
Hanna and Westside have strong facilities, but Anderson University is fully invested in having its own space for the start of the 2024-25 season. The time in between announcement and play also lends time for the university to finalize a playing space.

That number will allow our university to handle the change.” A stadium on campus? It will allow us to have the administrative staff that we need in athletics - our sports information department will have to grow, our strength/conditioning staff, our academic administration, our athletic administration and student service will have to increase as well. “When you think of football-centric, that $6 million will allow us to make sure we have the needed number of faculty to offset the increase in student population. “Everything you need from personnel, equipment and partially facilities perspective,” Epting said. The “fully funded” number the university has set is $6 million, possibly up to $7 million. “We’re looking to have a good number that’s going to keep us in the top third so we’re going to start this from a position of strength meaning we have a strong budget.” “Many of our students that come here are strong academically as well, so we partner a lot of our athletic scholarships with our athletic scholarships.”
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“Some student-athletes can have as much as a full ride, others as little as a couple of thousand from athletics,” Epting said. Epting is hoping that the initial class will bring in over 100 athletes ideally around 120-125, which would put Anderson in the top third of the South Atlantic Conference in numbers. He will be vital in the continued development of the program which includes bringing in Anderson’s inaugural recruiting class. Epting is projecting early 2021 at the latest in regards to naming a head coach. To this point, the search hasn’t started, but will commence once the full funding is in place. “We have to make sure it’s a man who loves the Lord and understands the intricacies of starting a program but also building and sustaining it,” Epting said. Subscribe today to get unlimited access for just $3 for the first three months. Our sports reporters work hard to keep you up to date with sports news in the community, from high school sports, to Clemson University and everything in between. "We didn't choose to join the easiest conference, but we chose to start football in a conference that will make us be competitive and make us a strong competitor." "As far as I'm concerned, we couldn't have been in a better position than being in the South Atlantic to start a program," Whitaker said. They’ll be the 10th school in the conference with a football team. The Trojans football team will play in the Division II South Atlantic Conference, the conference in which their other sports teams currently play. “You have to make sure you have the correct housing opportunities, enough space in the dining commons, make sure our student affairs/development professionals can handle the number of students we’re bringing.” Adding any program affects the entire university,” Epting said.


Anderson.” It also said that Thomas Easthope, a former assistant vice president of student services, had been informed of three specific accusations of misconduct by Anderson.“It’s a holistic process. The report said that a former wrestling coach, Bill Johannesen, had been notified in writing by one of his athletes that “something is wrong with Dr. Nassar, the doctor who sexually assaulted female athletes at the university and members of the United States Gymnastics program, for which he also served as the team doctor. The report, compiled by the law firm Wilmer Hale, paints a picture of abuse similar to what occurred at Ohio State from the late 1970s to the late ’90s and at Michigan State, which made a $500 million settlement after revelations about Lawrence G. He was a doctor in the athletic department until 1999 and retired from the university in 2003. The report, which is based on interviews with hundreds of former athletes, along with current and former administrators and coaches, said cries for help from male athletes - who were subjected to unwarranted hernia or rectal exams and sometimes fondled to the point of ejaculation - were largely overlooked during most of the 37 years Anderson worked at Michigan. Anderson, from sexually assaulting “countless” students, including members of the wrestling and football teams, according to a report commissioned by the university that was released on Tuesday. For more than 20 years, the University of Michigan ignored warnings that might have stopped a longtime doctor in the athletic department, Robert E.
