(07-28-2019 08:41 AM)BruceMcF Wrote:  

(07-27-2019 12:01 PM)AZcats Wrote:  The team sports at each school are Basketball and Ice Hockey for men and Basketball and Volleyball for women.

That much I was confident remembering.

Quote: All other teams at both schools are individual sports. Anchorage has only Women's Gymnastics.

The meet sports less so. But they both have track, indoor track and cross country ... you don't really save much cutting cross country if you have outdoor track and field, and while in a lot of country you can save something in facilities costs not having a indoor track facility, Anchorage could be a place where you need it so the outdoor track team can be ready for meets.

* Fairbanks has Cross Country but not Track & Field, either indoor or outdoor. *

Quote: The 2 team sports per gender rule is a NCAA rule, not just a D2 rule; so if Ice Hockey is dropped, they would be required to add another men's team sport or be forced out of the NCAA.

So they cannot even save money on that front by dropping down to Division 3.

* That would be correct unless I am also missing something. *

Quote: Rifle and Skiing compete for a single coed championship but schools have a men's and/or a women's team(s).

When I checked, I noted that UAF has M/W skiiing, but I didn't note whether they had a co-ed team or M/W teams ... given that I totally overlooked that they had rifle. Their team page says "Men's and Women's Rifle", so I take it that is co-ed. ...
... where that is important is that you need to have at least one men OR co-ed sport and one women's sport each playing season (Fall, Winter, Spring). Women's volleyball is Fall, Hockey is Winter, MBB/WBB is Winter, Rifle is Winter, M/W Skiing is Winter, Gymnastics is Winter ... so since Division 2 has a three season requirement just like Division 1, the track program is required for the 3 season requirement. M/W cross country and outdoor track & field, to cover M Fall, M/W Spring.

* Yeah, that's pretty much the gist of it about the coed sports. The three season requirement is also a NCAA rule and not just a division rule. I did not realize until yesterday that Fairbanks does not have any spring sports. Maybe the NCAA actually allowed an exception due to their location. *

Team sports: MBB(A), WBB(A), M Hockey(F), W Volleyball(A), then M&W Skiing(F), M/W cross country and outdoor track seems like the bare minimum ... women's gymnastics so Anchorage keeps one of its Div1 sports, co-ed rifle at Fairbanks would be extra, to reduce the pain of the slashing of sports at the two campuses, and AFAIU, if you have a track program, indoor track & field wouldn't likely cost a lot extra.