Akron cutting some sports
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If we are not playing college football this fall we are probably not doing a lot of things this fall then. It is going to get ugly with way more than just college sports.
Having grown up in a suburb of Akron, with many people I know that get scholarships there, this sucks for them. Also Akron football is barely a moneymaker as is, they average one of the lowest attendance in the country and the big time athletic donors are few and far between. Academics wise, they get $10-15million a year on average.
They also stretched themselves out really thin on academics. They used to focus on hard sciences and engineering (like Iowa State) because of the tire companies in the area while Kent State, a university only 20-30min away, focused on liberal arts, teaching, medicine, and law (like Iowa).
In the last few decades, Akron has tried to expand into other areas to increase enrollment but they didn't do any of those things that great and while they saw an initial surge, it has fallen flat and now they're dropping enrollment like flies.
They also stretched themselves out really thin on academics. They used to focus on hard sciences and engineering (like Iowa State) because of the tire companies in the area while Kent State, a university only 20-30min away, focused on liberal arts, teaching, medicine, and law (like Iowa).
In the last few decades, Akron has tried to expand into other areas to increase enrollment but they didn't do any of those things that great and while they saw an initial surge, it has fallen flat and now they're dropping enrollment like flies.
I’m not sure why schools have so many sports anyway. Nobody shows up to half the sports teams offer so what exactly does the school benefit from having them.
Yeah, I mean the P5 trying to break away were the first ugly cracks. This non-sense and cancelling the basketball tourney is the earthquake. That revenue and the pay to get boot stomped in a football game or two each year are what kept them in the game.
You'd think UT would be fine, but those that had to value this type of thing in order to keep up won't be.
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Is some of it due to equal out the Title IX compliance aspect of number of scholarships available due to football having so many? Not sure?
CycloneErik
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I think the whole bubble will be bursting, but not on the way I always thought it would.
I agree but honestly I don't see any need for Golf Teams, Cross Country teams, that type of stuff. Nobody goes to watch it, it does nothing for the university other than add more athletes to the mix. You could eliminate both the men's and womens teams and be in compliance of Title IX
Men's sports are the ones that can be significantly cut, without cutting football first, but a lot of the men's programs have already been cut. This is going to be ugly, wrestling might be in real trouble.
