Olympic sports are always on the chopping block

Jul 27, 2024
12:38:43pm

1984coug All-American

Most schools won’t fund all of these scholarships, but they aren’t being forced to anyway. It just opens up the possibility for them.

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1984coug

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Explain to me why Olympic sports don’t get wrecked under the new roster cap

Iman23

Jul 27, 12:06pm

The Track/XC message board think this is a disaster for college track/xc

Joe Banks

Jul 27, 12:12pm

Olympic sports are always on the chopping block

1984coug

Jul 27, 12:38pm

And terrible for Olympic success

molodyets

Jul 27, 1:00pm

yeah, this will be curtains for many sports unfortunately. I was told by someone

runnincoug

Jul 27, 2:30pm

Yes, the big 12 is committed

1984coug

Jul 27, 7:42pm

Reducing football scholarships to 85 helped smaller schools. Increasing it will

refunder

Jul 27, 4:12pm

Also looks like schools with larger rosters (eg BYU) will need to cut kids.

byuballstothewall

Jul 27, 5:18pm

Sounds like most girls XC teams will have to take massive cuts. Right?

Joe Banks

Jul 27, 5:32pm

could be any sport that doesn’t bring in revenue. At BYU could even be wbb

byuballstothewall

Jul 27, 5:45pm

Girls XC teams are in the mid 20s at lots of places for title 9 purposes.

Joe Banks

Jul 27, 5:52pm

Yes will need to get that down to 17. And doubtful schools fund all 17 scollies.

byuballstothewall

Jul 27, 6:02pm

Word is some schools that aren’t currently players in XC will start funding all 17 and int’l depth will change coll. XC

Joe Banks

Jul 27, 6:10pm

How will it affect budgets when 10, 20 or 50% of revenue must be given to the

ptcougr

Jul 27, 6:19pm

no, they don't divide it according to revenue. Each athlete gets the same

runnincoug

Jul 27, 6:27pm

Why does more scholarships mean smaller rosters? Also what does this line mean?

ColonelMustard

Jul 27, 6:29pm

See my post from yesterday where I tried to explain this in detail

BYUMizzou

Jul 27, 6:56pm

Thank you. Extremely helpful. Are you certain bball had roster caps?

byuballstothewall

Jul 27, 7:15pm

Football may be wrecked, too. Possible backdoor return to warehousing.

Les IsMore

Jul 27, 7:52pm

Players will transfer though. Unlimited moves.

Joe Banks

Jul 27, 9:22pm

It’s acknowledging that everybody knows those walk ons are in payroll for the

molodyets

Jul 27, 9:33pm

They don’t all get scholarships now. Roster sizes will be expanded back to where

jvquarterback

Jul 27, 9:05pm

Huh? What do you mean.

byuballstothewall

Jul 28, 10:50am

It’s just a proposal. It’ll get fixed.

jvquarterback

Jul 28, 8:19pm

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