M Rowing wins 7th straight National Championship
Once again, for the SEVENTH straight year, Michigan Men's Rowing has won the ACRA National Championship!
Michigan Rowing has been a Varsity Club since Bill Martin created the special designation in 2000. With the success of the Men's club lacrosse program causing it to jump to NCAA level (along with adding a women's program from scratch), I really wouldn't be surprised to see Men's Rowing become one of the next varsity sports here.
Due to Title IX, they'd need to add a Women's sport along with it. Since Triathlon and Sand Volleyball were named emerging sports and were given the green light to become official NCAA sports in a few years, I wouldn't be surprised to see one of those added to balance it out. Sand Volleyball is essentially an extension of Volleyball season.
Michigan Men bring home 7th straight National Team Championship Title! Overall team points trophy and small boats trophy! #rowblue
— Michigan Rowing (@michiganrowing) May 26, 2014Does anyone know if mens/womens track and field is still going? I can't find a list anywhere of the teams that made it to the postseason.
http://www.ncaa.com/championships/trackfield-outdoor-men/d1
Assuming you can get to the womens tickets through the same link.
It looks like a list of individuals. How do they determine which team wins the national championship?
But you get points for placing in every event in track and field. Most points at the end wins (unlike XC).
It's scholarship for scholarship, and I don't know the numbers off the top of my head but I'd assume beach volleyball would't cover those numbers on its own.
That's just noise though, congrats to the guys in the program on another title.
Its difficult to do with rowing, because the team is so big - more than 70 athletes on the roster this spring, I think. There was a plan floated a few years ago to have a core varsity program of nine scholarship athletes from the V8, and to maintain the club program along side it, but after men's lacrosse went varsity, that obviously fell by the wayside.
Yeah, but I could see them simpl divvying up the scholarships across more guys with crew. Outside of football, basketball, and (I'm guessing) hockey, most other varsity sports at UM have more competitors than full scholarships awarded. They'll just break up the scholarships into pieces where appropriate. But yeah, the numbers in terms of human beings probably won't match up if they add triathalon or sand volleyball.
If we're talking 70 people though the numbers aren't going to work without a bunch of women's scholarships added.
On a side note hockey is an equivilancy sport (shared scholarships) as is baseball. At the schools where those sports make money that's one of my biggest beefs with the NCAA/Title IX. It's insane that anyone good enough to make the roster at Michigan hockey or Texas baseball can't be offered a full ride while the AD can sell thousands of tickets and TV rights every night those teams play.
the NCAA recognizes men's rowing as a sport, which also seems like a minor hurdle.
The NCAA doesn't, but that doesn't stop Wisconsin from having varsity men's rowing. The Ivy League as well.
Yep. Same thing in cycling. Not an NCAA sport, but our club team competes against teams that have varsity status through USA cycling.
http://www.usacycling.org/collegiate-cycling-varsity-teams-and-scholars…
There is already an organized, "official" championship structure, though, in the IRA. Michigan raced as a club varsity team at the IRA (against fully funded varsity teams) until 2008 when the IRA voted to exclude club teams. This is probably the biggest reason why the team has been pushing for varsity status - the team is reasonably well-funded through team dues, alumni donations and university support - but without official varsity recognition from the school, they can't race at the sport's national championship.
Agreed.... I rowed in college, at an Eastern Sprints school, and we were just fine without the NCAA's oversight. And anything that jeopardizes shirt betting is a bad idea. Seriously, you'd be hard-pressed to find a rowing alum who doesn't still have a box full of betting shirts. Those things are worth their weight in gold to a lot of us.
adopted 4/26/07 effective 8/1/07. Link
10.3.1.1 Exception. [#] The provisions of Bylaw 10.3 are not applicable to traditional wagers between institutions (e.g., traditional rivalry) or in conjunction with particular contests (e.g., bowl games). Items wagered must be representative of the involved institutions or the states in which they are located.
Looks like it covers betting shirts, wagers between university presidents, and Floyd of Rosedale.
Also Ohio has varsity cheer teams which isn't NCAA sponsored.
so the rowing thing is only club?
It's awesome they are doing so well, but doesn't the "VISION" call for a brand new jewel encrusted indoor rowing facility with imported pools of Pope-blessed holy water and a 24/7 crepe & Jagemeisterr bar?
Dave Brandon has personally assured me that only top notch facilities can guarantee competitiveness.!
Women's is varsity.
Although I bet the men will use the facilities too.
That was the original plan a few years ago when they first started talking about it, and the men's team raised a substantial amount of money for it, but there's been some restructuring in RecSports that makes it unlikely that the men's team will be allowed to shared facilities as they have in the past.
But it will be a key element in enabling both the men's and women's teams to be more competitive, given the fact this is a cold climate area where rowing can't be done 5 months of the year.
The field hockey stadium will be done this fall which will be rewarded by a Big Ten Tournament there rewarded by Jim Delaney. Next year starts the Lacrosse stadium.
Here's the complete list of things to come-
- Ocker Field massive renovations - finished this Fall. Will host 2014 B1G Tournament and 2015 NCAA Semifinals & National Championship
- Lacrosse stadium/team facility
- Canham Natatorium will have a massive renovation
- Indoor & Outdoor Track competition facilities out by U-M Soccer Stadium to replace Ferry Field and the U-M Indoor Track Building which will be demolished to make room for a parking lot (WTF) and room for the new sports arena.
- Cliff Keen Arena will be demolished in favor of a new arena for Men's Gymnastics, Volleyball, Wrestling which will stand where the U-M Indoor Track Building is currently.
- Michigan Stadium will expand to an upper deck in the South endzone to bump the capacity past 120K (not official, but I know several stadium ushers who have ALL told me Dave Brandon told them this in their annual meeting).
If you want to see photos/the budget, check my post on all this stuff from last year.
At least the Cliff Keen work might be starting relatively soon, at least from some of the paperwork for our facilities that I have seen. We were out there identifying conduits in a few manholes a couple weeks ago in advance of a design to come, so our system underground folks are already involved in something for this project.
about any and all of the plans above, other than what I read on MGoBlog ands elsewhere. I have little reason to doubt any of what you wrote, WD, including what the stadium ushers have told you about Big House expansion plans.
I just can't see that expansion happening within the remainder of this decade, though, and maybe not for another dozen years or more. The demand has dried up for more reasons than I have time to post here (they've been discussed ad nauseum anyway), so even Brandon has to recognize that addtional seats would largely be empty seats until many factors allign to make the expansion sensible.
This isn't Fielding H Yost running the AD office. Brandon, even if he were half the visionary Yost was, doesn't have the nads to recklessly plunge forward with Big House expansion other than to continue to talk about it in such meetings to keep it on the radar. In the meantime, unless and until he learns to stop alienating the ticket-buying public, he won't be the man someday in charge of any such expansion.
It seems like it's a DEFCON 4 response to the threat of Texas expanding their stadium to the mid-100Ks like it's rumored to do since they have a whole endzone of room.
is going to happen. Right or wrong, the yearly football attendance crown is a source of pride at U of M. If you had asked me a few years ago, I'd have thought that our Athletic Department would be doing the right thing by pressing forward with that agenda, and making it a high priority to do it soon.
That, though, was before the maddening series of missteps and miscalculations by Brandon, a stretch of mismoves and mistakes that have in turn alienated a very large bloc of the Michigan faithful. Non-renewals among Michigan Football season ticket holders has risen sharply, there's no doubt whatsoever about that. This negative trend is the result of several factors, including, of course, the struggles on-field over most of the last half-dozen seasons. But nobody can pin it all on that or on the 2014 home schedule. Truth is, one helluva lot of fans are fed up with being squeezed for as as many $$$ as possible at every turn, with no end in sight.
And then there are the "Wow! factor" thingies, noodles, neutral-site game controversies, and on and on and on...
Big House expansion, while it will happen eventually, won't happen without first some sort of positive change in direction on many fronts. Including, quite possibly, the leadership itself. If the demand isn't there (and it honestly isn't right now), building a huge block of empty seats would end up being a very negative thing.
Plus where would our sand volleyball opponents be? I would imagine that initially there would be very few, if any other teams in the midwest.
- Nebraska
Others nearby:
- Notre Dame
Next closest is probably Alabama or one of the South Carolina Schools.
GO BLUE!!