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Dartmouth dropping five sports - fullmetal - 07-10-2020
Dartmouth is dropping M/W swimming/diving, M/W golf, and men's lightweight rowing.
https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/29435435/dartmouth-cuts-swimming-diving-golf-men-lightweight-rowing
RE: Dartmouth dropping five sports - newguy - 07-11-2020
i wonder if they were waiting for someone else to cut programs first.
RE: Dartmouth dropping five sports - Farm93 - 07-12-2020
(07-11-2020, 12:10 AM)newguy Wrote: i wonder if they were waiting for someone else to cut programs first.Doubt it. Probably related to required meetings and approvals.
Once a school has decided to move forward they will move through a process of informing coaches and the issuing a release. There would just be too big a negative for that information to be known by many, then leaked to media types, before official word was delivered to coaches and student-athletes.
COVID19 related expenses for academics and athletics, shaky enrollment (for non-elite schools), and a stretch of years that might be awful for donations will have many schools cutting a lot of sports.
Survival was not Dartmouth's concern, but there will be a lot of schools in the USA that will not make it to 2025. The only timing that may be an issue for a school on the edge is to announce the academic and athletic cuts after the students have started the fall term to maximize tuition related revenue.
RE: Dartmouth dropping five sports - fullmetal - 07-12-2020
The process of informing coaches and issuing a release is usually done in 1-2 hrs. Both Dartmouth and Stanford gave no warning to the programs they cut (which is the most effective way to do this, I guess).
Notably, Dartmouth's lightweight men's rowing team was not given the option to form a club sport team because apparently Dartmouth wouldn't be able to provide proper safety oversight or some such reason. The rest of the lightweight club rowing scene in America is looking on in extreme skepticism. But some of the lightweight crew will try to row heavy as well (as that team has not been cut).