meganeck wrote:Tere North wrote:Can't really believe cutting the men's program helps the bottom line much. Given they are keeping the women's tennis program, this really feels more like an effort to more closer to gender equity. Look at most schools, those that offer football offer more sports for women than men because of the huge numbers and $ put toward football. You could see the same time of things for some other sports options.
Tere, you are probably right about the gender equity thing, but obviously money will be saved also. I thought why not drop women's tennis also, but that is probably right about gender equity. Also they mentioned about having to go to Galesburg to play indoors, so that is another expense they would have.
I suspect that as contracts run out, you might see and end to Swimming & Diving, Cross Country, and/or Track & Field. Both Swimming & Diving and Track & Field have large teams to pay for travel, but with few actual scholarships, plus neither has top notch facilities.
I see Baseball staying because of the Boyer Stadium, and for gender equity, Softball and McKee Stadium as well. I also see golf staying with the Gleacher back 9 expansion. No way do I see us turning our noses up to that kind of donor funding.
To remain D1, we have to have 14 sports (7M & 7W or 6M & 8W). At the D2 or D3 level the minimum is 5 & 5.