[BostonCard]

Notre Dame is reported to be making major cuts across most sports. This has seemed inevitable and I expect other schools to follow. The $21 million in payouts mostly has to come from somewhere and the vast majority of schools don’t have an athletic surplus.

https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/report...p_catchall

I still predict over time we will only have football, basketball maybe baseball and the legally required offsetting women’s sports. Probably add men’s hockey which drives revenue for the schools that care. Then for women  say volleyball, softball, lacrosse, basketball, soccer and 1-2 others.

MBB has WBB as an offset (each has 15 roster spots); baseball (34) has a partial offset in softball (25).  For better or worse, there is no offset for the 105 roster spots that football has.  That means that you have to assemble it from a number of women’s sports.  I think that’s why there has been such a push to include acrobatics & tumbling (55) as well stunt (65!), which very cheaply offsets the 105 football roster spots.  Not to denigrate the discipline, which actually has one of the highest injury rates of any sport, but this very much does look like a “solution” for the Title IX implications of the roster size for football rather than an attempt to nurture a women’s sport.

BC

[BostonCard]

Notre Dame is reported to be making major cuts across most sports. This has seemed inevitable and I expect other schools to follow. The $21 million in payouts mostly has to come from somewhere and the vast majority of schools don’t have an athletic surplus.

https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/report...p_catchall

I still predict over time we will only have football, basketball maybe baseball and the legally required offsetting women’s sports. Probably add men’s hockey which drives revenue for the schools that care. Then for women  say volleyball, softball, lacrosse, basketball, soccer and 1-2 others.

MBB has WBB as an offset (each has 15 roster spots); baseball (34) has a partial offset in softball (25).  For better or worse, there is no offset for the 105 roster spots that football has.  That means that you have to assemble it from a number of women’s sports.  I think that’s why there has been such a push to include acrobatics & tumbling (55) as well stunt (65!), which very cheaply offsets the 105 football roster spots.  Not to denigrate the discipline, which actually has one of the highest injury rates of any sport, but this very much does look like a “solution” for the Title IX implications of the roster size for football rather than an attempt to nurture a women’s sport.

BC