Sportsbooks betting has not seen Hofstra on the board at sportsbooks very often in college football and they won’t be on the board in the future as Hofstra University has dropped football as a sport.
Hofstra has had a football team for the past 69 years but that will no longer be the case. Sportsbooks betting indicated that Hofstra would not be fielding a football team in the future due to rising costs and lack of interest. The board of trustees at Hofstra voted unanimously to drop the football program. Sportsbooks betting shows that there have been five Hofstra players taken in the NFL draft since 1991 including New Orleans Saints wide receiver Marques Colston.
Hofstra is in the NCAA’s Football Championship Subdivision which is still really known by many people as Division I-AA. Sportsbooks indicate that Hofstra is not the only school in the Colonial Athletic Association to drop football as Northeastern also is dropping football. “The cost of the football program, now and in the future, far exceeds the return possible,” Hofstra president Stuart Rabinowitz said, “Given that, along with the low level of interest, financial support and attendance among our students, our alumni and the community, the choice was painful, but clear.”
There are currently four Hofstra players in the NFL. The previously mentioned Colston, Stephen Bowen of the Dallas Cowboys, Kyle Arrington of the New England Patriots and Willie Colon of the Pittsburgh Steelers. “I am both saddened and shocked to hear the news that the Hofstra University football program has ceased,” Colston said. “I owe a tremendous amount of gratitude to the university, my coaches and my former teammates and I am sure that they share in my disappointment.”
Sportsbooks betting stats show that Hofstra had only an average of 500 students attending the games this season at a stadium that seats 13,000. The average attendance for Hofstra home games with students and non-students was 4,260 as sportsbooks stats had it. Sportsbooks betting shows that Hofstra has 84 football players who can keep their scholarships if they remain at the school or they can transfer. “It’s devastating,” redshirt junior linebacker Rashad Swanson said, “Football is pretty much our lives here. There’s some guys who are thinking about staying. But me, personally, I’m thinking about leaving. I can’t be here if I can’t play football.” Hofstra was 5-6 this sportsbooks betting season. They were third in the CAA North with a 3-5 conference record as sportsbooks stats show. The last sportsbooks betting home game for Hofstra was a 52-38 home win over Massachusetts in late November.