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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 5351951, member: 44"] The advent of de facto free agency in the revenue sports (football and basketball) and the impact of "separate but equal" Title IX requirements puts tremendous pressure on non-revenue men sports. Because Connecticut has a very good prior history in soccer, and a brand spanking new stadium on campus, that will be the last place to have cuts. But pretty much every other men's non-revenue sport is likely to be relegated to club status or just eliminated. That would have already happened to golf, but for private money coming into support it. As predictably is the case when organizations seek to correct a perceived injustice by real allocating resources, they look only at the perceived problem they're trying to correct and not the downstream foreseeable consequences of the correction. Thus, in this case, where there is a "defined pie", namely, schools, athletic department budget, they neglect to consider, or blithely ignore, the fact that all allocating more resources to one area means that other areas have to be reduced or eliminated. We can expect continued cuts on the men's side of college athletics. Also, matching the scholarships necessary for college football will eventually cause smaller schools to eliminate it and likely eliminate the offset women's programs eventually. [/QUOTE]