Earle
Well-Known Member
Just realized that only 3 teams still offer Men's golf although it is a SWAC-sponsored sport. Only ASU, PV, and UAPB still offer the sport. So then, why would it still be a conference-sponsored sport? I just believe that if fewer than half the teams in the conference offer the sport, it shouldn't any longer be a conference-sponsored sport. If only 3 teams offer the sport, then those 3 teams get higher points towards the all-sports trophy because its only 3 of them. Take Alabama State, they have won the Commish Cup, which represents the best overall athletic program, for approximately the last 6 years. But hardly anyone thinks of Alabama State as this powerhouse program in SWAC or hbcudom because its men's athletics have not performed well in the major sports of football, basketball, and baseball In recent years. That program has not won in football, basketball, or baseball in years. But yet it has won the Commish Cup because it has racked up points minor sports such as bowling, X-country, tennis, softball, indoor and outdoor track and field and the like. Should an athletic program (men) be awarded for having the best program when it can't compete in football, basketball, or baseball? Look at SU! It finished 5th in the rnkings for the Frank award. But if it had just fielded teams in golf and tennis made up of just non-scholarship students, it would have gotten points for just having a team and would have added another 4 to 8 points to its number totals and could have jumped to as high as 4th or3rd place. A system such as ours does not incentivise a program such as ASU to perform better in the major sports.
