Yup, there are several low profile sports that can be cut before you get to football, all of those sports can be brought back if our situation changes, but once football is gone it is likely gone forever.
Well that has to make many on this board happy.
I'm no fan of cutting sports, but some upper income alumni, friends, fans and even parents of golf, M&W tennis, M&W cross country, M&W track&field, M&W swimming/diving, and other zero-revenue teams might not rule out $tepping up to the plate $ooner versus whining along down the road ...
I agree. But I honestly just don’t know the answer. But I assume it works that way.
I'm partial to cutting men's tennis, golf, and swimming/diving. Would put us at NCAA minimum of 7. All remaining men's sports outside track/XC (essentially one sport, only need one set of coaches, but counts as 2 to NCAA) provide exposure, potentially revenue to the University. Most track meets are local and we have a pretty solid program already. Can send a few individuals to nationals or further meets without having to send the whole team. If cutting these men's sports allows you to cut the filler women's sports like rowing or whatever you deem next on the chopping block you cut them as well. We should not be above NCAA minimum for men's sports at least until we're in a P5
Yeah. I'd take a look at something like T&F. Their losses are pretty significant.
Unfortunately, I agree and due to the numbers games, its going to be a men's sport or two. I do wonder if the school may slow down the facilities upgrade (thinking baseball) until this issue is solved. Even if the private money is there, the optics would be bad. It also means that the dream of a men's lax program is dead for the foreseeable future unless a donor comes out of the woods and writes a big check.
I'd imagine the soccer stadium gets upgraded but the baseball and softball fields get put on hold. Not enough donors for either program while the soccer team had that big donation.
For better or worse, Title XI will ensure that the softball stadium does get an upgrade. Soccer is used by both men's and women's teams (women's lax, too?) and with the donation noted, should be safe.
Not according to Benedict (and the construction/infrastructure work for the new fields has actually already begun). I can’t speak towards softball - but baseball has the donors/supporters to get it done financially.
Do they add up the donations or just show names?
If the minor sports have so many "funders" how are they losing 23 million a year? How does the best Women's basketball team in the country with just 13 scholarships lose 3 million? On a per scholarship basis they lose much more than football which seems impossible.
Not sure why this was surprises anybody. Our revenue generating squads play all big games thirty minutes from campus ...when the teams are down, it’s no surprise there’s a lack of organic interest, which only accelerates and illuminates the problem.
great point Mets Fan!
The problem is that it wasn't just the Catholic schools who took the BE name. The conference name plays no impact on UConn. It was the fact that Syracuse, Pitt, Louisville, Rutgers and previously BC, Miami, and VTech all left. Had the first four (Cuse, Pitt, LVille, RU) stayed, this situation would have been different.
