(05-18-2020 04:27 PM)Wedge Wrote:  

(05-18-2020 03:50 PM)TrueBlueDrew Wrote:  I'm surprised Furman cut their baseball program over their Men's soccer program. According to Equity in athletics, Men's Soccer costs the school 300k annually while Baseball only cost 188k.

Are those numbers believable?

At pretty much every D-I school, baseball costs significantly more than soccer, and baseball is one of the most expensive "non-revenue" sports to operate.

Question is, how much of those are operating costs, and how much of those are scholarship costs? If Furman's soccer team is one of it's highest profile sports, it might allocate substantially more of it's scholarships to soccer than to baseball ...
... and indeed, it's relative success in baseball and soccer would make that quite plausible.

But if it recruits soccer players who can handle Furman classes, just not Furman's tuition bill ... and don't have to run a "athlete friendly" major for them ... how much does adding a student to be a scholarship athlete to advertise Furman on the soccer field really cost the educational staff and facilities budget at Furman? They'll have their faculty/student ratio to protect, so it won't be zero, but it could well be substantially less than half.