their budget for football was 2.8 million and they have a 2-10 record? What a complete joke...how about they get rid of the football team
Women's indoor and outdoor track & field will remain too.
I remember when we went through this in the 80s...we lost men's xc but some how track survived. they didn't do us the dignity of announcing it this early. they waited until finals week in the spring.
track is dead.
Go to college for your education, not for sport. If you love the sport, form a club.
It will be more enjoyable, and achieve basically the same thing (minus the scholarships - which in track are pretty non-existent)
When I was in college on a full ride at d1, the rugby team had much more fun than we did, and they also had great grades.
Somewhere Bill Cosby is crying.( he ran the 400 there !)
Big time college football programs have ruined NCAA sports for all those schools not in their league financially.
bobsaggit wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMwFgX62npA
video of the axe dropping. athletes in tears.
obvious one wrote:
Big time college football programs have ruined NCAA sports for all those schools not in their league financially.
Not Really True wrote:
obvious one wrote:
Big time college football programs have ruined NCAA sports for all those schools not in their league financially.
Aren't most "Big Time" football programs self funded by gate, merchandise, ad and TV revenue?
How can you cut rowing programs at a Philadelphia school? Wow.
Baseball and Softball at a D1 School? Sad.
owlordie wrote:
http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/colleges/temple/20131207_Temple_to_drop_7_sports__including_baseball__rowing.html
men's and women's cross country will remain .
these sports represented almost a third of Temple's 24 athletic teams, yet accounted for less than 10% of Temple's 44 million dollar athletic budget.
A division 1 school, in the big east no less, will have only five men's sports teams? insane.
A10 fan wrote:
Somewhere Bill Cosby is crying.( he ran the 400 there !)
It's only a matter of time before most D1 schools sponsor only football and basketball (which are their main sources of revenue) and enough women's sports to balance out the scholarships for Title IX. The only way there will be more is if there are NCAA or conference minimums to maintain their affiliations. D1 athletics are a business and they are going to keep narrowing their investments to the sports that generate revenue. What has happened at Temple (and other schools) is going to become a more and more frequent occurrence.
No reason to bring racist crap into the issue.
This is a financial problem that has been going on for decades as colleges have chased the chimera of network dollars for football even now as with Temple as the money pot is melting down as cable is abandoned and the media dollars are set to dry up. The southern universities in the SEC long since abandoned most of their sports except football and basketball, but a few others hold on like cross country -- and mainly women's cross country -- is kept alive and the coach is givening his or her marching orders to bring in 40 or 50 female runners or joggers to put on the roster so Title IX mandates can be satisfied for the bloated football teams. And of course, even at Temple with today's announcement, a dig is thrown at the need to keep the women's representation equal. Temple did have far more sports than many Eastern colleges in its situation, but the school's need to worship at the altar of football really doomed them here, because they just have no chance there. Sad.
Us college coaches need to step up our game and start bringing something tangible to the table or this trend will continually worsen. If you have used the excuse of "let our results do the talking" then you have no clue how the world works. Lets wake up and do something to make this sport a crowd pleaser/money maker.
temple grad wrote:
get rid of 7 sports so we can give 85 stupid black kids hundreds of thousands of dollars to play bad football... what a joke
Lambs to slaughter. This is what happens when an conference footprint becomes a financial sinkhole.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/e/ef/20130702013606!American_Athletic_Conference_Member_Locations.png
Travis Mahoney was a very good steeplechaser and miler for Temple.
