Football in Cal Poly Pomona

[PL28]

How come Cal Poly Pomona does not have a football team.. I read that CPP does have a pretty good student size base ~20 thousand.

[jayandbutton]

if you want to write a check for about ten million a year then we can have a football team. you might note that scholarship football in so cal is limited to the big boys only.

our cal poly north friends have football though. it's mid major. as i recall their biggest game this year is san jose state.

[sawagner]

I like to think that the Cal Poly (S.L.O.) team represents both campuses these days. I mean really, they were at one time the same school anyway. Go Mustangs and Broncos :-)

[lakdod]

They kind of represent both schools because if you look on ESPN and Foxsports there are known as Cal Poly. As for Football Jay is right there is no way we restart Pomona's Football team unless we get a 10 million dollar donation. Oh well at least Pomona have a good men's basketball team to root for.

Jay have you heard any news about the mens basketball team and Bakersfield possible moving up to Div 1.

[jayandbutton]

Originally Posted by lakdod

Jay have you heard any news about the mens basketball team and Bakersfield possible moving up to Div 1.

yep, bake has declared it is moving up. our school keeps sitting on its thumbs given that in just about a decade poly north, riverside, davis, and now bakersfield have moved. as a result we end up playing smaller and smaller schools, making our teams and university minor league by comparison.

as for roundball, we open the season at pauley pavilion as a program first. we also play at gerston arena over on the LMU campus but won't get the shot to premiere the galen center at USC. but we will play the trojans this year too.

in league play watch out for humboldt state. they return everybody back from a tournament team. we expect to be better this year given that the only impact player we lost was jonathon boyd and bring back plenty.

let's make another tournament run, huh?

[PL28]

I was thinking about going to one of thier games this year at the San Deigo State. Cal Poly are actually 2-0 this year with both shut out games.

[jayandbutton]

sac state this weekend, and they can beat the hornets.

but then don't plan for much up at san jose state. coach tomey has the spartans thinking a winning season and a bowl this year after almost whupping washington and then upsetting stanford.

but at least we can root for other cal state schools.

and san diego state plays at san jose state as does fresno state. those are the three best football programs in the cal state system.

[CPCube]

I heard that Cal Poly Pomona did have a football team back in the early 80s but due to budget cuts... we got screw.

Do you guys believe in any chance of getting a football team back in Cal Poly Pomona in the near future?

There has been an increase of student enrollment for the past several years. More and more students are living on campus which really shows that CPP is making good progress in attracting students to the university.

[lakdod]

I see us moving up to Division I in all of our sports before we get a football team back at Pomona. If you look back to a post from last year I think we discuss why we do not have a football team.

[PL28]

I agree, moving to Div 1 is an important step for Cal Poly Pomona to becoming better university. But it would be nice to have a football team to bring the student together also.

[Aristo]

What we need is a golf team!

[lakdod]

A golf team will be great eventhough I am probally not good enough to make the team. I was starting to break 80 during the summer, but thanks to the fall quarter my golf game really sucks.