How many cis football teams

Back in May, I developed a plan designed to stabilize the CIS and put it in a situation where the improvement of each member school's financial bottom line would be much more likely. I call this plan the " year football fund.

Quite simply, football is the sport that has the most potential to generate revenue for CIS schools. If you look at per game attendance, football generally draws between and fans per game in CIS there are, of course, exceptions in both directions. Other CIS sports rarely break the mark at any game.

Football in Canada is the sport that has the greatest history of attracting large crowds. Hockey, for all its great support, doesn't draw 60, for its championship game or have teams drawing 35, to see any of their pro teams each week.

Certainly one can quite validly suggest that the smaller arenas prevent those numbers. I am certainly willing to concede that, but it doesn't change the fact. Canadians understand on a primal level that football CAN bring in large crowds—even in Canada.

Additionally, CIS college football has one thing going for it that CIS hockey would not—a lack of real competition for the public's entertainment dollars.

CIS hockey would have to compete against a well-established and comparatively well-funded and supported network of minor league teams. The Canadian Football League only exists in eight cities. That means there are only eight what I have named "Killzones" for football in Canada. They play an eight-game regular schedule and are divided into four regional "conferences":. Having four teams makes the AUS schools play head-to-head vs. That is slowing the development of football out there and unnecessarily costing money to those universities.

That money could be given to one of the 25 non-playing CIS member schools to start a football program. That number is possibly out of date.

This proposal turns a huge blind eye to the fact I don't have any idea which universities' leadership have a blind, unreasonable hatred of football. This is what a school might pay a couple of gardners or how much they might spend on a couple of scholarships. Moncton is the largest French-speaking school on the Maritimes. That would make it more tolerable for the Quebec schools to buy in, as it would be clear French-speaking Canadians would be treated as equal members and would make the program an easier sell to the French-speaking part of Canada.

It sends the message that this program is for all Canadians. They probably feel a need to prove they can support football, which considering enrollment and city size, they should be able to. On the slightly negative side, it is very close to Sackville—about a half hour drive.

As most CIS teams draw , per game today, even that could be a big positive, potentially giving Sackville an annual 6, standing-room-only rivalry game each year. Adding Dalhousie University would create two trips to Halifax for each Atlantic team—really not growing the market. In addition, more New Brunswick representation is called for than just a single team.

The University of New Brunswick is a good sized candidate, but doesn't have a stadium and is too distant for the immediate goal of cutting costs. Moncton makes the most sense. With Moncton, AUS would have five football-playing members and would be able to play a home and home series 2 games total with each member to make up their eight games. It would cut travel costs immensely and allow Atlantic teams to funnel the savings into promoting their programs to drive up fan support.

Let's say each school saves enough to hire someone to go out into the community and gives away an occasional free ticket to businesses or to sell the local community on the games.

It can add up. In my opinion, feeling isolated and paying large travel costs are as much or more of the issue than the oft quoted competition arguement.

Expansion of the CWUAA in BC to add teams in the other sports would help a lot, but rivalries cement affiliation and they won't happen in sports that pull a couple hundred fans in. I would gather the funds for three years and then sponsor three teams. All three schools have fairly large enrollments and have good sized communities without CFL competition.

SFU could be fast tracked to readmittance if they choose. I think they would. If not, I think it is in the country's best interest to have the government push SFU to rejoin.

That would create a five-team "conference" mirroring AUS. Let's call it the "British Columbia Athletics Association". The conference champions proceed to national semifinal bowl games: the Mitchell Bowl and the Uteck Bowl. The participant conferences of each bowl are determined several years in advance on a rotating basis.

The winners of each bowl game meet in the Vanier Cup national championship, first established in and named in honour of Governor General Georges Vanier. The game was held in Toronto every year through when host conference bids were first accepted, yielding a move to Hamilton for and , followed by Saskatoon in In , the game returned to Toronto, along with the Grey Cup , which was hosted there for the first time since The Vanier Cup game moved back to Hamilton in before heading to Quebec City for the and games.

There have recently been efforts at establishing new varsity football programs at institutions that currently do not have teams. A group of alumni from Carleton University in Ottawa have successfully revived that school's program that is now scheduled to return in The team will be a member of the Ontario University Athletics conference of Canadian Interuniversity Sport , returning football to Carleton University after a year absence.

There are post-season awards for on-the-field excellence. The players deemed to be the best at each position are named to the annual All-Canadian Football Team as first or second team players.

Additionally there are a number of individual awards for categories like "best defensive player". As of , the CIS had produced 25 players who have earned a spot on an NFL roster including three who did not play a regular season game; players listed in chronological order by entry year in NFL :.

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