2024 T&F Championships

[hapapp]

The Men finished 4th, one point from third and the Women were 6th. The Men improved by one spot and 15 points over last year. The Women improved four spots after finishing dead last in 2023.

[Stonewall]

Shows promise.

[MrCraig]

I know exceedingly little about collegiate track and field. Obviously, I want App to win first place in everything. Looking at the final standings, I'm happy to see App finished ahead of all the teams we consider rivals on the men's side, and Marshall was the only rival ahead of App on the women's side. Just one more thing we can hang over GA Southern and JMU.

[hapapp]

I know exceedingly little about collegiate track and field. Obviously, I want App to win first place in everything. Looking at the final standings, I'm happy to see App finished ahead of all the teams we consider rivals on the men's side, and Marshall was the only rival ahead of App on the women's side. Just one more thing we can hang over GA Southern and JMU.

It is often a depth issue for us. We are very deep on the distance races with our strong XC program. We don't have a lot of depth in the field events and some non distance running events. Hopefully, our new track will help with recruiting.

[ASU84]

I know exceedingly little about collegiate track and field. Obviously, I want App to win first place in everything. Looking at the final standings, I'm happy to see App finished ahead of all the teams we consider rivals on the men's side, and Marshall was the only rival ahead of App on the women's side. Just one more thing we can hang over GA Southern and JMU.

It is often a depth issue for us. We are very deep on the distance races with our strong XC program. We don't have a lot of depth in the field events and some non distance running events. Hopefully, our new track will help with recruiting.

How does our track stack up against the rest of the Sun Belt? I would like to assume since it's new that it is top of the line.

[NewApp]

Men's Team Standings
1.South Alabama – 143 points
2. Texas State – 118 points
3. Louisiana – 99 points
4. App State – 98 points
5. Arkansas State – 90 points
6. Southern Miss – 86 points
7. Coastal Carolina – 74 points
8. ULM – 59 points
9. Troy – 41 points
10. Marshall – 10 points

Women's Team Standings
1. Texas State – 120.2 points
2. Louisiana – 115.7 points
3. Arkansas State – 92 points
4. Southern Miss – 90.2 points
5. Marshall – 71.2 points
6. App State – 53.2 points
7. Georgia Southern – 48 points
8. ULM – 46 points
9. Georgia State – 44 points
10. Coastal Carolina – 43 points
11. James Madison – 30 points
12. South Alabama – 35.5 points
13. Troy – 19 points

[hapapp]

Men's Team Standings
1.South Alabama – 143 points
2. Texas State – 118 points
3. Louisiana – 99 points
4. App State – 98 points
5. Arkansas State – 90 points
6. Southern Miss – 86 points
7. Coastal Carolina – 74 points
8. ULM – 59 points
9. Troy – 41 points
10. Marshall – 10 points

Women's Team Standings
1. Texas State – 120.2 points
2. Louisiana – 115.7 points
3. Arkansas State – 92 points
4. Southern Miss – 90.2 points
5. Marshall – 71.2 points
6. App State – 53.2 points
7. Georgia Southern – 48 points
8. ULM – 46 points
9. Georgia State – 44 points
10. Coastal Carolina – 43 points
11. James Madison – 30 points
12. South Alabama – 35.5 points
13. Troy – 19 points

I think he’s referring to the facility.

[Stonewall]

Interesting that there are only ten men’s teams. As it appears above.

[MrCraig]

Interesting that there are only ten men’s teams. As it appears above.

I did some quick internet sleuthing, and what's above appears to be correct. Some schools, including both Georgia schools, don't have a men's track team, but they do have a women's track team. I wonder why that is. Title IX? Lack of participation? Budgets?

[hapapp]

Interesting that there are only ten men’s teams. As it appears above.

I did some quick internet sleuthing, and what's above appears to be correct. Some schools, including both Georgia schools, don't have a men's track team, but they do have a women's track team. I wonder why that is. Title IX? Lack of participation? Budgets?

I'd bet it's Title IX.

[NewApp]

Men's Team Standings
1.South Alabama – 143 points
2. Texas State – 118 points
3. Louisiana – 99 points
4. App State – 98 points
5. Arkansas State – 90 points
6. Southern Miss – 86 points
7. Coastal Carolina – 74 points
8. ULM – 59 points
9. Troy – 41 points
10. Marshall – 10 points

Women's Team Standings
1. Texas State – 120.2 points
2. Louisiana – 115.7 points
3. Arkansas State – 92 points
4. Southern Miss – 90.2 points
5. Marshall – 71.2 points
6. App State – 53.2 points
7. Georgia Southern – 48 points
8. ULM – 46 points
9. Georgia State – 44 points
10. Coastal Carolina – 43 points
11. James Madison – 30 points
12. South Alabama – 35.5 points
13. Troy – 19 points

I think he’s referring to the facility.

Wasn't replying to anyone in particular.. Just posting the results in text form w/o the link.

[MrCraig]

Interesting that there are only ten men’s teams. As it appears above.

I did some quick internet sleuthing, and what's above appears to be correct. Some schools, including both Georgia schools, don't have a men's track team, but they do have a women's track team. I wonder why that is. Title IX? Lack of participation? Budgets?

I'd bet it's Title IX.

I'm far from an expert on this, but what men's sport would those schools have that would require a women's track team as counterpart? I guess maybe they have a men's soccer team but not a women's, so they have women's track but no men's track? I'm curious, but not curious enough to research lol.

[hapapp]

Interesting that there are only ten men’s teams. As it appears above.

I did some quick internet sleuthing, and what's above appears to be correct. Some schools, including both Georgia schools, don't have a men's track team, but they do have a women's track team. I wonder why that is. Title IX? Lack of participation? Budgets?

I'd bet it's Title IX.

I'm far from an expert on this, but what men's sport would those schools have that would require a women's track team as counterpart? I guess maybe they have a men's soccer team but not a women's, so they have women's track but no men's track? I'm curious, but not curious enough to research lol.

I don't think its one for one necessarily. Keep in mind it requires a number of women's sports to equate one football team of 85 scholarships.

[/\PP ST/\TE GRAD 09]

I know for a fact JMU cut men's track due to Title IX. They were at about 60% females enrolled, however only 50% of athletes were female. To bring that athletic number up to match enrollment as close as possible they cut some men's sports.

[WASU 93]

Interesting that there are only ten men’s teams. As it appears above.

I did some quick internet sleuthing, and what's above appears to be correct. Some schools, including both Georgia schools, don't have a men's track team, but they do have a women's track team. I wonder why that is. Title IX? Lack of participation? Budgets?

I'd bet it's Title IX.

I'm far from an expert on this, but what men's sport would those schools have that would require a women's track team as counterpart? I guess maybe they have a men's soccer team but not a women's, so they have women's track but no men's track? I'm curious, but not curious enough to research lol.

I don't think its one for one necessarily. Keep in mind it requires a number of women's sports to equate one football team of 85 scholarships.

GaSo and GaSt both have Men's Tennis and Men's Soccer vs. our Wrestling and Men's Cross Country (I assume some of our Cross Country scholarships are also part of the Men's Track Team)

GaSo offers Women's Swimming and Diving and Women's Rifle (vs. our Field Hockey)
GaSt offers Beach Volleyball instead of Field Hockey

JMU offers 6 Men's Sports (including Soccer/sans Wrestling) and 11 Women's Sports including Field Hockey, Lacrosse and Diving/Swimming. Most likely they dropped Men's Track when they had moved up to 85 scholarships in FBS.

In the SEC, Vanderbilt (which only offer 6 men's sports) does not have a Men's Track Team. But, they do have a Women's
Track Team (and also offer Women's Lacrosse and Bowling as part of their 10 teams)

The AAC has 10 men's teams and 14 women's teams (SMU, UAB, Florida Atlantic and Temple do not field men's teams)

There's always going to be an offset of additional women's teams to overcome the 85 scholarships of Football.

Title IX would require even more Women's Teams/Scholarships if Baseball was allowed to have more than 11.7 scholarships per team:
There will be a 40-man limit on roster size for Division I programs during the 2024 baseball season.

For 2024:
Up to 32 student-athletes will be allowed to receive a baseball scholarship – an increase from the normal limit of 27 in Division I.
The additional “counters” (scholarship athletes counting against the team scholarship limit) must be included in the maximum team limit of 11.7 scholarships and must be provided the minimum scholarship value of 25%.

[/\PP ST/\TE GRAD 09]

I did some quick internet sleuthing, and what's above appears to be correct. Some schools, including both Georgia schools, don't have a men's track team, but they do have a women's track team. I wonder why that is. Title IX? Lack of participation? Budgets?

I'd bet it's Title IX.

I'm far from an expert on this, but what men's sport would those schools have that would require a women's track team as counterpart? I guess maybe they have a men's soccer team but not a women's, so they have women's track but no men's track? I'm curious, but not curious enough to research lol.

I don't think its one for one necessarily. Keep in mind it requires a number of women's sports to equate one football team of 85 scholarships.

GaSo and GaSt both have Men's Tennis and Men's Soccer vs. our Wrestling and Men's Cross Country (I assume some of our Cross Country scholarships are also part of the Men's Track Team)

GaSo offers Women's Swimming and Diving and Women's Rifle (vs. our Field Hockey)
GaSt offers Beach Volleyball instead of Field Hockey

JMU offers 6 Men's Sports (including Soccer/sans Wrestling) and 11 Women's Sports including Field Hockey, Lacrosse and Diving/Swimming. Most likely they dropped Men's Track when they had moved up to 85 scholarships in FBS.

In the SEC, Vanderbilt (which only offer 6 men's sports) does not have a Men's Track Team. But, they do have a Women's
Track Team (and also offer Women's Lacrosse and Bowling as part of their 10 teams)

The AAC has 10 men's teams and 14 women's teams (SMU, UAB, Florida Atlantic and Temple do not field men's teams)

There's always going to be an offset of additional women's teams to overcome the 85 scholarships of Football.

Title IX would require even more Women's Teams/Scholarships if Baseball was allowed to have more than 11.7 scholarships per team:
There will be a 40-man limit on roster size for Division I programs during the 2024 baseball season.

For 2024:
Up to 32 student-athletes will be allowed to receive a baseball scholarship – an increase from the normal limit of 27 in Division I.
The additional “counters” (scholarship athletes counting against the team scholarship limit) must be included in the maximum team limit of 11.7 scholarships and must be provided the minimum scholarship value of 25%.

JMU's decision was due to proportionality and an evaluation of just too many sports in general. Occurred in 2006/2007, well before FBS rumbles.

https://www.jmu.edu/news/2006/09/29-pro ... f%20gender.

[AppWyo]

Interesting that there are only ten men’s teams. As it appears above.

I did some quick internet sleuthing, and what's above appears to be correct. Some schools, including both Georgia schools, don't have a men's track team, but they do have a women's track team. I wonder why that is. Title IX? Lack of participation? Budgets?

I'd bet it's Title IX.

I'm far from an expert on this, but what men's sport would those schools have that would require a women's track team as counterpart? I guess maybe they have a men's soccer team but not a women's, so they have women's track but no men's track? I'm curious, but not curious enough to research lol.

I don't think its one for one necessarily. Keep in mind it requires a number of women's sports to equate one football team of 85 scholarships.

This may explain one reason that UNC-G does not have football because of an enrollment of almost 70% women. https://ire.uncg.edu/facts/campus_profi ... Census.pdf
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/un ... 20students.

[MrCraig]

Interesting that there are only ten men’s teams. As it appears above.

I did some quick internet sleuthing, and what's above appears to be correct. Some schools, including both Georgia schools, don't have a men's track team, but they do have a women's track team. I wonder why that is. Title IX? Lack of participation? Budgets?

I'd bet it's Title IX.

I'm far from an expert on this, but what men's sport would those schools have that would require a women's track team as counterpart? I guess maybe they have a men's soccer team but not a women's, so they have women's track but no men's track? I'm curious, but not curious enough to research lol.

I don't think its one for one necessarily. Keep in mind it requires a number of women's sports to equate one football team of 85 scholarships.

Ah, that makes sense. I was thinking high school, where it's basically funding just by sport. I hadn't considered that at the college level the funding is based more on scholarships. Thanks!

[WASU 93]

I did some quick internet sleuthing, and what's above appears to be correct. Some schools, including both Georgia schools, don't have a men's track team, but they do have a women's track team. I wonder why that is. Title IX? Lack of participation? Budgets?

I'd bet it's Title IX.

I'm far from an expert on this, but what men's sport would those schools have that would require a women's track team as counterpart? I guess maybe they have a men's soccer team but not a women's, so they have women's track but no men's track? I'm curious, but not curious enough to research lol.

I don't think its one for one necessarily. Keep in mind it requires a number of women's sports to equate one football team of 85 scholarships.

Ah, that makes sense. I was thinking high school, where it's basically funding just by sport. I hadn't considered that at the college level the funding is based more on scholarships. Thanks!

Theoretically, I wonder if you will see any teams push the 85 scholarship limit or Title IX by offering NIL deals instead of scholarships and just have the "student/athletes" just pay their own tuition out of their NIL earnings. It could also change the face of the baseball scholarship limit.

[appst89]

I'd bet it's Title IX.

I'm far from an expert on this, but what men's sport would those schools have that would require a women's track team as counterpart? I guess maybe they have a men's soccer team but not a women's, so they have women's track but no men's track? I'm curious, but not curious enough to research lol.

I don't think its one for one necessarily. Keep in mind it requires a number of women's sports to equate one football team of 85 scholarships.

Ah, that makes sense. I was thinking high school, where it's basically funding just by sport. I hadn't considered that at the college level the funding is based more on scholarships. Thanks!

Theoretically, I wonder if you will see any teams push the 85 scholarship limit or Title IX by offering NIL deals instead of scholarships and just have the "student/athletes" just pay their own tuition out of their NIL earnings. It could also change the face of the baseball scholarship limit.

Already been done. A company in Utah gave all of the BYU walk-ons an NIL deal for the equivalent of the cost to attend. I believe there were 37 of them, so BYU essentially had 122 scholarship football players last year.