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Strange move given how good Oregon is likely to be over the next few years. I had never heard of GCU, but it is apparently a "for-profit Christian research university," which would seem to contain multiple contradictions within a single sentence. In any case, hopefully they have a good basketball team, and the very best to Powell.

Grand Canyon is actually a very interesting case, they are the only for-profit institution in Division I and have generated some controversy as a result; the Pac-12 (apparently driven by Arizona State) submitted a request that the NCAA review whether for-profit universities should be permitted to compete in Division I.

Grand Canyon clearly has ambitious athletic plans and the resources to be competitive. The men's coach is former Suns icon Dan Majerle, and that program went 22-9 (11-3 in the WAC) after moving up to Division I only three years ago, so I can see this being a good opportunity for Nicole Powell to make her name as the head coach of an up and coming program on the women's side.
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Wait a minute... You're telling me that Stanford isn't for-profit?  ??? Then why exactly did they want to gouge me for an additional $1000 to sit in the same football seat I've been sitting in for decades...?  >:(  Seems to me that would have been a tidy little profit if I hadn't decided to move to the sunny side...  ;D

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[quote author=2006alum link=topic=16754.msg191405#msg191405 date=1491722214]
Strange move given how good Oregon is likely to be over the next few years. I had never heard of GCU, but it is apparently a "for-profit Christian research university," which would seem to contain multiple contradictions within a single sentence. In any case, hopefully they have a good basketball team, and the very best to Powell.

Grand Canyon is actually a very interesting case, they are the only for-profit institution in Division I and have generated some controversy as a result; the Pac-12 (apparently driven by Arizona State) submitted a request that the NCAA review whether for-profit universities should be permitted to compete in Division I.

Grand Canyon clearly has ambitious athletic plans and the resources to be competitive. The men's coach is former Suns icon Dan Majerle, and that program went 22-9 (11-3 in the WAC) after moving up to Division I only three years ago, so I can see this being a good opportunity for Nicole Powell to make her name as the head coach of an up and coming program on the women's side.
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Wait a minute... You're telling me that Stanford isn't for-profit?  ??? Then why exactly did they want to gouge me for an additional $1000 to sit in the same football seat I've been sitting in for decades...?  >:(  Seems to me that would have been a tidy little profit if I hadn't decided to move to the sunny side...  ;D