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Subject: Re: Ripple Effects

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IvySportsJunkie

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Date Posted: 12:34:12 06/11/25 Wed
In reply to: ivy guy 's message, "Ripple Effects" on 09:51:07 06/11/25 Wed

There also will be ripple effects for the Ivy League on the non-revenue team sports (such as track, swimming, wrestling, and volleyball) that may be adversely impacted by significant declines in the aggregate number of D1 scholarships in these sports. So many of the D1 Power Conference universities may need to identify which non-revenue sports to drop to offset their increased NIL and scholarship costs associated with their football and basketball teams. We already are seeing many colleges who recently have announced that they are eliminating several of their non-revenue sports.

While the Ivy League could benefit in its recruitment efforts within these non-revenue sports, I hope this does not happen since it only acts to lower overall participation opportunities in these respective sports.

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An Observer
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Date Posted: 13:46:58 06/11/25 Wed

There are about 350 NCAA Division I universities in this country. They probably sponsor an average of 19 sports each. That's 350 * 19 = 6,650 individual teams.

Of those six thousand teams, I estimate that there might be a grand total of 120 teams which make money.

I'm guessing 20 FBS football teams, 80 basketball teams and a smattering of 20 other sports (UConn women's basketball, Utah and a few SEC gymnastics--they fill 10-15,000 seat auditoriums to watch lithe women in leotards) make money.

So we're talking 120 teams out of 6,650 or less than 2%.

Everything else is potentially on the chopping block. Football and men's basketball will be the blob that consumes all the oxygen in most athletic departments.

It used to be that men's basketball and, for some, football subsidized every other program in the department. Those days are over. Now it's, to use Harvard's famous slogan, "Every tub on its own bottom."

And don't talk to me about Title IX. Title IX is 2024. It's about to be 2026. Money will talk and everything else will walk.

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