<p>What are some of the larger universities in the U.S. that do not have football teams?</p>
<p>UMBC, SUNY Binghamton, I don’t know, there aren’t many big universities that don’t have football teams.</p>
<p>Saint Louis University</p>
<p>NYU! Of course.</p>
<p>true thank you all for your responses. Now I have a second and third question to ask: 2).How would one go about convincing their school’s athletic department to create a football team? and 3). Can a team that is division 1 in other sports compete at the division 3 level in football?</p>
<p>To answer your first question, it would take longer than the four years you would be in school to start up a football team. First you would have to convince the school that it would benefit the school financially and would get more people to attend along with much more. Then they would have to hire a coach which would take time, they’d have to find a venue to use, or possibly build one which would take even longer. Then they would have to get at least one, maybe two recruiting classes before they could actually compete. This would probably be easier to pull of at the D2 or D3 level than the D1 level.
For your second question, no. They used to let teams play up, for instance Johns Hopkins is D3 but their lacrosse team plays D1, but they no longer do that. Hopkins lacrosse team and other teams like that are still allowed to do it because they had those teams at that level before the rule was in place, but teams have never been allowed to play down.</p>
<p>1) George Washington University is a large school with no football team. Brandeis also has no football team.</p>
<p>2) Starting a football program
Two colleges that I am familiar with have started football programs in the last two and a half years: The College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, MN, and Lake Erie College, in Painesville, OH. </p>
<p>If you look on line, you can see stories about what it takes to form a football team from scratch. In the early years of a football program, you do not play against school in your own division; this is something you work up to.</p>
<p>It has been interesting watching the formation of the St. Scholastica football team. Both St. Scholastica and Lake Erie thought lack of football was contributing to their female students to male students imbalance, and thought football would help them recruit more young men as students, both as potential football players and as football fans who enjoy fall weekend football games.</p>
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A decision like this would be made at a higher level than the athletic department, since it would have a great impact on the funding of the athletic department. This would be a Board of Trustees level decision. You would most likely need to convince the Board that there are great advantages to having a football team. At St. Scholastica and Lake Erie, expected advantage was getting more male applicants and any side benefits that come with more applicants (possibility of admitting more students or of being more selective, for example)</p>