(10-20-2020 11:39 AM)nj alum Wrote:  It’s very simple.

Assuming the funding comes through (big assumption), two men’s sports being brought back satisfies Title IX through a combination of (1) added women’s sport, (2) increase the number of women’s roster spots, and (3) take some men’s roster spots from existing teams and apply them to the two men’s sports brought back.

This is all set up to be a beautiful thing ... if the donors come through. If not, it will continue to be a struggle.

Except this time, everybody knows the deal.

The tricky part (apart from actually getting the donors to open their wallets) will be how the funding is proposed to be structured.

The Huge model (for want of a better term) was "The Tribe 7 sports must be fully funded by income from endowments, at budget levels that permit them to offer the max number of schollies allowed by the NCAA." (Hence the ridiculous "$150 million in endowments required" number for the Tribe 7.

What we need going forward, based on REALISTIC annual budgets, is something like the following:

"Most teams will need sufficient donor support that X% of their annual budget is covered by endowment income and another Y% is covered by sport-specific annual giving." (Or perhaps "A total of X+Y% is covered by any combination of endowment income and annual giving."). "Our experienced Development professionals will help the teams line up and maintain this funding by doing the following: _____________________________________________."

"The above doesn't include teams A, B and C, which are treated differently for the following very good and indisputably fair reason: __________________. They will be treated this way: __________________."