Will Covid-19 result in MEGA budget cuts for NCAA T&F Programs?

How much will conferences with tv/network dollars be impacted? I have head track coach friends in the SEC & BIG 10 that have told me how nice it is to see their athletic departments receive millions annually from these sources. A quick tour of their athletic facilities leads me to believe budget cuts will exasperate very inequitable situations that already exist.

This is a welcome development. Colleges/universities need to extricate themselves from the sports-entertainment business (intramurals are fine). Let the no-revenue teams die, and hopefully football and men's basketball will crumble, too.

Yeah. Higher education is for learning. Not for sports.

trackislife12 wrote:

Will some teams lose funding for a year or two?

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No team will lose funding for a year or two. They will either go on, or they will be cut for good.

I think it may effect major conferences budgets, but as far as non major conferences I don’t think it will. For example, an SEC school may lose some budgets for their athletics. But I find it hard to believe that smaller tier conference schools make that much revenue from their athletic programs.

Would you say the same about high school sports?

5YearNcaa wrote:

I think it may effect major conferences budgets, but as far as non major conferences I don’t think it will. For example, an SEC school may lose some budgets for their athletics. But I find it hard to believe that smaller tier conference schools make that much revenue from their athletic programs.

But smaller schools rely heavily on enrollment and student fees to fund their athletic programs. It’s hard to imagine enrollment not being way down next year.

IAmAlwaysRight wrote:

Would you say the same about high school sports?

High schools don't need travel-sports teams. Stick to P.E. and intramurals, and let the travel-sports industry develop and grow outside of schools.

That would be a massive cultural change in America

Couldn't they make up for the lost Revenue from losing the NCAA Basketball Tournament and Potentially NCAA Football Seasons by simply cutting some of the stupid things like Diversity Counselors, Queer and Gender studies, I went to College in the 1980's and we did not have Diversity Counselors and everybody got along just fine, example when there were PPV fights, I invited friends to my apartment to watch, Black, White, Spanish, male, female etc and we ate Pizza and enjoyed the fights together, everybody got along fine, we did not need Diversity Counselors to get along.

Also they could Raise the prices to attend college, people who could not afford College, could work hard and get Scholarships, Or get a loan (Which some Politicians are talking about forgiving student loan debt) Most Students would be Happy to pay more if it meant saving the/A Sport Team/s.

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IAmAlwaysRight wrote:

That would be a massive cultural change in America

It's kind of happening with basketball. For a lot of players, AAU takes precedence over high school teams. It's moving in that direction with other sports, too. Which is good. Travel sports and schools need to get a divorce.

Not to give LaVar Ball too much credit, but his son LaMelo is going to be a top NBA draft pick after playing very little high school basketball.

You are conflating university budgets with athletic department budgets.

The perception is that college costs too much already and you are suggesting raising the price?

I am not sure "most students" would be happy to pay more to save a sport for a handful of students especially in the non-revenue sports that are pretty white (tennis, golf, swimming to name a few).

5YearNcaa wrote:

I think it may effect major conferences budgets, but as far as non major conferences I don’t think it will. For example, an SEC school may lose some budgets for their athletics. But I find it hard to believe that smaller tier conference schools make that much revenue from their athletic programs.

The issue there is that those smaller schools get a lot of money from the NCAA basketball tournament and that revenue was cut by more than half.

trackislife12 wrote:

As we all know, track programs are notoriously the low program on the totem pole. With this lost revenue from the NCAA, how much of a difference will we see with teams traveling and competing? Will some teams lose funding for a year or two?

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You aren't getting much of the discussion you asked for but my take is, yes, their will be budget cuts and a likely place will be the track programs.

I am all for football because they are the revenue generator for many schools but how easy would it be for the football team to cut scholarships down to 80 from 85 instead of cutting money out of a track (or other minor sports) budget... would a football team even miss those 5 extra athletic scholarships?

Of course, very few ADs will look at it that way.... super easy to tell the track coach cut 10 people from your squad. we need to tighten the belts here this year.

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Cuts all around. AD department, university administrators numbers and salaries, professor salaries, outreach programs, all sports men’s and women’s, reduce football full ride scholarships to partial or number down from 85 full.

If you went to college, it had to have been community college based on your writing acumen.

The problem with getting rid of high school sports is that not everyone can just afford sports outside of school. many aau and outside travel teams cost upwards of 3 thousand dollars a season to play.