(07-12-2019 07:00 PM)MidWestMidMajor Wrote:  

(07-12-2019 02:41 AM)BruceMcF Wrote:  

(07-11-2019 07:15 PM)Cyniclone Wrote:  For what it's worth, it appears that UA and UAA are the only schools in the state to offer intercollegiate athletics. So if they drop them, the state will have no college sports.

That would be the point of consolidation from an athletic program perspective ... eg, a combined UA and UAA could have gymnastics, track / cross country and basketball at Anchorage and skiiing at Fairbanks, and since track / cross country are two sports, hit the 5/5 required to stay Division II. But they'd need another team sport for men and women ... hockey at Fairbanks and women's volleyball (at either) would clear that bar.

I've seen that suggested, but can you actually do that? Will the NCAA allow the sharing of 10 sports across 2 different universities? For example, can the Univ. of Nebraska (main campus in Lincoln) claim the Univ Nebr. at Omaha's hockey team? Can UN-Omaha put its hockey team in the Big 10 conference because, you know, it's all the "Univ of Nebraska"?

I'm not sure that it is possible to divide the teams between 2 separate degree granting universities. If they can't, then they will need to move all the sports to Anchorage. It would be nice if the NCAA would allow it under these extreme circumstances on behalf of the "student athletes" they say that they are all about. But the NCAA has a rule book it must follow.

This is in the context of the discussion in Alaska of possibly consolidating the two Universities of Alaska into a single institution, hence "That would be the point of consolidation from an athletic program perspective" ...
... the main point of consolidation would be the imagined or hoped for cost reduction in consolidating the two universities into a single degree granting University with those as the two primary campuses.

(Though the cost reductions might not end up being as much as imagined, since it only happens if redundant administration positions are removed, and the process turns the attention of the people who are paid to come up with more excuses to hire more administrators to the task of justifying have a "Fairbanks location" and an "Anchorage location" person in each spot, plus a "University administrator" to oversee their work.)