The Most Unfortunate Revival in College Football

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When students at UC Santa Barbara revived the school’s football in 1983 as a club team, all they wanted to do was play football. And they got to do just that after years of not having a team. The issue for the Gauchos is that in a few seasons, they went from being too good to not nearly big enough to survive.
The 1991 season would be their last. Nearly 20 years after pulling the plug on their first football stint, the reboot would suffer the same result.
Dusting off football at Santa Barbara was done so with good intentions and student support but would ultimately lead to the most unfortunate Revival in College Football. The team was undone by something, not of its own doing.
In 1971, after an ill-fated stint in the University Division of College Football, the highest rank there was, UC Santa Barbara axed its football team. Performances on the field had declined, with the jump in competition leading to some pretty embarrassing blowouts. Spending money on this was not seen as a priority for the university.
A club team was formed in 1983. In 1986, UC Santa Barbara became a full-fledged DIII playing school, although most of those club players were kicked to the curb.
By 1987, UCSB finished with an 8-2 record and was one of the best DIII college football teams in the country. Two of those wins came against Division II programs in the form of Sonoma State and St. Mary’s. Despite clearly being good enough to make the 16-team DII playoff field, they found themselves left out.
Things would get odd from here. This is the unfortunate revival of UC Santa Barbara football.
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@TerrenceBranley 19 дней назад

I played on the last 1991 Gaucho football team. A lot of what is said in the video is correct, however a few big points that were inaccurate - Title IX is what impacted ALL the college football programs at all levels (D1-D3), not just UCSB and many California universities killed off their football programs including many D1 (CSUF, CSULB, Univ of Pacific). Football is an expensive sport - lot of coaches, players, equipment, insurance, etc. It was the easiest sport to cut costs and then use those funds for multiple women's sports. Also, the vote to keep Gaucho football at UCSB would have passed, if graduate students were excluded. The undergrad students overwhelmingly supported the vote (around 65-70% voted YES) but the grad students were included and they could have cared less and tipped the scales that lost the initiative from passing.

@jackdunagan331 14 дней назад

Exactly!...I'm looking at the '91 team photo on the wall now. I'm #32 sitting in front of you.

@TerrenceBranley 14 дней назад

@@jackdunagan331 I would love to see that! Are you in the Gaucho football FB group?

@sbprinc 19 дней назад

I played and coached UCSB Football during 1987-1991. I bleed Gaucho Blue And Gold. This program was killed by allowing graduate students to vote on the initiative. Please do another segment discussing some behind the scenes topics not raised in this wonderful program. Thanks for bringing the light and insight to an incredible piece of football history. Dirty Wade Wallace #10

@danielott1235 15 дней назад

Like Wade. I played for UCSB (in 1986). Bleeding Gaucho Blue and Golf is a thing! Such pride and passion for what we did back then! Gauchos4Life!!

@JohnZoni 27 дней назад

That 1991 NCAA ruling also had a big impact on college football in the New York City area as well. D-1 hoop schools like St. John's and Iona were playing D-3 football before that ruling and they both folded their football programs before the '90s were over.

@lobotomyscam1051 25 дней назад

Iona was D1 for hoops? Well, spank my arse and call me Nancy Kerrigan.

@joelsimeone5112 27 дней назад

You could build a ridiculously good FCS/D2 conference out of all the programs that no longer exist in California. UCSB, Cal State Northridge, Cal State Fullerton, Chico State, Sonoma State, Azusa Pacific, Humboldt State, St. Mary's, Cal State East Bay, Cal Poly Pomona...

@anthonybanchero3072 25 дней назад

University of San Francisco too?

@JROB447 27 дней назад

So weird that schools like Long Beach state, CSU Fullerton had football teams go defunct around this time

@devobronc 26 дней назад

It was the beginning of Wokeism.at Universities

@TerrenceBranley 19 дней назад

As a result of Title IX, which lead to the demise of MANY football programs across all Divisions.

@nickadubato5403 23 дня назад

Great video as always. Would love to see a video about Fordham Football. One of America's oldest and most storied teams, which was shut down by the university only to later be (successfully) restarted by students.

@trevinschaerr3732 27 дней назад

1:49 That is THE most California thing I’ve ever heard. Wow.

@JROB447 27 дней назад

UC San Diego is not the same as the university of San Diego. U of SD have the football team that Josh Johnson played on.

@thetouchback 27 дней назад

This is my bad. I constantly get the Tritons and Toreros mixed up.

@BroadwayJoe99 27 дней назад

The California university system is wildly confusing as a whole.

@theraplawyer 27 дней назад

It takes some credibility from the video when University of San Diego is confused repeatedly with UC San Diego. UCSD is much bigger than USD. UCSD does not play football. Otherwise the video is interesting. Please note, UC Santa Barbara would not play the University of Redlands which many seem to call the university of California Redlands. It is real unfortunate so many schools have dropped their teams. The list is endless especially when the SCIAC schools play football with much smaller student bodies.

@sasquatchhunter86 25 дней назад

UCSD = University of California, San Diego USD = University of San Diego, private Catholic

@lobotomyscam1051 25 дней назад

@@sasquatchhunter86 U$D is very fitting for a Catholic scam org.

@greg_fair 27 дней назад

Unfortunate but the current FCS Division Pioneer Conference would likely have been a good fit

@unnes 16 дней назад

You have some of the most fascinating content on RU-vid. Stuff like this is so cool and I'm not gonna find it anywhere else in easily digestible video form.

@Drew_Dittman 27 дней назад

The Touchback Excellent content once again. Sonoma State video, Chico State video pretty please lol. Maybe just one on the whole forgotten NCAC… Being a 2004 Bay Area High School football graduate and football player, always pained me playing D-II at Sonoma State or Chico State was not even an option. I remember when St. Mary’s had a program and offered scholarships in 2000 and next year dropped the program. Northern California football is always ever been complicated, difficult, especially outside of Cal & Stanford. (Yes San Jose State is included in that statement. USF way back too. SFSU coaching gold mine too). It’s just…football in Northern California and the Bay Area reality, unfortunately.)

@thetouchback 27 дней назад

I have an entire video on the decline of California college football in the works covering all those schools you mentioned and more.

@tomknauss570 27 дней назад

Can’t wait

@theraplawyer 25 дней назад

@@thetouchback I look forward to it. It is a shame that college football has declined in California. It is a wonder the SCIAC schools have football and CCAA died. Oxy and Whittier sadly dropped football due to incompetence by the leadership at the schools. Given the amounts their students have to pay it is no wonder Whitteir had a leadership change. Oxy needs one too. I know SF State should have a team. Who cannot recruit at SF State? It has a wonderful campus and student body. Like I said, there needs to be leadership changes. Also, leadership at colleges is too top heavy.

@TerrenceBranley 19 дней назад

@@thetouchback Looking forward to it.

17 дней назад

One little error, UC San Diego only had a team for 1 year it was 1968 and went 0-7. The team you reference and show a picture of is USD or University of San Diego a private Catholic school that still has a football team.

@tomknauss570 27 дней назад

As a life long resident of the Goleta valley and alumni, thanks for the breakdown and wonderful breakdown of the timeline of events, when I tell people of the origins of “Hader” stadium and football in my youth I’m often met with doubtful smirks. Fabulous presentation and research ! Thanks.

@josephdhippolito5456 27 дней назад

You should do a story on Cal State Fullerton‘s football team. In 1983, they won what was then called the Pacific Coast Athletic Association’s championship. For years, the team had to play home games at various venues. They even played home games at a Jerry rigged facility on campus that players and coaches themselves built! Finally, there was enough funding to build a new athletic complex, which included a football stadium, along with a hotel that would help pay for the complex.the stadium opened in 1992. Fullerton played one season at its new stadium, then dropped football because it couldn’t afford the program.

@lobotomyscam1051 25 дней назад

"Jerry" rigged?! I'm 1/69 German and highly offended. I'm calling Rev. Al Sharpton and his daughter to sic you.

@Lawomenshoops 4 дня назад

UC San Diego had only one season of football, in 1968. In the 90’s UCSD was still D3. They finally moved to D1 in 2020! They are now a full D1 school!

@TunerisFire 27 дней назад

Great video. Thanks

@ImNotDeanMartin 26 дней назад

All we have here is Santa Barbara City College football. Closest D-1 program is Cal Poly SLO and for the NFL, the Cowboys host their training camp in Oxnard. Central California college and pro football is…yeah it sucks.

@robbie5138 22 дня назад

Yeah it sucks but what's your distance that you are talking like Slo and SB county only. Ventura has some football and so does Hancock and some other small colleges. But yeah the sports scene for football is very small which is why not many Football players move on from the Central Coast.

@torunit4620 10 дней назад

@@robbie5138 Yeah if you really really need to see a football game or join a team you have several JC programs to choose from. The kids get 2 years. CPSLO is the only 4 year program nearby. Except he missed Cal Lutheran in the SCIAC. Interestingly I've directed TV coverage of all of them, including UCSB decades ago.

@APG23994 27 дней назад

UCSD didn’t have D1 sports back then and they didn’t have football.

@royaloakstudios6022 24 дня назад

You can blame the students. They wouldn’t pay 9 per quarter for 4 but rather 9 for 3. 27 extra dollars per student is nothing crazy. Also UCSB’s largest rival is Cal Poly and every year they have to compete in soccer instead. Today they would be able to play in the Big Sky and could easily bring it back.

@chrisrainwater473 27 дней назад

You’re confusing UCSD with the University of San Diego. They are two different institutions. The University of San Diego (with the football program) is a small, private Catholic school while UCSD is a large state school with no official football team.

@paulbaker6729 26 дней назад

University of Dayton was smart to drop from Division I to III in the late 70’s, and was a national contender for about 15 years. The Dayton rule was real, but Dayton was grandfathered in for another decade or so. Games were fun, and we had a few I-AA opponents in those years. I would like to see a football division with limited substitutions, so players play both offense and defense.

@zackcamp1912 27 дней назад

The play 8:13 was NUTS btw

@Lawomenshoops 4 дня назад

Schools could be D1 in name only for football! They instead just dropped football! Patriot League is D1, but they are non-scholarship!

@Kingsized_Kevin 27 дней назад

Title IX.. So empowering

@tomknauss570 27 дней назад

Amazingly, UCSB, girls basketball, volleyball, waterpolo, field hockey, and soccer all immediately flourished in the early 90’s

@valeriemendoza2023 21 день назад

UCSD and USD are not the same school.

@TrggrWarning 25 дней назад

Thought they were banana slugs

@thetouchback 24 дня назад

That is UC Santa Cruz.

@cuberis4447 20 дней назад

John 3:16

@ThatAtheistLiberal 27 дней назад

who are these gauchos, amigo?

@tomknauss570 27 дней назад

The Groucho’s were the charismatic, highly skilled, Spanish cowboys of the early 1800’s .the name was a fitting reflection of the Hispanic heritage of early Santa Barbara and the original Santa Barbara college. Fittingly an assortment of regional team names still proliferate, “Chargers” “conquistadors” “Dons”,”Royals”, “Aztecs”, “Lancers”, “Vacaros”, all early California warriors on horseback. Over the last 5 years the UCSB student bodies continually petition to change the name, out of political correctness. (Thankfully unsuccessfully to the raccoons)

@curmudgeon513 23 дня назад

Steely Dan made an album entitled Gaucho which included the song "Gaucho". The best part was being a UCSB senior in 1980 when the album came out.The arcane lyrics of Steely Dan's many songs (including "Who is the Gaucho, amigo") is part of the fun! Ole