(06-12-2020 07:15 AM)Florida tribe fan Wrote:  

(05-30-2020 08:51 AM)nj alum Wrote:  What drives the cost of a sport? Scholarships.

Compare the scholarship money from the 70’s to the scholarship money today. You start there. Plenty of us competed for the school without scholarship money in the 70’s.

What drives the cost of a sport? Schedule.

I just found the home baseball schedule from 1979. 14 home games.

Whether you want to believe it or not, the funding of athletic scholarships inures to the benefit of the academic side as it helps sustain the outrageous tuition costs on a school-wide basis.

The “fringe” sports, IMO, are the heart and soul of W&M athletics, and to a good extent, the school as a whole.

You cut a sport, you cut the College off from the type of people that that sport attracts.

This is a demographics issue, as well as a financial one.

The MAC, of all places, stealing a march. Seeking to attract a new demographic.

https://www.morningjournalnews.com/uncat...onference/

Will be as popular as rooting for a debate team. I get the idea of formally structuring competitions and sanctioning a club of sorts, but this is not news. Further, with zero travel costs or scholarships, "teams" can play anyone they want including internationally. Does a conference really need to exist?