An interesting analysis, although filled with caveats. (It doesn't really apply to WCBB, though.)
Money changes everything.
Money changes everything.
How Title IX Actually Makes Money for Some Schools
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True to a very small set of circumstances. I would question whether most schools couldn't fill those slots (if they wanted to) with regular students. What I found most interesting was that the NCAA gives a (small) stipend to schools to add sports above the minimum number (I didn't know that) and it is always a good reminder that small sports do not have full scholarships for all athletes (that said, many have academic scholarships as well - in the smaller sports you can have both, unlike the major sports).
FWIW, I think most schools have some extra space in practice. That said, I would agree that the article may somewhat overstate the likelihood that adding a sport makes money. And given how athletic departments do their accounting, none of the incremental revenue gets allocated to athletics anyway.
One of the dumbest articles I have ever read. Author obviously has an agenda. You can create scenarios that make anything work out the way you want.
In this case the author chose an obscure sport that requires no facilities, at a minor school that does not attract top athletes in any sport and awards only 2.47 scholarships out of 8, not by any means a formula for success, but it does prove his number.
As he mentions in that article, that obscure sport was dropped by that minor school. Why would they do that if it made money?
In this case the author chose an obscure sport that requires no facilities, at a minor school that does not attract top athletes in any sport and awards only 2.47 scholarships out of 8, not by any means a formula for success, but it does prove his number.
As he mentions in that article, that obscure sport was dropped by that minor school. Why would they do that if it made money?
One thing I should note that's definitely true - athletic department accounting is filled with strange things, generally intended to make football and men's basketball look better. For instance, university-wide advertising money often is allocated almost entirely to football and men's basketball, while general administrative costs might be divided equally among all sports, even though some of the eyeballs that are sold for advertising are watching or listening to women's basketball or wrestling, and even though football probably takes up more admin costs than any other program by a wide margin.
On the question of why you'd drop a sport that seems to make money, that's because the athletic department gets no credit for the additional tuition payments - for bowling, in that example, it looks like it's a cost center except for the NCAA money.
On the question of why you'd drop a sport that seems to make money, that's because the athletic department gets no credit for the additional tuition payments - for bowling, in that example, it looks like it's a cost center except for the NCAA money.
