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ballah09 wrote:Jerry jokers and the students need to take notes from the Liberty of the west in GCU. That's a real student section.Pretty cool huh? They are getting a lot of love from the ESPN crew. I went to school with a guy who is a Dean out there. They have a lot of similarities to LU. But they are For Profit. Their campus is awesome. You can see the old trailer park but the new section is amazing
Sly Fox wrote:They applied to go back to non-profit status but were turned down this past year. But they have really developed into a quality DI school rather quickly.Yep. They are specifically steering away from football. Smart move on their part. But in the Online Ed World they are LU's closest competitor. U of Phoenix is a different model. But GCU is pretty much identical
ballah09 wrote:The facilities that they're currently building rivals Liberty's and a lot of P5 schools. Beautiful. Such a shame their investors wil probably never allow them to go non profit because If you read their mission statement, you would've thought it was LU's. Their online model is very good as well. Arizona state took it for their online program.And it's Phoenix. Lots of other options for things to do there. The ESPN guys were gushing about it all night. I guarantee Game Day will be there next year
But yeah that student section was beautiful. It wasn't tough for them to go out one day of the week to support their basketball team.
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ballah09 wrote:Thinking about the student section. I just hope someone starts a club dedicated to building a student section. I mean like the clubs that show up at events recruiting current and new students. Have weekly meetings, get funding from the school, etc... The jokers are so unorganized and any sport other than football is hard for them. There is nothing. The basketball team is lucky to get a shout out in convo.
Hopefully someone steps up next year.