Marquette to remove track scholarships

Really? Are you sure? I'm gonna need to see some proof of that.

For some reason I thought the had women's golf and sports like rowing.

Even still, I did the rough math and if they fully fund men's and women's lacrosse and soccer, and men's golf and women's volleyball they have enough to hit that 60% threshold and outweigh the 35 some odd scholarships offered by tennis and track.

It sucks, but FBS schools can't operate that way and a lot of mid majors (who are not fully funded in a lot of sports anyway) are unlikely.

They are going to be the bottom of the Big East (especially in heavily foreign tennis). They don't have the academic clout and need based aid of the Ivy League (scholarship exempted).

I don't think anyone cares enough to prove it to you because eveeryne else knows it. They are in the Big East.

To compete at DI, schools must fully fund basketball. Not optional. Outside of the major football powers, men's basketball is the only profitable sport in NCAA. Tournament revenue is significant. To earn that DI money though, the NCAA requires schools to fund it.

Hey yo playa, that was a sarcastic response to a throwaway sh*tpost.

They have recently won the watered down version of the Big East on both the Men's and Women's side

Wild that a school that was consistently in the hunt for a (watered down) Big East title until just 3 years ago has struggled to even break 100 points since then

I was raised somewhat equal in distance between Marquette and DePaul/Loyola - similar schools except Marquette is smaller and on net expensive. Marquette is not in a great neighborhood - and has an average academic reputation - not an easy place to recruit from in today's college economy. Their focus will always be on basketball, and historically they recruit from the Chicago area. I see this as a pure economic decision.

But not getting demolished by teams with scholarships.

They used to offer just about anyone 25% on the academic side. It was only the very wealthy dumb kids who paid in full in cash and funded all the scholarships for everyone else...

The process started over three years ago. Read the article. 25-26 is when every scholarship kid will be gone from all teams mentioned.

Even their BB team has gone downhill in the last 10 years.

who cares?

Its sports.

Go there for an education and get out in 4 years.

It happens in other parts of the world. Sport at university is a drain on finances and a waste of time.

My son also was offered 25% athletic and 50% academic. I think the net price was going to be about $12K per year. He got a full ride at Illinois instead.

Are you suggesting that the bottom 25% of D3 coaches should quit rather than lose to all of the better programs?

With an 86% acceptance rate, Marquette is most people's 3rd choice safety school, at best. UW-Milwaukee has a slightly higher acceptance rate, at 89%, but an abysmal graduation rate in comparison. As mu alum pointed out, it became a landing spot for wealthy kids who couldn't get into the Ivies, UCs, Northwestern, Michigan, Notre Dame, UW-Madison, or even Grinnell.

The average ACT at UW Milwaukee is 22. It is 27 at Marquette. Acceptance rates aren't much differnent because dumb kids apply to Milwaukee and not Marquette. Only 25% of UW Milwaukee students scored above 24 which means that nearly anone attending UW Milwaukke would have been admitted to Marquette.