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To be completely honest, to me this seems like schools are right-sizing their athletic departments. I get that there are people whose feelings will be hurt in the process, and that is unfortunate. I also get that a lot of ADs don't do a great job of handling the cuts, but at the end of the day, sponsoring more sports than you can afford to support just to avoid bad PR or hurting feelings seems like a pretty bad idea. If a business were just to keep a bunch of departments that have been losing money for decades, we would think they are crazy. I get this isn't truly a business model, and there is a balance between supporting sports that do not generate revenue, but add to the university in other ways (not honestly sure how Golf adds anything to the university, but I will give the benefit of the doubt). There does have to be some sanity, though. If you have a bunch of sports that are losing money, and you cannot afford to support the sports that make money, and by doing so support all of the non revenue sports, to the level that they need to be supported, then you are not managing your program correctly.