Guess I'll just have to be a fan of lsu gymnastics then.
It’s money, full stop. We pretty much have the minimum number of programs to keep us in the SEC, the NCAA Division I, and Title IX compliance.
...and most importantly...Bass Fishing.
They would serve Mississippi athletes who would love to stay in state. If we are talking about program budget losses we might as well get rid of basketball, baseball, softball, volleyball etc.
To remain in NCAA Division 1, we have to sponsor 7 male sports and 7 female sports or 6 male sports and 8 female sports.
I understand completely. I was a soccer player. After juco I would have had to go private or out of state to play. MS has produced some great swimmers, unfortunately it’s Delta State or out of state for them. It absolutely sucks for our states youth in athletics when the the two largest institutions refuse to accept them.
I wonder why men’s swimming and diving loses $600,000 more than women’s swimming and diving?It’s money, full stop. We pretty much have the minimum number of programs to keep us in the SEC, the NCAA Division I, and Title IX compliance.
Using Alabama as a basis from the site below, they lose about:
$1.5 million on men’s swimming & diving
$900,000 on women’s swimming & diving
$1.3 million on women’s gymnastics
So, just those 3 alone are $3.7 million losses annually (same site showed Auburn losing $5.4 million). Assumedly that wouldn’t include startup costs like building/renting a regulation size natatorium.
The University of Alabama Athletics Programs
Interested in participating in a sports program at The University of Alabama? Find out the average sports scholarship awarded to each student athlete, how well UA ranks for each sport, how much money is allocated to the sports team, and more.www.collegefactual.com
You know not everything is part of the culture war, right?
Probably Title IX allocations from the school. Would not think that ticket sales could achieve that much money. Non-profit institution accounting can be confusing.
I've always thought we should add a men's sport that has the best scholarship to expense ratio and fill the roster with baseball players.
I have no idea for sure, but my 1st assumption is that there are fewer men's swimming & diving teams in the southeast than there are women's, so the men incur additional travel expenses for matches???
Maybe, but I think they travel together wherever they go. Probably what another poster said and it’s just an accounting thing.
It’s hockey. 18 men’s scholarships for I think a roster of 20. You could even make a women’s hockey team (18 scholarships) or rowing team (20 scholarships) full of softball players to balance it out.
