- Feb 22, 2012
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I love the tone of the conversation here. Coming from personal experience and also an overall industry standpoint view, I feel if the year over year changes wouldn’t occur in terms of D1/D2, we could form some type of normalcy and gain legitimacy and more understanding.
I have watched as gyms chose to franchise to keep their gyms afloat (names normally bring or retain athletes) and were still able to be small gym and now D2. Then, rules change and you can no longer be D2. Gym fights the good fight...and now it’s not worth it for the franchise to be a franchise because they can not competitively hold their own in D1. Gym chooses to not franchise the following year and then here comes another potential change to reverse it with self-declaration.
The back and forth just stirs the pot.
As a Director in a program with D2 numbers, we choose to compete D1. It’s a business decision. We lie in between two major Worlds contending programs.
Do I feel franchises should be D1? No, I actually believe all franchises should be required to be D2. Main location = D1 and all franchise subsidiaries = D2. But my train of thought stems from divisions in collegiate sports.
I do feel that we bring this on ourselves. I don’t know the solution, as it seems that change is inevitable, but more frequent than needed to have stability.
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I have watched as gyms chose to franchise to keep their gyms afloat (names normally bring or retain athletes) and were still able to be small gym and now D2. Then, rules change and you can no longer be D2. Gym fights the good fight...and now it’s not worth it for the franchise to be a franchise because they can not competitively hold their own in D1. Gym chooses to not franchise the following year and then here comes another potential change to reverse it with self-declaration.
The back and forth just stirs the pot.
As a Director in a program with D2 numbers, we choose to compete D1. It’s a business decision. We lie in between two major Worlds contending programs.
Do I feel franchises should be D1? No, I actually believe all franchises should be required to be D2. Main location = D1 and all franchise subsidiaries = D2. But my train of thought stems from divisions in collegiate sports.
I do feel that we bring this on ourselves. I don’t know the solution, as it seems that change is inevitable, but more frequent than needed to have stability.
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