@@jordandennis6794If only you could create a team in game, gotta use the stupid ass team builder garbage. They should've gone the 2k route, create a team in game with the ability to upload images to community creations.
They should have a university of Anchorage football program. It was said that it was three hours to Seattle by plane. Hawai flies at least six hours to the mainland to play their games.
@@Klanchey that's not even the problem... the biggest thing is the University struggles to pay what it has right now, adding more things would be worse.
Both Fairbanks and Anchorage basically shuttered their hockey teams and will very likely soon for real, so I don't think either will ever put much into athletics as it's a logistical nightmare. They legit stopped playing at times due to budget constrains. Even the Alaska Aces failed due to spending ~$400,000 per year, adjusted for inflation, just on travel never mind logging etc. despite the ECHL doing what they could to reduce costs for them and sides going to them. They are lucky to even have any sports at this point and likely won't in the future for anything with even the minimum costs.
For the state of Alaska to ever (keyword there; ever) have a college football program on any level, they would have to create such dynamic and forward-thinking business and marketing plans and establish a network of people who have deep pockets full of cash. Sadly, in this day and age, it takes a lot of money to compete in collegiate sports. Look at what's going on now with NIL, Transfer Portal, and the ever-changing financial rules of CFB. Alaska colleges need a big enough budget to work with, but also enough businesspeople who care enough about the state of Alaska. While as a fan I'd love to see the day Alaska competes on a football field again, realistically I just don't see it happening.
Both UAA and UAF still have hockey teams. They are independent currently. Both teams have proven they can fund raise to keep their programs in business. The biggest issue is travel.
I live in anchorage and we have a NAHL hockey team the Wolverines and they have games here all winter. Also a fairly competitive local MMA promotion we are doing alright for sports here. Lol
Fall Of Football at Hofstra University , when the New York JETS moved off campus ....Hofstra drop Its FCS football program, once the JETS team move away from Long Island...Hofstra was once Long Island only FCS team...Stony Brook University Seawolves has move up to FCS - CAA & Long Island University Sharks move from D2 to FCS-NEC...Many years ago Hofstra played Stony Brook for the Long Island cup in football...Now Long Island University Sharks football team has replaced Hofstra in Nassau county, NY as the only FCS football team in the county....
I attended maybe 11 Hofstra games. I had family in Long Beach and Point Lookout.Easy trip.I believe they did drop football twice, Then they brought it back a a D-3 team first.I saw them play my school Iona who was a club team then went D-3 before F.C.S. Fordham did the same route. Hofstra never filled the stands,and they were smaller. It is money! saint Johns was winning but to get to bigger time hoops dropped football. Why Iona did it .Iona was club when I was there for one year before I was called back into Army I tried out as the punter and made it. Cost me some money to play too. If I had been running Hostra, would have kept the sport.
There is potential in Alaska, they just need a dome stadium. If Hawaii can do it, Alaska can they have the people that want it. It won’t be a Mercedes Benz stadium but maybe a Ford Field style.
Saying the Alaska schools have no major sports is a bit of a lie, both have D1 hockey programs and can get teams like Penn State this year to come out for games. The problem is no one would want to play there out doors in the winter which would be the issue. Hawaii can manage to get games for instance because the weather is great and there is a football culture there to support the team unlike Alaska
Can you do the death, rebirth and rise of the college of idaho football they havent had a football team for 66 years till 2011 when they decided to bring football back and have been doimg well
I recall when I lived in Delaware maybe around 2000ish Wesley College which was a top D III program located in Dover, DE was promoting a game to be played in Alaska. Can’t recall who they were supposed to play or how far along the plans got but it did fall through.
Funding for athletics is an issue for both Alaska-Fairbanks and Alaska-Anchorage. The only Division 1 sport being played in Alaska is hockey. Alaska-Anchorage had cut the sport, but $3 million dollars in private donations allowed the team to survive. The whole University of Alaska System recently had something like $55 million dollars cut from their operating budget. During the last Division 1 NCAA hockey realignment, Alaska-Fairbanks and Alaska-Anchorage got the Oregon State and Washington State football treatment and now must both play as Independents, despite tradition and a strong hockey culture in the state. Having hockey teams take 8 to 11 hour flights to Alaska from the Lower 48 made both Alaskan teams unpopular with NCAA Division 1 hockey conferences. Other independent hockey schools like Long Island University, Lindenwood University, and Stonehill College will get invites long before either Alaskan program will get asked to a Division 1 conference. Trying to justify money on a Division 2 football team (hockey was grandfathered in as Division 1) is unthinkable. Better to put money into youth and high school football, so those with an interest and talent can play. It may not be a huge number but there are Alaskan kids playing scholarship FBS, FCS, Division 2, and NAIA football.
Had T.D.Y. at wainwright long long ago. It is expensive in Alaska, hard to get to, and Fairbanks has a way short outdoor athleic season.A.A, is just a little bit better. You need at least 80 players,20 support staff, minimum 7 coach's, expensive as hell equipment, and then to fly all of them, cover all costs, neither school has the money. Now maybe they could field teams on the N.A.I.A. level,or D-2. N.A.I.A. would be easier and cheaper and smarter. Plenty of teams to play a reasonable distance away. maybe play in a Canadian League.Football is football.
As a lifelong Washingtonian who has family who worked in Alaska and who wouldn't be opposed to doing so myself, and having talked to a bunch of people from the state, it essentially comes down to money, and not just money that the schools have. Alaska is basically West Virginia with ice; it receives massive amounts of federal funds to stay operational and is largely an extraction-based economy, with high turnover rates due to seasonal employment and a lot of people on some sort of assistance program. This is important because unless football becomes publicly subsidized, it's *extremely* expensive to be a top-level football player in the United States today. It's not just about costs to high schools and the universities, but the costs that families have to put up for years to support their kids playing the sport. What *could* work is the Alaska schools going to Canadian rules and joining U Sports. There's very little football infrastructure in the state--the high school league plays an 8 game schedule--so a code switch wouldn't be the wildest thing in the world, and also wouldn't be unprecedented (a lot of Canadian high schools play 4 down ball, with the primary outlet for 3 down ball in the pre-college level being the Canadian Junior Football League). It would be cheaper and closer to them geographically.
Hear me out… Honolulu-Anchorage (Insert Team Name) could work. 4 home games in Anchorage and 4 home games in Hawaii.. Why? Much easier to sell out 4 home games than 9-12 including playoffs preseason. Lol it’s all theoretical but is more realistic than Hawaii or Alaska having there own team id say. -Ted K
"Eskimo" is seen as a dated and offensive term for the indigenous people of Alaska and Northern Canada. In future, please use "Inuit" unless a source quotes it. That's why Edmonton renamed their CFL team to the Elks.
It's rather unfortunate that the state u call home happens to be a super hostile environment for any kind of sports. The only sport we have that we can call ourselves competitive in is Rifle, of which we have produced several Olympic gold metalists and the most NCAA Championships of any team. Other than that, we are pretty bad.
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Alaska Fairbanks should be in the Sun Belt Conference.
Makes sense geography wise.
I was in Fairbanks for 3 years (Army) and this would be totally perfect 😂😂
@@LxgxndsNeverDie lol
More like the Northwest Conference in D3, where the other teams are in Portland, Seattle, and Spokane
They should be in the ACC
Oh don’t you worry, the Seawolves of Anchorage WILL be hitting the field soon via college football 25
@@theCRzeno I'm sure the game will break and bug out more trying to create them in the game
@@jordandennis6794If only you could create a team in game, gotta use the stupid ass team builder garbage. They should've gone the 2k route, create a team in game with the ability to upload images to community creations.
If the state could fund a dome, Alaska could get a team. Their rapid cold temperatures isn't too suitable for everyone else.
I could maybe see that for UAF.
But for UAA it wouldn’t be any worse than schools on the Rocky Mountain Front Range.
They should have a university of Anchorage football program. It was said that it was three hours to Seattle by plane. Hawai flies at least six hours to the mainland to play their games.
Mad heads paying mad money to go to Hawaii, not so for Alaska
Being from Anchorage, nobody is showing up to UAA football games
@@Klanchey that's not even the problem... the biggest thing is the University struggles to pay what it has right now, adding more things would be worse.
Both Fairbanks and Anchorage basically shuttered their hockey teams and will very likely soon for real, so I don't think either will ever put much into athletics as it's a logistical nightmare. They legit stopped playing at times due to budget constrains. Even the Alaska Aces failed due to spending ~$400,000 per year, adjusted for inflation, just on travel never mind logging etc. despite the ECHL doing what they could to reduce costs for them and sides going to them. They are lucky to even have any sports at this point and likely won't in the future for anything with even the minimum costs.
For the state of Alaska to ever (keyword there; ever) have a college football program on any level, they would have to create such dynamic and forward-thinking business and marketing plans and establish a network of people who have deep pockets full of cash. Sadly, in this day and age, it takes a lot of money to compete in collegiate sports. Look at what's going on now with NIL, Transfer Portal, and the ever-changing financial rules of CFB. Alaska colleges need a big enough budget to work with, but also enough businesspeople who care enough about the state of Alaska.
While as a fan I'd love to see the day Alaska competes on a football field again, realistically I just don't see it happening.
UAF has not shuttered the hockey program, so your intel is a little off. The Nanooks are hitting the ice again this season.
Both UAA and UAF still have hockey teams. They are independent currently. Both teams have proven they can fund raise to keep their programs in business. The biggest issue is travel.
They stopped playing because our asshole governor is trying to cut funding for public schools.
I live in anchorage and we have a NAHL hockey team the Wolverines and they have games here all winter. Also a fairly competitive local MMA promotion we are doing alright for sports here. Lol
I signed a 4 star QB from anchorage
Vermont only has three D3 teams. I think they are the only other state besides Alaska that doesn’t have any D1 football teams.
But they DO have college football.
Fall Of Football at Hofstra University , when the New York JETS moved off campus ....Hofstra drop Its FCS football program, once the JETS team move away from Long Island...Hofstra was once Long Island only FCS team...Stony Brook University Seawolves has move up to FCS - CAA & Long Island University Sharks move from D2 to FCS-NEC...Many years ago Hofstra played Stony Brook for the Long Island cup in football...Now Long Island University Sharks football team has replaced Hofstra in Nassau county, NY as the only FCS football team in the county....
I attended maybe 11 Hofstra games. I had family in Long Beach and Point Lookout.Easy trip.I believe they did drop football twice, Then they brought it back a a D-3 team first.I saw them play my school Iona who was a club team then went D-3 before F.C.S. Fordham did the same route. Hofstra never filled the stands,and they were smaller. It is money! saint Johns was winning but to get to bigger time hoops dropped football. Why Iona did it .Iona was club when I was there for one year before I was called back into Army I tried out as the punter and made it. Cost me some money to play too. If I had been running Hostra, would have kept the sport.
There is potential in Alaska, they just need a dome stadium. If Hawaii can do it, Alaska can they have the people that want it. It won’t be a Mercedes Benz stadium but maybe a Ford Field style.
Saying the Alaska schools have no major sports is a bit of a lie, both have D1 hockey programs and can get teams like Penn State this year to come out for games. The problem is no one would want to play there out doors in the winter which would be the issue. Hawaii can manage to get games for instance because the weather is great and there is a football culture there to support the team unlike Alaska
Thanks for coming
Definitely would love to see Anchorage have a college football team. They do awesome in ice hockey
What a great educational video. Thanks brother keep doing what you do...
Can you do the death, rebirth and rise of the college of idaho football they havent had a football team for 66 years till 2011 when they decided to bring football back and have been doimg well
I recall when I lived in Delaware maybe around 2000ish Wesley College which was a top D III program located in Dover, DE was promoting a game to be played in Alaska. Can’t recall who they were supposed to play or how far along the plans got but it did fall through.
You should make a video on football in Vermont and why they don’t have D1 football
Funding for athletics is an issue for both Alaska-Fairbanks and Alaska-Anchorage. The only Division 1 sport being played in Alaska is hockey. Alaska-Anchorage had cut the sport, but $3 million dollars in private donations allowed the team to survive. The whole University of Alaska System recently had something like $55 million dollars cut from their operating budget. During the last Division 1 NCAA hockey realignment, Alaska-Fairbanks and Alaska-Anchorage got the Oregon State and Washington State football treatment and now must both play as Independents, despite tradition and a strong hockey culture in the state. Having hockey teams take 8 to 11 hour flights to Alaska from the Lower 48 made both Alaskan teams unpopular with NCAA Division 1 hockey conferences. Other independent hockey schools like Long Island University, Lindenwood University, and Stonehill College will get invites long before either Alaskan program will get asked to a Division 1 conference. Trying to justify money on a Division 2 football team (hockey was grandfathered in as Division 1) is unthinkable. Better to put money into youth and high school football, so those with an interest and talent can play. It may not be a huge number but there are Alaskan kids playing scholarship FBS, FCS, Division 2, and NAIA football.
6:03 played for Bartlett high school between 2000-2002
My ronnie price came from alaska for football.. he was nice... coulda made it
I had a created university back in the day on NCAA, the Alaska Polar Bears
8:15 they’ll just have to rebuild Sullivan arena. It could happen think about NDU or NDSU.
They’re my dynasty rn in CFB25
first time I’ve ever seen a video released about 4 seconds ago
can you talk about vanderbilt commodores about there history talking about them vandy
Had T.D.Y. at wainwright long long ago. It is expensive in Alaska, hard to get to, and Fairbanks has a way short outdoor athleic season.A.A, is just a little bit better. You need at least 80 players,20 support staff, minimum 7 coach's, expensive as hell equipment, and then to fly all of them, cover all costs, neither school has the money. Now maybe they could field teams on the N.A.I.A. level,or D-2. N.A.I.A. would be easier and cheaper and smarter. Plenty of teams to play a reasonable distance away. maybe play in a Canadian League.Football is football.
Can you do a rise of video on liberty?
You should do the University at Albany
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As a lifelong Washingtonian who has family who worked in Alaska and who wouldn't be opposed to doing so myself, and having talked to a bunch of people from the state, it essentially comes down to money, and not just money that the schools have. Alaska is basically West Virginia with ice; it receives massive amounts of federal funds to stay operational and is largely an extraction-based economy, with high turnover rates due to seasonal employment and a lot of people on some sort of assistance program. This is important because unless football becomes publicly subsidized, it's *extremely* expensive to be a top-level football player in the United States today. It's not just about costs to high schools and the universities, but the costs that families have to put up for years to support their kids playing the sport.
What *could* work is the Alaska schools going to Canadian rules and joining U Sports. There's very little football infrastructure in the state--the high school league plays an 8 game schedule--so a code switch wouldn't be the wildest thing in the world, and also wouldn't be unprecedented (a lot of Canadian high schools play 4 down ball, with the primary outlet for 3 down ball in the pre-college level being the Canadian Junior Football League). It would be cheaper and closer to them geographically.
can you talk about Wisconsin badgers about there history to
Hear me out… Honolulu-Anchorage (Insert Team Name) could work. 4 home games in Anchorage and 4 home games in Hawaii.. Why? Much easier to sell out 4 home games than 9-12 including playoffs preseason. Lol it’s all theoretical but is more realistic than Hawaii or Alaska having there own team id say. -Ted K
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Alaska hockey
South Dakota state just got their best HS player in years. Hopefully he is legit.
Why Minnesota has only 2 division 1 colleges
"Eskimo" is seen as a dated and offensive term for the indigenous people of Alaska and Northern Canada. In future, please use "Inuit" unless a source quotes it. That's why Edmonton renamed their CFL team to the Elks.
dude nobody cares
Okay Eskimo
It's rather unfortunate that the state u call home happens to be a super hostile environment for any kind of sports. The only sport we have that we can call ourselves competitive in is Rifle, of which we have produced several Olympic gold metalists and the most NCAA Championships of any team. Other than that, we are pretty bad.
Oh don’t you worry, the Seawolves of Anchorage WILL be hitting the field soon via college football 25