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If colleges cut sports programs, could new models emerge? |
2020-04-20 |
How about " - Studies" programs that have to be required courses to get non-snowflakes to take and support? Diversity whores? Liberal Arts that lead to no career path but barista? The coronavirus pandemic has triggered fears of an economic meltdown on campuses around the country. The cancellation of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament cost schools $375 million and more losses are expected, especially if football season is disrupted in the fall. In tough times, athletic administrators often drop sports programs to save money. In the past few weeks, Old Dominion said it will drop wrestling and Cincinnati will no longer have men’s soccer. Warnings of tough times ahead have come from all over college athletics, even some of the wealthiest Power Five schools. "To say it’s not going to have any economic impact -- that, I would say, would be grossly naïve," said Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione, who oversees a program that had $148 million in operating revenue in 2017-18 and boasts of 20 straight years of balanced budgets. "We’re just hoping to minimize it," he said. |
Posted by:Besoeker |
#18 could new models emerge? No the VS angels are shut down. |
Posted by: Skidmark 2020-04-20 20:15 |
#17 A university can use Eminent domain? Does a governor want those votes and that sweet alumni donation? Some years back, University of Kansas approached then Governor Sebelius requestion some $10million for 'bathroom renovations' some 8 bathrooms. Next year, the football stadium had new lights. KU football makes its attendance by how many of the visiting team's fans show up. |
Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-04-20 13:34 |
#16 It;s a little, a lot, more nuanced than the sports programs being vampires. Originally the Athletic Departments were told that they had to be self funded. Then the television money started pouring in and the major college administrators developed a massive desire to share the wealthâ„¢. Much of the Amateur facilities, such as free volleyball, tennis and other facilities for the normal everyday students is paid for largely from this revenue stream. Is it corrupt? Are these *cough* student athletes *cough* largely mercenaries and not students? Yet it is what it is --- some good and some bad. |
Posted by: magpie 2020-04-20 12:31 |
#15 Grom makes a hand washing hand gesture. |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-04-20 11:38 |
#14 State university. Whatever the f it was, trust me, they did it. |
Posted by: Clem 2020-04-20 11:34 |
#13 A university can use Eminent domain? |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-04-20 11:32 |
#12 It's disgusting. My old university used eminent domain to scarf up property (and a family friend's business) to build a sport complex years ago. It is now pretty much a white elephant. Pathetic. Even more pathetic is when they would send their alumni requests for money. I was so angry I called them and told them to take me off of their mailing list forever. |
Posted by: Clem 2020-04-20 11:27 |
#11 #2 What Lex said. There's a lot of money in big time university sport's programs. |
Posted by: JohnQC 2020-04-20 11:01 |
#10 Probably been looking for a reason for a while; them's dollars for pensions. |
Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-04-20 10:39 |
#9 Every campus has one... Turning a Tennis Stadium Into a Hospital, and Thinking About What Sports Can Do Now |
Posted by: Skidmark 2020-04-20 09:46 |
#8 Not to mention inflated tuitions thanks to guaranteed student loans. |
Posted by: Clem 2020-04-20 07:42 |
#7 End the taxpayer's subsidy and all sorts of beneficial things will occur. |
Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2020-04-20 07:23 |
#6 Strange, very strange. It took a deadly pandemic to expose a deadly pandemic. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2020-04-20 07:09 |
#5 And if you end mandatory indoctrination classes for departments that would draw near zero elective attendance, you probably could save even more money (especially from law suits from academic culturally prosecuted student victims of those you credentialed and then employed cause they can't get jobs on that paper anyway). |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-04-20 07:07 |
#4 "My job is to ensure parking for the faculty, sex for the students, and football for the alumni" - Clark Kerr, then-president of UC-Berkeley |
Posted by: Lex 2020-04-20 06:57 |
#3 Yes, Geology 101 (Rocks for Jocks) is here to stay. |
Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-04-20 06:53 |
#2 Football is a profit center for the best teams and will remain at UA, tOSU, ND etc |
Posted by: Lex 2020-04-20 06:48 |
#1 New models? No, it is doubtful that will occur. The raison d'être of 'higher education' shifted many years ago. Along with the shift came the dumbing-down of standards. Causation needs no explanation here. A few exceptions do still exist. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2020-04-20 06:44 |