Marquette to remove track scholarships

Get rid of all athletic scholarships.

Are you kidding? They get more teams than some Power 5 cinferences.

If the tournament started this week they would have over half their teams in the tournament… currently 6 or 11… the conference makes well over 10 million per year just in tournament pay outs not to mention whatever media deals and whatever they have going on… also Marquette has a billion dollar endowment, not being able to fund a few scholarships is crazy.

Their odds of fielding a championship team didn't change much.

i am not convinced they had scholarships to begin with, based on their performances.

My son was offered 25% a few years ago.

This will become the standard amongst non power 5 schools. In all honestly, wouldn’t be surprised to see Track and Field become a club sport at the NCAA level in the near future

You do wonder if this is going to become more common in the non-Power 5 schools where you don't have revenue from football. In all honesty, why should a Big East school fund scholarships outside of the basketball's, soccer's, lacrosses's, and perhaps volleyball & softball? It's not like those schools are a factor in spring sports other than lacrosse & softball. Villanova was smart to keep football at the I-AA level where it makes the playoffs, but is more affordable to manage. UConn football is in the 'no man's land' of being independent. (Only 1 school can pull that off.) Fund raising efforts for scholarships are now being directed to arranging NIL deals for basketball recruiting.

Time to join the WIAC now.

What about cross country? The article doesn't mention cross scholarships. Will they fill a cross team and have a track team of mostly distance runners. Similar to and Bradley and Creighton?

No

The NCAA requires schools that give athletic scholarships to fund a certain percentage (I think it's 60%) of their max allowable scholarships (based on which sports they offer). If this wasn't a requirement, most schools wouldn't offer any scholarships outside of football and mens basketball.

Isn't that how pretty much all of Europe develops talent, at clubs separate from academia? All sports in college, including football and basketball, should be club teams without scholarships. Education should be the focus, not the sideshow to sports.

I hate when people say things should be different when we have the best system in the world.

Waiting for Russell Dinkins to go after Marquette.

I am wondering. I doubt it because he isn't going after hundreds of D3 schools.

I wasn't sure, I haven't seen a college game since my sons last played. I knew they trended hoops-heavy after the ACC raided them for football programs. Yeah, they set up to get NCAA tourney payouts plus their tv package would appeal to college basketball fanatics.

For Marquette, it's about priorities and ROI. Funnel the scholarship funds to sports where there's good potential to recruit conference champions and national champs qualifiers or keep supporting sports that don't move the needle? On that note, the cuts to tennis make less sense at a private, Jesuit school. It's also gotta be really hard to recruit runners to a campus in central urban Milwaukee. To a typical distance recruit the tradition, pricetag, and surroundings would be more appealing at one of the UW campuses throughout the state.

Basketball is already fully funded.

This...schools fund scholarships because they have to. I believe FBS programs are required to be at 80% and FCS/non football 60% of maximum.

It is based on all sports sponsored, but schools can't count men's and women's basketball (which must be funded 100% at DI) and football (FBS 100% mandate, but no FCS minimum requirements) in the proportion.

Some conferences require schools to fully fund sponsored sports (common in P5 and G5) but that's not NCAA driven.

The proportion is athletic department wide. As long as a DI school is Title IX compliant and funding enough other sports to hit that 60% they can forego scholarships in other sports.

For those worried this will be come commonplace...it won't unless rules change for DI membership. Most schools don't sponsor as many sports as Marquette. You usually can't meet requirements (especially at FBS level) without some funding in track.