Stanford cuts 11 sports varsity sports from athletics department due to 'limited financial resources

[Demovictory9]

https://www.cbssports.com/general/news/stanford-cuts-11-sports-varsity-sports-from-athletics-department-due-to-limited-financial-resources/

Stanford cuts 11 sports varsity sports from athletics department due to 'limited financial resources'
University leaders described the decision as 'heartbreaking' in a letter sent on Wednesday

Stanford University announced Wednesday that it will cut nearly one-third of its Division I sports programs at the end of the 2020-21 academic year as the COVID-19 crisis has threatened to worsen an already existing athletics department deficit. The move will affect more than 240 student-athletes and 22 coaches, according to a letter from school leadership.

The 11 sports that will be discontinued are as follows: men's and women's fencing, field hockey, lightweight rowing, men's rowing, co-ed and women's sailing, squash, synchronized swimming, men's volleyball and wrestling. University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne, provost Persis Drell and athletic director Bernard Muir signed the letter which detailed the "heartbreaking news."

"The decision to discontinue these 11 varsity sports programs comes down primarily to finances and competitive excellence," the letter said. "With so many varsity sports and limited financial resources, we would no longer be able to support a world-class athletics experience for our student-athletes without making these changes."

[Jim__]

1. That's too bad.

The sports that are being cut are mostly sports that are not "big-money" sports. But people do benefit tremendously from participating in competitive sports. 240 student-athletes is a relatively small number, but it is a real loss for those students.

[Awsi Dooger]

2. Gad, Stanford has the best athletic department in the country

They win the overall trophy every year. I'm sure this is sending shockwaves. Men's volleyball is the one that really jumped out at me.

Without the certainty of king football there are nervous athletes all across the country in the so-called lesser sports.

[Blue_true]

4. College Basketball likely bring in close to what Football brings in,

in the post-season Basketball likely bring in scads more, March Madness is a big ticket item for tv networks and advertisers, events spread out over something like three weeks.

[Awsi Dooger]

9. Not remotely close...NCAA benefits from basketball but not the schools

"Men's basketball is the largest source of the NCAA's total revenue because the NCAA tournament brings in lots of money. But even before teams reach the tournament level, they generate revenue for their schools with individual basketball games. And at these school levels, basketball takes second chair to football for total revenue generated.

In fact, football garners more revenue than the next 35 other sports combined at Division I schools. On average, football brings in $31.9 million in revenue, while men's basketball (the second-highest grossing sport) comes in a distant second at $8.1 million. For reference, women's basketball brings in $1.8 million, while rowing brings in just $932,646"

https://finance.zacks.com/much-money-college-sports-generate-10346.html#:~:text=In%20fact%2C%20football%20garners%20more,distant%20second%20at%20%248.1%20million.

[Blue_true]

11. I didn't realize that the NCAA kept the Basketball revenue, or the lion's share of it.

What is the March Madness rights contract worth, $600 million to $1 billion per cycle?

[Celerity]

8. damn, I just looked it up, they have won it EVERY year except the very first one, 25 in a row

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NACDA_Directors%27_Cup





https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NCAA_schools_with_the_most_NCAA_Division_I_championships

NCAA Division I Team Championships




Combined NCAA Division I Team and Individual Championships





Most collegiate team national championships

[Awsi Dooger]

10. Thank you for the charts

As a USC alum I've been well aware of that streak. It isn't as well known nationwide because everyone focuses on solely football and basketball.

Stanford is incredibly consistent and dominant in sports like swimming and golf and water polo, things that are big if you attend a Pac 12 school.

Every indication has always been that the lower sports are treated incredibly well at Stanford, from coaching to staffing to travel, etc. That's why athletes who are already famous like Tiger Woods and Michelle Wie and Katie Ledecky have chosen Stanford, along with the academics of course...with a wink regarding Tiger.

[Celerity]

12. Tiger Woods is quite disliked here in Sweden, lol, after what he did to Elin Nordegren.

[rufus dog]

15. Yup, look at the PAC12 dominance.

After Stanford, UCLA, then SC and the Arizona schools.

Issue is the PAC12 can’t compete in football. Partial west coast bias and add they make teams play each other unlike the racists fucks in the SEC.

And for you SEC defenders, play a full conference schedule in football and then get back to me, you anti democracy fucks.

And ponder this. The SEC bullshit scheduling, funded be the media has a direct correlation to how we have tRump as a President.

[former9thward]

16. Roll Tide

Bitter much?

[rufus dog]

17. I have no respect for a conference that flaunts rules

Ducks a full schedule of conference opponents to allow for a bye week in late October/early November

Alabama should have got the exact same penalty as SC because the were guilty of exactly the same things as SC

Bitter Fuck No. respect for your program FUCK NO.

White privileged bullshit from ignorant fucks who bend the rules and then fucking whine up a storm.

[Initech]

3. Damn it. COVID has just taken a colossal dump on our society.

It's going to take a hell of a lot to rebuild from this. It might take decades even.

[Blue_true]

5. The interesting thing is that if people just uniformly wore masks, we would have

90-95% normal economic activity, 100% with redesign of indoor air handling systems.

[roamer65]

6. We took a double hit from COVID-19 and COVID-45.

This country will never recover and will not stay united.

Mark my words.

[Initech]

13. I'm really worried about what could happen after the election.

Of all the years for a massive pandemic to happen, it has to be an election year, one with the most volatile, unstable president in US history at that.

[Goodheart]

7. OH NO! NOT SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING!

What? They couldn't afford the nosepins? Rat bastards!

[Demovictory9]

14. Stanford is super rich school... they could have afforded the nosepins and the coach