Disagree, almost most mid major baseball coaches are in favor. You have to factor in the reduced roster size, from 40 to 34, as well as the fact that you don't have to offer scholarships to everyone. Most mid majors can easily afford to 15-20 baseball scholarships.
Good thing I said most. The sun belts, CUSA, WCC of the world will be fine
In that case they should no longer be called "walk ons" but "chauffeured ons".
UConn has a pretty good equestrian history.
Is it a varsity sport or a club team?
Does the Horse need a partial scholarship or are they considered walk ons?
Just going to feed the portal
Not sure if there is a great ROI on starting your kids in equestrian with the chance for a future college scholarship.
And, perhaps, shortsighted.
Maybe. They've clearly decided that a larger percentage of the pie, even if they shrink the college sports pie, is in their interests. I don't know that I intuitively agree with that, but I will assume that conclusion has been reached after tons of market studies. Doesn't mean the decision will ultimately be right, but I do think that's where the smart money is.
Just not sure how much impact it has in the age of the portal for basketball. A lot of the guys that in the past may have developed on the deep bench of a big program are now going to smaller programs for the first year or two. Even teams with huge NIL, it seems like a better investment to pick guys off the portal once they’ve developed than to hope they pan put way at the end of your bench, while paying them.
It would be smart to have studied it. I'm not certain that that has happened.
It'll have minimal impact on UConn. The teams it would theoretically hurt are the teams who wanted to go over the scholarship limit by offering walk-ons NIL packages to make up for the scholarship money. That's no longer an option