Fun fact, after harvesting the sod from the growing plot north of town for Jack Trice and the practice facility, they replanted and are going to be replacing the artificial turf at the soccer/track facility this spring/ summer
Men’s soccer
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will someone explain like i am 5
how is it we cant have these sports but a school like iowa can
what am i missing or where am i missing?
iowa men have 6 sports and iowa state men have 6 sports. we have cross country while they have baseball.
iowa women have 13 sports and iowa state women have 10 sports.
why couldnt we just add another/more women sports to add an additional mens sport?
how is it we cant have these sports but a school like iowa can
what am i missing or where am i missing?
iowa men have 6 sports and iowa state men have 6 sports. we have cross country while they have baseball.
iowa women have 13 sports and iowa state women have 10 sports.
why couldnt we just add another/more women sports to add an additional mens sport?
Probably not a priority to add more non revenue sports. We could probably do it . However, back in the day every school was adding sports to keep up with everyone else. Now schools are trying to downsize so they don’t have to spend money on sports that don’t bring much back to the school
I'm no expert myself, but until we improve with NIL this appears to be a moot issue. In the meantime, maybe club soccer could create a niche following.
I'll explain this one because that's probably the easiest to explain without having to do extensive research on how many athletes they have on each sports.
No. 1 priority will be the budget. When you add a sport, you'll have to take into account the overheads: salaries, travel, recruiting and other overheads, not just scholarships. Let's take an Iowa Women's rowing team: there are 72 athletes in the roster. In-state tuition is $9,942 and out-of-state is $31,905. 42 of them are Iowans and the rest are not. So that translates into $417,564 (in state0 and $957,150 for out of staters that they have to "spend" - so $1.37 million for scholarship.
There are 4 coaches - the head coach I think makes $70k. Asst coach 45k - so let's say it's $160k for the coaching staff per year. That's already over $1.5 million.
Add travel, equipment etc.
You can see how adding a sport can be expensive. Even if you add something that doesn't require as many (eg water polo, Stanford have ~20 athletes on their roster - if you apply that to EIU, probably still 300k for scholarship.
And these sports don't generate revenue.
Next you have questions
1. How many new women's scholarship are required so we are compliant with Title IX?
2. How much more this will cost the university?
3. How much will the new Men's sport cost?
4.Whether the new men sports will generate revenue
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