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Holy Shi*!!!
As reported by The Press Democrat sports reporter Gus Morris
Sonoma State dropping all sports!
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Holy Shi*!!!
As reported by The Press Democrat sports reporter Gus Morris
Doesn't surprise me. Regular students go thousands of dollars in debt . Athletes just don't respect them and always have a hand out. If you are not a big time football factory, then you can't support these sports.
In the San Jose Mercury News today. said they aren't the only Division II school this is happening to. When will ithit Division i schools?
So D1 programs have to convince everyone they're broke so they can get alumni donations and student fees. Which means the accounting always shows huge deficits. (One trick: Charging athletics full market value for scholarships. So even though the marginal cost to the university of adding one student to the 10,000 already there is pretty much zero, in the books it's the full $50,000 (or whatever).)
But if D1 programs were overall money-losers -- the free marketing from sports teams is worth millions, really -- then why are schools always moving up into D1? School presidents can do math, and if D1 sports really cost schools tens of millions each year, then they wouldn't be lining up to join.
But it is a brave new world right now, and we could see massive changes soon. If a 48-team superleague emerges, we could certainly see a lot of schools not in that league just punting and dropping to D3, or dropping out altogether.
But if D1 programs were overall money-losers -- the free marketing from sports teams is worth millions, really -- then why are schools always moving up into D1? School presidents can do math, and if D1 sports really cost schools tens of millions each year, then they wouldn't be lining up to join.
But it is a brave new world right now, and we could see massive changes soon. If a 48-team superleague emerges, we could certainly see a lot of schools not in that league just punting and dropping to D3, or dropping out altogether.
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