Estimating start-up costs to be in the neighborhood of $2 million, based on the Football Feasibility Study Group's findings, the new Football Task Force, comprised of members of the administration and the Board of Trustees, will continue to explore the feasibility of football at BC, specifically, this time, the viability of obtaining the necessary resources to launch a football program. “Whether we begin a new football program or not, this study has been an extremely valuable process for Bluefield College,†said Interim President Charles Warren. “We've learned a lot about the college and our constituencies.†Not since the early 1940s when students cheered for the “Fighting Deacons†and “Ramblin' Reds†has an intercollegiate football squad competed for Bluefield College. The school created its first gridiron team during its infancy, 1922, when not only basketball, baseball, tennis and track were a part of the extracurricular mix, but also wrestling and boxing. After serving during its early existence, according to BC history, “as a sparring partner†for the more established college football programs, the Ramblin' Reds enjoyed much success in the 1930s under the capable leadership of Coach Mullie Lenore. However, the college had to scrap its football program shortly after the start of World War II when, according to BC history, “not enough men were available to sport a gridiron team.†Today, some 60 years later, the administration of the college readily admits that one of the primary motivations behind the idea of bringing football back to BC is to increase enrollment on campus, a common objective, said Dr. Warren, by some 50 other small colleges that have launched football in recent years. Studies show that a football program typically brings at least 75 new students to a college campus. “We are trying to conduct a very thorough study,†Dr. Warren added. “We're trying to do our homework. We don't have any pre-formed conclusions. We are gathering insight from people who will give us both sides. If we do bring back football, we want to make sure our academic integrity and our Christian values are not only maintained, but enhanced.†Bluefield College currently fields nine intercollegiate athletic sports teams, -- men's baseball, basketball, golf, junior varsity basketball and soccer, and women's basketball, soccer, softball and volleyball -- competing in the Appalachian Athletic Conference (AAC) and the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Division II. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMan 3,569 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 UVa-Wise benefactor Carl Smith dies The Coalfield Progress December 13, 2005 Smith was instrumental in establishing the football program at UVa-Wise by providing much of the seed money to start the team that played its first season in 1991. Smith, a former University of Virginia football player, and his wife Hunter, later donated more than $5 million toward the start and completion of the state-of-the-art UVa-Wise football stadium that bears his name. Smith is survived by his wife of 53 years, Hunter J. Smith; three children, Carl Vicars Smith, Stuart Peyton Smith and Hunter Smith Croson; and one grandson, Corey Carter Croson. After graduating from Wise High School in the late 1940s, Smith took advantage of a football scholarship to enroll at the University of Virginia. He played guard on UVa's football team before receiving his degree in economics from the College of Arts & Sciences in 1951. Smith founded AMVEST Corp. in 1961 and ran the company that included coal mining, natural gas production and finance operations until his retirement in 2004. Smith became one of the state's wealthiest businessmen, but he never lost his love for the game that led him to the University of Virginia, nor did he forget his roots in Southwest Virginia. While active in numerous organizations, Smith served as a director of the National Mining Association, as well as a director of the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame. Involved as a financial supporter of the UVa-Wise football program even before the hiring of Bill Ramseyer as the Highland Cavaliers' first coach, Smith announced in 1997 that would donate half of the funds needed to build an on-campus football stadium at UVa-Wise as part of his overall gift of $25 million to the University of Virginia for its refurbishing of Scott Stadium in Charlottesville. Smith pledged another $3 million toward the completion of the UVa-Wise Stadium in 2002. In addition to his gifts to the athletics programs at UVa-Wise, the Smith family has generously supported the schools of architecture, law, medicine and business; the Children's Medical Center; the performing arts center; the marching band; and the Jefferson Scholars program at the University of Virginia. "Carl Smith came to the University of Virginia in the late 1940s and, in many ways, never left," said University of Virginia President John T. Casteen III in a statement on the university's athletics web site. "He created a life here with his beloved wife Hunter and made Charlottesville his home. His devotion to all aspects of the University is legendary, in particular his unabashed enthusiasm for athletics." A memorial service for Smith was held Monday at the University of Virginia Chapel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KINGPIN 10 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 I can see them now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hacker 82 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 Now Carl Smith had a few spare dollars he could donate to such causes. Maybe BC has someone with that kind of cash on the alumni list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMan 3,569 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 [ QUOTE ] Now Carl Smith had a few spare dollars he could donate to such causes. Maybe BC has someone with that kind of cash on the alumni list. [/ QUOTE ] Nope... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
land_rider 30 Report Share Posted June 1, 2007 Until they get and AD that knows whats going on,they will not win in Girls sports period.This new president should replace this person now,and the community would support a winner,but not this person,what a loser.Records speak for themselfs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kobidog2003 10 Report Share Posted June 1, 2007 The AD dont care about anything but looking good herself, did you see on their website where she had volunteered to be a secretary for the NCCAA. She acted like this was a big deal but it was a ploy to divert attention away from her pitiful record as a coach. If they want to increase enrollment, get an AD that cares about things other than herself! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCRAM55 11 Report Share Posted June 1, 2007 Did you have something against the coach? Of course they are not good and I don't know why she wouls be the AD and Coach except that maybe Bluefield College is trying to have someone with Charcter lead the program. Bluefiled has had it's share of shade people like (Coach Blevins and Coach Fisher) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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