kobe
Power Conference Enjoyer (Big 12)
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If you're from a school with a quality athletic department, you care. It doesn't look like Cincinnati cares very much based on their performance. That's a big concern.
The funny thing is that ESPN has gone out and created a faux Director's Cup called the Capital One Cup that picks and chooses some sports above the others in importance, and it separates Men's and Women's. All this is designed to do is make Conferences that only sponsor 19 sports (i.e. SEC, Big XII) feel artificially important in overall athletics. They can't keep up in the straight up comparison. They aren't involved in enough varsity sports to do so.
Cincinnati just reinstated full scholarship funding to all Olympic Sports this spring. I am hoping within 3-4 years the other sports will be successful to complement a good football/basketball program.
Oh and these "other" sports are important especially since there are talks that the ACC is interested in creating it's own network. A lot of the inventory will be made up women's sports, baseball, lacrosse, etc.