Yes sports were getting cut before NIL and I am just speculating they will cause more to be and could be wrong.
Football and basketball not being profitable are the reason Olympic sports are/were cut. Before all the money came in to football and basketball there wasn’t issues with non revenue sports. Total athletic budgets were small and all programs were fine.
I am guessing Title IX was a reason too.
I thought it was the other way around.
Football and basketball are the only profitable sports?
For the most part, all Olympics sport tes are not profitable.
No profitable sport is ever getting cut.
Just because people were fine with Olympic sports losing money in the past doesn't mean people will always be fine with it.
Personally - I don't care either way. If the school wants to fund money-losing sports, good. If they wanted to cut non-profitable sports - can't really argue against that either. It is supposed to be academic school first.