Yeah, ok … so your football program is struggling to put kids in uniform, and you just had to cancel the women’s basketball season for lack of student-athletes.

But hey, you have a brand-new mascot, Macalester. Congrats to the 38 football players and five women’s basketball players on the show of institutional support. I’m sure it’s comforting.

The football program bailed out of the MIAC after the 2001 season and there’s no return in sight. The women’s basketball program played just six games this past season — well, five and a half really. They won’t play in the MIAC this season either. Because it took so long to hire last year’s women’s basketball coach, she had no chance to recruit and was doomed to failure. And if the football coach can only get in 15 freshmen, like last year, what are the chances that program will get off the ground?

Great scot, Macalester — there’s a lot more that needs to be done before worrying about a new mascot.

It’s Father’s Day, also a day on which sports sections around the country tend to run heartwarming stories about fathers and their children relating to sports.

Ursinus’ Josh Hannum and his father are the subject of one such story in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer — it doesn’t break a lot of new ground on Hannum’s story and it glosses over his 2004 season, but it’s a good read for those who aren’t already familiar with how and why Hannum got to Ursinus.

Should mention that the Inquirer, like all Knight-Ridder papers, requires free registration.

Hey, St. Vincent fans, first of all, welcome to Division III. Secondly, glad you’re bringing back football.

Sorry you have to wait so long to get in, though — there’s a long line of schools waiting to get into Division III and the NCAA is trying to keep things manageable.