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From the above discussion... a suggestion:
Dmoore5556 ( talk) 05:27, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
Cbl62 good insight, thanks. The 1962 Byers quote is still problematic, as a) the Miami News column in question is the only known instance where a writer attributed such a statement to Byers, and b) 140 is an overly high number of programs to consider "major", as other sources (such as the published schedules, example) put the number in the 120s. I would like to see some corroborating source(s), lest this simply be a case of one columnist's notes being off. I will dig some more, as time permits. Dmoore5556 ( talk) 14:43, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
If anyone wants other info from this record book, let me know.
Considering the clear contrast between the 1962 record book and 1963 record book... that looks to be the transition point from no organizational split, to having University and College divisions. Having different record keeping for teams deemed major-college and small-college dates to earlier (apparently, the 1930s) but does not reflect an organizational split. Dmoore5556 ( talk) 23:08, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
I should also add... we are left with an inconsistency for 1962, where the Record Book doesn't show University/College but there's a statement ( here) about University/College by Walter Byers. There was certainly a time gap between the issuing of the Record Book (it doesn't say what month it was published, but it's certainly no later than September 1962, and likely a few months earlier) and Byers' statement, which was published on December 12, 1962. It would seem either the NCAA decided late in the 1962 pre-season to implement University/College (that is, it happened after the Record Book was finalized) or perhaps Byers was looking ahead to the 1963 season (he was speaking about a "comprehensive survey" that had not yet happened). I'd be curious as to if anything the 1963 Record Book makes mention of University/College existing during the prior (1962) season, or just in the 1963 schedules. Dmoore5556 ( talk) 23:27, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
For completeness, there is a source cited in
1956 NCAA University Division football season which states:
Before we list those players, we must first note how the NCAA divisions used to be organized. Prior to 1956, there were no Divisions in college football. Between 1956 and 1972, schools were categorized in either the “University Division” or the “College Division”. In 1973, the University Division became Division I while the College Division becamse Divisions II and III. There was another split in 1978, with Division I breaking up into Division I and Division I-AA. In 2006, we saw the new classification of the FBS and FCS arise. That is our current structure.
The source is this page on the heisman.com site, published in July 2016 and authored by one Chris Hudson. I view the "Between 1956 and 1972" statement as a well-intended attempt to clarify history, but it ultimately lacks sourcing and does not hold up to scrutiny. His statement would be accurate in a basketball context, but not in a football context, even though it "sounds good".
I believe we are at a point where the unified content found at 1955 college football season should be extended through at least 1961 college football season, and the first season to have separate University Division and College Division articles should be either 1962 or 1963. Comments?
Note that NAIA season articles begin with 1956 NAIA football season, so whether that content should be included in the above, or left to stand on their own, also merits some consideration. I have not looked into NAIA football history, so I don't know to what degree the unsourced statement "The 1956 NAIA football season was the first season of college football sponsored by the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics." is factually accurate.
Lastly, we should also consider whether to make changes directly ( WP:BOLD), or via WP:MERGE, or ?
Thank you to all who have participated in this (now quite lengthy) discussion. Dmoore5556 ( talk) 20:58, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
I came across a slew of conference standings templates for
Upper Midwest Athletic Conference (and began a TfD for a majority of them
here for anyone interested in participating). However, I noticed that for the
2002 and
2003 templates, they are included in both
2002 NCAA Division III football season and
2002 NAIA football season, and both
2003 NCAA Division III football season and
2003 NAIA football season. I don't think programs can be part of the NCAA and NAIA in the same season, so could anyone help out and figure out which league these conferences belong to?
Eagles
24/7
(C)
19:02, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
I just went through and reconciled the CFB HOF inductee lists with Category:College Football Hall of Fame inductees, and came up with 129 names that need to be added to the category. I don't have time to work on them now, but I figured if someone is looking for a project I can provide the list. LMK. Jb45424 ( talk) 00:56, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
The Cleveland Plain Dealer is now available digitally on Newspapers.com. Woohoo! Cbl62 ( talk) 16:27, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
In recent weeks, Cbl62, Thetreesarespeakingtome, and I have done a bunch work to expand our coverage of junior college football, e.g. 1941 Los Angeles City Cubs football team, 1967 junior college football season, and 2023 junior college football season. An issue that needs some discussion and resolution is the naming scheme for a few junior college athletics programs. I'll kick things off with a couple examples.
Thoughts on these two to start? Cbl62 may have more examples worthy of discussion. Jweiss11 ( talk) 17:00, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
Category:1941 junior college football season has been nominated for merging. Please the discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 May 23#Category:1941 junior college football season. Jweiss11 ( talk) 14:25, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
Moving this here.
Was there a discussion on what to do for the COVID-19 season in terms of coaching record tables? There about a million and a half different ways it has been expressed and I am unsure as to which should be done. I feel as though there are multiple feasible ways but I am unsure of a consensus which will tie into another point.
Option A, just stating no team
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COVID-19 like what was done with World War II teams that did not play
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This goes along with the next point on if a season was played, should there be a note in the record table explaining that the games were played in the spring or just leave it without.
Third point, should 2020 be grayed out on the coaches navboxes like I did for:
{{ Albany State Golden Rams football coach navbox}} {{ Adams State Grizzlies football coach navbox}}
If we do that, that would also go in hand with what was done for World War II, but again, just a few questions for you/seeing if there was a consensus already. Thanks! Thetreesarespeakingtome ( talk) 00:25, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
Thetreesarespeakingtome ( talk) 02:31, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
@ Thetreesarespeakingtome: Instead of linking to COVID-19, which is the article about the virus, linking to COVID-19 pandemic or COVID-19 pandemic in the United States or Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports seems more appropriate. Or maybe there should be a new article for Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports in the United States? Jweiss11 ( talk) 01:38, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
There is a proposal at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject National Football League#Proposal: Remove (some) conference awards from infoboxes that editors may be interested in.- UCO2009bluejay ( talk) 14:00, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
Template:Southeastern Conference starting quarterbacks navbox, what are the thoughts about this?- UCO2009bluejay ( talk) 03:01, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject National Football League#J. J. McCarthy’s lead (again). Cbl62 ( talk) 21:09, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
An A&E biography on Admiral William Halsey Jr. is on and it mentioned how he "played football on one of the worst team's in [Naval A]cademy history." All editorialism aside, I checked his page and it didn't have the Navy Midshipmen category and the WP:CFB tag on the talk page despite having information about his playing days in prose. It makes me wonder how many pages might also have these oversights?- UCO2009bluejay ( talk) 01:12, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
I have noticed that some editors have started to move certain pages to their new conference affiliation ex, UCLA Bruins football, DeShaun Foster. When should these pages actually be updated? If it is in-fact on July 1, when should it be 12:00 am EDT, 6/30 11 CDT, 6/30 9 PDT, or 12 EDT, 12 CDT etc? (Eastern-time or institution time specific)- UCO2009bluejay ( talk) 16:03, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
Regarding the above series of articles, I've started adding a section for annual statistical leaders. E.g., 1950 leaders, 1951 leaders, 1952 leaders, 1953 leaders, 1954 leaders, 1955 leaders, 1956 leaders.
Any suggestions on formatting? Is the top 10 a reasonable cutoff? Should we include other categories such as punting? Team passing offense? Team passing defense? Team rushing offense? Team rushing defense? I also welcome help building this out for other seasons (the data can be found in both annual NCAA guides and in post-season newspaper reports). Cbl62 ( talk) 21:46, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
Cbl62, I see you moved 1956 NCAA University Division football season to 1956 college football season per the above discussion. I have no object with eliminating College and University Divisions for this season, but 1956 NCAA College Division football season need to be merged in there. And what do we do with 1956 NAIA football season? Also, Template:NCAA football season navbox need to be updated accordingly. 02:44, 7 June 2024 (UTC) Jweiss11 ( talk) 02:44, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
I am closing Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 May 13#Category:Pocatello Army Air Base Bombardiers football seasons with consensus to merge a single-season category.
Looking around the hierarchy, I see that e.g. Category:Air Transport Command Rockets football holds only one article 1945 Air Transport Command Rockets football team via a "seasons" sub-cat. The team category is also parented by Category:United States Army Air Forces sports teams, Category:College football teams in Tennessee and Category:Defunct American football teams in Tennessee.
There are similar category pairs within Category:Defunct college football teams each holding a single season article. Do these really have navigational value?
Note that each article will always remain within the college football category hierarchy via the season e.g. Category:1945 college football season. – Fayenatic London 08:44, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
FYI at https://bowlseason.com/sports/bowl/schedule/
Of note:
Feels WP:TOOSOON to create the season's bowl games article; passing along for reference. Dmoore5556 ( talk) 01:24, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
There's a deletion discussion on the Fairmont State Fighting Falcons (an NCAA Division II program) that may be of interest. BeanieFan11 ( talk) 19:36, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
I noticed @ KingSkyLord today made a number of edits adding/removing navboxes from the departing Pac-12 members' sports articles.
Templates such as Template:Pac-12_Conference_football_rivalry_navbox have also been edited to remove the departing members.
First, I think these changes are premature. The Huskies, at least, don't join the Big Ten until August 2nd.
Second, I would perhaps like to see some kind of "Historic" information about the Pac-12 preserved in these articles and navboxes. Does this kind of information exist for any of the other disbanded conferences? What should be kept as-is for the Pac-12 and archived or marked as "historic"? What should be updated, in the short term, to only include WSU and OSU?
Some reference points:
Seeking opinions on what should be done for the article on the historic Pac-12 Conference, the upcoming " Pac-2 Conference", their nav boxes, the team pages, etc.
PK-WIKI ( talk) 16:51, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
I have nominated Category:Northwest Community College Conference football standings templates for renaming. Please see the discussion here. Thanks, Jweiss11 ( talk) 05:52, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
I have nominated Category:Kenyon Lords and Ladies and its subcats for renaming. Please see the discussion here. Thanks, Jweiss11 ( talk) 17:17, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
Template:Southeastern Conference starting quarterbacks navbox has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. UCO2009bluejay ( talk) 23:06, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
There is a discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2024 June 26#Template:CBB yearly record subhead editors may be interested in participating in. It has the same functions of Template:CFB Yearly Record Subhead. - UCO2009bluejay ( talk) 18:57, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
We have three AfDs open for late 1800s team season articles:
Jweiss11 ( talk) 16:56, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
I created this draft some time ago but couldn't find the needed SIGCOV to move it to main space. Surprising for a team with a perfect season. It is now set to be deleted. If anyone wants to adopt and work on the article, feel free to do so. Cbl62 ( talk) 17:10, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
Boston College–Syracuse football rivalry has been nominated for deletion. Please see the discussion here. Thanks, Jweiss11 ( talk) 21:02, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
I read a couple of articles that said that Bud Wilkinson was a golf coach and the hockey coach at Syracuse? I couldn't find anything that had any statistics or years. If anybody has access to any resources, can they see if he was a head coach of either of these teams? Shouldn't this information be in the infobox as well?- UCO2009bluejay ( talk) 04:29, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
List of NCAA Division III independents football records has been nominated for deletion. Please see the discussion here. Jweiss11 ( talk) 17:04, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
Template:1966 Central Conference football standings and two similar junior college standings templates have been nominated for deletion. Please see the discussion here. Thanks, Jweiss11 ( talk) 18:57, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
I am looking at a few 2024 articles, and see a ton of information in the preason regarding watch lists and preseason polls. Do we really need the entire SEC preseason poll in a team article wouldn't it be better as prose?- UCO2009bluejay ( talk) 19:43, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
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From the above discussion... a suggestion:
Dmoore5556 ( talk) 05:27, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
Cbl62 good insight, thanks. The 1962 Byers quote is still problematic, as a) the Miami News column in question is the only known instance where a writer attributed such a statement to Byers, and b) 140 is an overly high number of programs to consider "major", as other sources (such as the published schedules, example) put the number in the 120s. I would like to see some corroborating source(s), lest this simply be a case of one columnist's notes being off. I will dig some more, as time permits. Dmoore5556 ( talk) 14:43, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
If anyone wants other info from this record book, let me know.
Considering the clear contrast between the 1962 record book and 1963 record book... that looks to be the transition point from no organizational split, to having University and College divisions. Having different record keeping for teams deemed major-college and small-college dates to earlier (apparently, the 1930s) but does not reflect an organizational split. Dmoore5556 ( talk) 23:08, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
I should also add... we are left with an inconsistency for 1962, where the Record Book doesn't show University/College but there's a statement ( here) about University/College by Walter Byers. There was certainly a time gap between the issuing of the Record Book (it doesn't say what month it was published, but it's certainly no later than September 1962, and likely a few months earlier) and Byers' statement, which was published on December 12, 1962. It would seem either the NCAA decided late in the 1962 pre-season to implement University/College (that is, it happened after the Record Book was finalized) or perhaps Byers was looking ahead to the 1963 season (he was speaking about a "comprehensive survey" that had not yet happened). I'd be curious as to if anything the 1963 Record Book makes mention of University/College existing during the prior (1962) season, or just in the 1963 schedules. Dmoore5556 ( talk) 23:27, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
For completeness, there is a source cited in
1956 NCAA University Division football season which states:
Before we list those players, we must first note how the NCAA divisions used to be organized. Prior to 1956, there were no Divisions in college football. Between 1956 and 1972, schools were categorized in either the “University Division” or the “College Division”. In 1973, the University Division became Division I while the College Division becamse Divisions II and III. There was another split in 1978, with Division I breaking up into Division I and Division I-AA. In 2006, we saw the new classification of the FBS and FCS arise. That is our current structure.
The source is this page on the heisman.com site, published in July 2016 and authored by one Chris Hudson. I view the "Between 1956 and 1972" statement as a well-intended attempt to clarify history, but it ultimately lacks sourcing and does not hold up to scrutiny. His statement would be accurate in a basketball context, but not in a football context, even though it "sounds good".
I believe we are at a point where the unified content found at 1955 college football season should be extended through at least 1961 college football season, and the first season to have separate University Division and College Division articles should be either 1962 or 1963. Comments?
Note that NAIA season articles begin with 1956 NAIA football season, so whether that content should be included in the above, or left to stand on their own, also merits some consideration. I have not looked into NAIA football history, so I don't know to what degree the unsourced statement "The 1956 NAIA football season was the first season of college football sponsored by the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics." is factually accurate.
Lastly, we should also consider whether to make changes directly ( WP:BOLD), or via WP:MERGE, or ?
Thank you to all who have participated in this (now quite lengthy) discussion. Dmoore5556 ( talk) 20:58, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
I came across a slew of conference standings templates for
Upper Midwest Athletic Conference (and began a TfD for a majority of them
here for anyone interested in participating). However, I noticed that for the
2002 and
2003 templates, they are included in both
2002 NCAA Division III football season and
2002 NAIA football season, and both
2003 NCAA Division III football season and
2003 NAIA football season. I don't think programs can be part of the NCAA and NAIA in the same season, so could anyone help out and figure out which league these conferences belong to?
Eagles
24/7
(C)
19:02, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
I just went through and reconciled the CFB HOF inductee lists with Category:College Football Hall of Fame inductees, and came up with 129 names that need to be added to the category. I don't have time to work on them now, but I figured if someone is looking for a project I can provide the list. LMK. Jb45424 ( talk) 00:56, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
The Cleveland Plain Dealer is now available digitally on Newspapers.com. Woohoo! Cbl62 ( talk) 16:27, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
In recent weeks, Cbl62, Thetreesarespeakingtome, and I have done a bunch work to expand our coverage of junior college football, e.g. 1941 Los Angeles City Cubs football team, 1967 junior college football season, and 2023 junior college football season. An issue that needs some discussion and resolution is the naming scheme for a few junior college athletics programs. I'll kick things off with a couple examples.
Thoughts on these two to start? Cbl62 may have more examples worthy of discussion. Jweiss11 ( talk) 17:00, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
Category:1941 junior college football season has been nominated for merging. Please the discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 May 23#Category:1941 junior college football season. Jweiss11 ( talk) 14:25, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
Moving this here.
Was there a discussion on what to do for the COVID-19 season in terms of coaching record tables? There about a million and a half different ways it has been expressed and I am unsure as to which should be done. I feel as though there are multiple feasible ways but I am unsure of a consensus which will tie into another point.
Option A, just stating no team
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Option B, no team + —
COVID-19 like what was done with World War II teams that did not play
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Option C, no team + note
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This goes along with the next point on if a season was played, should there be a note in the record table explaining that the games were played in the spring or just leave it without.
Third point, should 2020 be grayed out on the coaches navboxes like I did for:
{{ Albany State Golden Rams football coach navbox}} {{ Adams State Grizzlies football coach navbox}}
If we do that, that would also go in hand with what was done for World War II, but again, just a few questions for you/seeing if there was a consensus already. Thanks! Thetreesarespeakingtome ( talk) 00:25, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
Thetreesarespeakingtome ( talk) 02:31, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
@ Thetreesarespeakingtome: Instead of linking to COVID-19, which is the article about the virus, linking to COVID-19 pandemic or COVID-19 pandemic in the United States or Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports seems more appropriate. Or maybe there should be a new article for Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports in the United States? Jweiss11 ( talk) 01:38, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
There is a proposal at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject National Football League#Proposal: Remove (some) conference awards from infoboxes that editors may be interested in.- UCO2009bluejay ( talk) 14:00, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
Template:Southeastern Conference starting quarterbacks navbox, what are the thoughts about this?- UCO2009bluejay ( talk) 03:01, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject National Football League#J. J. McCarthy’s lead (again). Cbl62 ( talk) 21:09, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
An A&E biography on Admiral William Halsey Jr. is on and it mentioned how he "played football on one of the worst team's in [Naval A]cademy history." All editorialism aside, I checked his page and it didn't have the Navy Midshipmen category and the WP:CFB tag on the talk page despite having information about his playing days in prose. It makes me wonder how many pages might also have these oversights?- UCO2009bluejay ( talk) 01:12, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
I have noticed that some editors have started to move certain pages to their new conference affiliation ex, UCLA Bruins football, DeShaun Foster. When should these pages actually be updated? If it is in-fact on July 1, when should it be 12:00 am EDT, 6/30 11 CDT, 6/30 9 PDT, or 12 EDT, 12 CDT etc? (Eastern-time or institution time specific)- UCO2009bluejay ( talk) 16:03, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
Regarding the above series of articles, I've started adding a section for annual statistical leaders. E.g., 1950 leaders, 1951 leaders, 1952 leaders, 1953 leaders, 1954 leaders, 1955 leaders, 1956 leaders.
Any suggestions on formatting? Is the top 10 a reasonable cutoff? Should we include other categories such as punting? Team passing offense? Team passing defense? Team rushing offense? Team rushing defense? I also welcome help building this out for other seasons (the data can be found in both annual NCAA guides and in post-season newspaper reports). Cbl62 ( talk) 21:46, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
Cbl62, I see you moved 1956 NCAA University Division football season to 1956 college football season per the above discussion. I have no object with eliminating College and University Divisions for this season, but 1956 NCAA College Division football season need to be merged in there. And what do we do with 1956 NAIA football season? Also, Template:NCAA football season navbox need to be updated accordingly. 02:44, 7 June 2024 (UTC) Jweiss11 ( talk) 02:44, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
I am closing Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 May 13#Category:Pocatello Army Air Base Bombardiers football seasons with consensus to merge a single-season category.
Looking around the hierarchy, I see that e.g. Category:Air Transport Command Rockets football holds only one article 1945 Air Transport Command Rockets football team via a "seasons" sub-cat. The team category is also parented by Category:United States Army Air Forces sports teams, Category:College football teams in Tennessee and Category:Defunct American football teams in Tennessee.
There are similar category pairs within Category:Defunct college football teams each holding a single season article. Do these really have navigational value?
Note that each article will always remain within the college football category hierarchy via the season e.g. Category:1945 college football season. – Fayenatic London 08:44, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
FYI at https://bowlseason.com/sports/bowl/schedule/
Of note:
Feels WP:TOOSOON to create the season's bowl games article; passing along for reference. Dmoore5556 ( talk) 01:24, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
There's a deletion discussion on the Fairmont State Fighting Falcons (an NCAA Division II program) that may be of interest. BeanieFan11 ( talk) 19:36, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
I noticed @ KingSkyLord today made a number of edits adding/removing navboxes from the departing Pac-12 members' sports articles.
Templates such as Template:Pac-12_Conference_football_rivalry_navbox have also been edited to remove the departing members.
First, I think these changes are premature. The Huskies, at least, don't join the Big Ten until August 2nd.
Second, I would perhaps like to see some kind of "Historic" information about the Pac-12 preserved in these articles and navboxes. Does this kind of information exist for any of the other disbanded conferences? What should be kept as-is for the Pac-12 and archived or marked as "historic"? What should be updated, in the short term, to only include WSU and OSU?
Some reference points:
Seeking opinions on what should be done for the article on the historic Pac-12 Conference, the upcoming " Pac-2 Conference", their nav boxes, the team pages, etc.
PK-WIKI ( talk) 16:51, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
I have nominated Category:Northwest Community College Conference football standings templates for renaming. Please see the discussion here. Thanks, Jweiss11 ( talk) 05:52, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
I have nominated Category:Kenyon Lords and Ladies and its subcats for renaming. Please see the discussion here. Thanks, Jweiss11 ( talk) 17:17, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
Template:Southeastern Conference starting quarterbacks navbox has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. UCO2009bluejay ( talk) 23:06, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
There is a discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2024 June 26#Template:CBB yearly record subhead editors may be interested in participating in. It has the same functions of Template:CFB Yearly Record Subhead. - UCO2009bluejay ( talk) 18:57, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
We have three AfDs open for late 1800s team season articles:
Jweiss11 ( talk) 16:56, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
I created this draft some time ago but couldn't find the needed SIGCOV to move it to main space. Surprising for a team with a perfect season. It is now set to be deleted. If anyone wants to adopt and work on the article, feel free to do so. Cbl62 ( talk) 17:10, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
Boston College–Syracuse football rivalry has been nominated for deletion. Please see the discussion here. Thanks, Jweiss11 ( talk) 21:02, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
I read a couple of articles that said that Bud Wilkinson was a golf coach and the hockey coach at Syracuse? I couldn't find anything that had any statistics or years. If anybody has access to any resources, can they see if he was a head coach of either of these teams? Shouldn't this information be in the infobox as well?- UCO2009bluejay ( talk) 04:29, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
List of NCAA Division III independents football records has been nominated for deletion. Please see the discussion here. Jweiss11 ( talk) 17:04, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
Template:1966 Central Conference football standings and two similar junior college standings templates have been nominated for deletion. Please see the discussion here. Thanks, Jweiss11 ( talk) 18:57, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
I am looking at a few 2024 articles, and see a ton of information in the preason regarding watch lists and preseason polls. Do we really need the entire SEC preseason poll in a team article wouldn't it be better as prose?- UCO2009bluejay ( talk) 19:43, 3 July 2024 (UTC)