Rough Day for College Athletics

Track and cross-country as D1 sports for men are over. within 2 years all the majors will be nothing but football, men's and women's basketball and enough women's sports to Title IX comply with football numbers

The avalanche is only beginning. We haven't seen anything yet.

Yeah it’s over. History repeats itself

Guess the whiney college athletes can stop whining about not being paid now. Now they get no money and no training or publicity.

Call me Lamb chop wrote:

Track and cross-country as D1 sports for men are over. within 2 years all the majors will be nothing but football, men's and women's basketball and enough women's sports to Title IX comply with football numbers

Remember that the NCAA mandates that their schools sponsor a minimum number of sports so to have nothing but football, basketball, and women's sports would require a rules change. A change like that, which eliminates all non revenue men's sports would be a PR nightmare for an organization which claims to exist to develop students mentally AND physically (see their advertisements on broadcasts.) It would also stand a good chance of costing them their tax exempt status because it would be obvious that they sponsor sports to make money and not to develop students mentally and physically. Sports will get cut but some will survive and athletics will be among them in some places.

But if there's no football revenue this year the guy who said the avalanche has only begun is probably correct especially at Power Five schools that fund athletic departments with football and basketball revenue.

A rough day for college athletics, but a great day for colleges.

Schools need to get out of the business of sports and refocus on their core mission.

I'm loving it. Dismantle it all.

The university bubble is going to deflate and I cannot say it won't be a positive thing for all of us, although it will bring pain and adjustment. Universities scaling back will hopefully yield a new system in which kids can go to college for a reasonable amount of money and without endless bloat and inflation.

D!ickHeadStoleMyHandle! wrote:

The university bubble is going to deflate and I cannot say it won't be a positive thing for all of us, although it will bring pain and adjustment. Universities scaling back will hopefully yield a new system in which kids can go to college for a reasonable amount of money and without endless bloat and inflation.

Hear! Hear! And I'll add a Huzzah!

It may be better. It would be nice to go back to the days of less frills and the Hollywood atmosphere. Seems lack there has been certain element of perversion over the last decade or two. Certainly has strayed from being center to the educational process. But that could largely be said about collegiate institutions generally. Club med for spoiled kids comes at a cost. Not only for students, parents, but for society.

Defund NCAA football.

...or at least reduce the scholarship numbers. D1 has 85 full rides and a roster limit of 105. Only 11 can play at one time.

A lot of schools will be going to the minimum number. Some small schools really on roster spots for admissions so sports like xc and track won't totally go away, however it may get very competitive to walk on a team for a while. XC runners may have to be just about all state to walk on a rinky dink d3 team.

Good riddance. No more college sports including track and cross country. If you’re fast enough, go pro. If not, then join the crowd and stop kidding yourselves.

former D1 failure wrote:

Good riddance. No more college sports including track and cross country. If you’re fast enough, go pro. If not, then join the crowd and stop kidding yourselves.

Says the angry person who failed in life

former D1 failure wrote:

Good riddance. No more college sports including track and cross country. If you’re fast enough, go pro. If not, then join the crowd and stop kidding yourselves.

I had a friend whose doctoral dissertation looked at factors that contributed to student retention at universities. He found that students who made connections to some aspect of university life outside of classes was the biggest factor in whether they remained at school or left. Essentially that implies that a student's chances of graduating are enhanced by aspects of college life aside from classes.

Didn't finish. For me that was cross country. It gave me a group of friends almost immediately that I would not have made otherwise. I had no ideas about being a pro runner and I suspect very, very, few college runners do.

Basketball, & football coaches should take big pay cuts in order to save the other sports

david45 wrote:

former D1 failure wrote:

Good riddance. No more college sports including track and cross country. If you’re fast enough, go pro. If not, then join the crowd and stop kidding yourselves.

Says the angry person who failed in life

...Says the pathetic loser who is constantly looking for pity in a running forum.

Just Dope It wrote:

Basketball, & football coaches should take big pay cuts in order to save the other sports

why?

Mr. Doubtfire wrote:

A rough day for college athletics, but a great day for colleges.

Schools need to get out of the business of sports and refocus on their core mission.

I'm loving it. Dismantle it all.

I don't love it and to say you do is twisted and borderline psychotic.

However, I do agree athletic departments at colleges have become way to big and should be de-emphasized. College sports have gone way too far from the origional purpose and have become business ventures exploiting free labor under the lie of a free education. Focus on education and make sports competitive intramural and clubs. Focus on healthy and fitness and making it a lifelong pursuit. Not a win at all cost with 8 figure salaried coaches.