Regime?

If I am an AD, I am looking at my bottom line and I now basically HAVE to (I know people are saying this is voluntary, but let’s be real, it’s an arms race) fund an additional 20 full ride scholarships for football.

Aren’t I going to look at tennis and volleyball (maybe not at BYU, but they are an outlier in fan support), swim, golf, and anywhere else and just cut those scholarships to make the numbers work?

Especially when most programs outside the top 10 programs operate in the red? BYU is unique in that this is newly found B12 money that we have never had AND tuition is insanely low already, relative to other schools.

How do we not see entire Olympic programs cut, even at Top 50 programs?

If you use the “it’s opt-in, you don’t HAVE to pay these scholarships,” then how do you see a volleyball program at Pepperdine or George Mason, or UC Irvine competing, if they decide not to fund all 18 spots, with the likes of UCLA, USC, and BYU (hopefully) likely will? I mean they can continue to do what they do now, but the talent gap will eventually force a separation of the 6 “football school” men’s volleyball programs.

I don’t see this as a positive.

What am I missing in this? I used volleyball as my example, which is a bit unique, but aren’t these real issues? Or am I mistaken?