We all knew this was coming.
Well yeah. No money in DIII and most conferences cancelled already. DI is the cash cow, so they’ll keep putting it off as long as possible.
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Division III Presidents Council cancels fall championships
Moving sports to spring proved unworkable
August 5, 2020 1:58pmJeremy Villanueva
NCAA Division III championships in fall sports for 2020-21 are canceled. With the health and safety of the division’s student-athletes, coaches, athletics administrators and communities as its priority, the Division III Presidents Council made the decision Wednesday to cancel the championships due to the COVID-19 pandemic and related administrative and financial challenges.
The Board of Governors directed each division to make a decision on its fall sport championships. It also agreed to require all members institutions to apply the resocialization principles to fall sports and set a 50% sponsorship threshold for a fall sport championship to be conducted.
“Looking at the health and safety challenges we face this fall during this unprecedented time, we had to make this tough decision to cancel championships for fall sports this academic year in the best interest of our student-athlete and member institutions,” said Tori Murden McClure, chair of the Presidents Council and president at Spalding. “Our Championships Committee reviewed the financial and logistical ramifications if Division III fall sports championships were conducted in the spring and found it was logistically untenable and financially prohibitive. Our Management Council reached the same conclusion. Moving forward, we will try to maximize the championships experience for our winter and spring sport student-athletes, who unfortunately were short-changed last academic year.”
but it's okay to go MacDonalds
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Time for collegiate subsidized athletics to go bye bye. Make university about university, allow elite athletes and developmentals to work with their own coaches and clubs. Deflate the bubble! Better for the universities, better for students, better for athletes.
LRCisTerrible wrote:
Time for collegiate subsidized athletics to go bye bye. Make university about university, allow elite athletes and developmentals to work with their own coaches and clubs. Deflate the bubble! Better for the universities, better for students, better for athletes.
Wrong. College is about a lot more than taking some classes and learning some stuff. Sport is an integral part of the university experience for many students. The lessons they learn playing sport help them in class and later down the road in their careers.
Then adopt a D III model. Sport is there if the student wants it but, we are no longer requiring taxpayers and other students to subsidize it. Big time football and basketball? Let the NFL and NBA start minor leagues or pay to support their future talent pools.
LRCisTerrible wrote:
Time for collegiate subsidized athletics to go bye bye. Make university about university, allow elite athletes and developmentals to work with their own coaches and clubs. Deflate the bubble! Better for the universities, better for students, better for athletes.
+1
Kvothe wrote:
Wrong. College is about a lot more than taking some classes and learning some stuff. Sport is an integral part of the university experience for many students. The lessons they learn playing sport help them in class and later down the road in their careers.
A tiny fraction of students actually participates in NCAA sports. Let them play club sports.
OOF
LRCisTerrible wrote:
Time for collegiate subsidized athletics to go bye bye. Make university about university, allow elite athletes and developmentals to work with their own coaches and clubs. Deflate the bubble! Better for the universities, better for students, better for athletes.
You think that's going to hurt athletes? D1 universities make millions of dollars off the almost free labor of their basketball and football players. You think tuition and fees covers the cost of running the big sports schools? Sure, make universities about education like the rest of the world, but be careful what you wish for.
LRCisTerrible wrote:
Time for collegiate subsidized athletics to go bye bye. Make university about university, allow elite athletes and developmentals to work with their own coaches and clubs. Deflate the bubble! Better for the universities, better for students, better for athletes.
D3 is more or less club level. There are no scholarships, you moran.
Portland Hobby Jogger wrote:
Then adopt a D III model. Sport is there if the student wants it but, we are no longer requiring taxpayers and other students to subsidize it. Big time football and basketball? Let the NFL and NBA start minor leagues or pay to support their future talent pools.
Taxpayers do not subsidize college sports. Athletic departments fund pretty much all they do with revenue from ticket sales, media contracts, conference revenue sharing, post season play, donations, etc. The only situation where a state's taxpayers are subsidizing an athlete's scholarship is when the athlete is attending a state school in his or her home state in which case taxpayers are paying about half the tuition. But that's the case for any in state student, not just scholarship athletes.
Hate to see it.. how long till D1 announces?
Would it make any sense for D1 to NOT cancel?
Yes. About $100M for the big name schools.
LRCisTerrible wrote:
Time for collegiate subsidized athletics to go bye bye. Make university about university, allow elite athletes and developmentals to work with their own coaches and clubs. Deflate the bubble! Better for the universities, better for students, better for athletes.
Says the guy who was too slow to make the team.
Should be full go obviously. Can hang out at Walmart and other places all day but can’t compete in a sport with healthy youth with zero chance of any harm. Do you understand the idiocy here??? Nov 3 can’t come soon enough to end this farce!
LRCisTerrible wrote:
Time for collegiate subsidized athletics to go bye bye. Make university about university, allow elite athletes and developmentals to work with their own coaches and clubs. Deflate the bubble! Better for the universities, better for students, better for athletes.
Yes! This is why there’s big developmental league in basketball now