Saint Francis as a D3 football school

[EnzoLigoniere]

Does Villarreal stay?
Does Marco Pcora?

Does it turn into a melting pot of local kids with support from the area?
Curious what anyone's thoughts are?

[LeeCorso]

Not sure about the coaches. Will they be able to maintain the salaries is probably the biggest question. I think a melting pot of local kids could be very good in D3 football. I think it’s a good move. Disappointing but smart.

[Manfred]

Villarrial has enough of a pedigree @ SFU and his Pro background he can go just about anywhere he might want, question is will he?

[stownJohn]

Saint Francis football was D3 from 1978-1992 so this is nothing new for them.

[knowitall]

St. Vincent has an interesting roster. I think St. Francis has its work cut out for them in building a D3 team.

[Manfred]

Saint Francis football was D3 from 1978-1992 so this is nothing new for them.

They wanted to be D1 in basketball, their bread & butter, so had to go D1 in a number of other sports to qualify.

[EnzoLigoniere]

Saint Francis University Coaches
The sports at Saint Francis are led by 23 head coaches, 9 of whom coach male teams and 14 of whom spearhead women’s teams. The average salary of the men’s team head coaches is $89,974, while the head coaches of women’s team make, on average, $55,840 per year.

There are also 58 assitant coaches of sports at Saint Francis. That breaks down to 30 assistant coaches of men’s teams and 28 assistant coaches of women’s teams. The average salary is $40,120 a year for assistant coaches of men’s teams and $23,996 for assistant coaches of women’s teams. Note, the individual salary of coaches is often dependent on the team they coach.

Krimmel with 3 winning seasons in 13 years, banking $200,000 a year, makes me wish my dad was an AD.

All these kids complaining on line, funny none of them care about the inequality in pay.

Or that the athletic budget was 18,000,000 a year.

[Colonel Mustard]

There are a lot of expensive DIII schools in remote locations that have no problem fielding teams. Kids like to play sports. I could be wrong, but this seems like a no brainer move for SFU. In DI you invest athletic scholarship money in kids that leave after a year or two and never look back. In DIII you shift that money (or some of that money) to academic scholarships and you get kids that stay and graduate and give back to the school. Coaches salaries will almost certainly go down and positions will be eliminated. Just curious where that salary info came from? As a private school I wouldn't think that is public info.

[Capnweird]

There is no way that a private school their size can be competitive in the modern NCAA D1 landscape. They can not afford to pay NIL deals, so whenever a kid shows improvement and talent those schools that can afford NIL deals will swoop in and they will transfer away. No big industry or business that I know of in the area to help them deal with this issue, so yeah, if they want to be more than just a glorified Jr College they needed some sort of a change.