(10-20-2020 11:53 AM)Tribal Wrote:  Everybody knowing the deal and having a fighting chance to save "their sport," is all I ask.

We also need to come to terms regarding gymnastics. I think that sport, at a university level, is doomed.

VB hasn't put up much of a fight and I don't think they'll raise the money. This, of course, means a viable men's team is done.

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Tribal,

I don't think that at this point it matters that gymnastics is doomed and that volleyball has not raised a dime. For that matter, I do not believe that all of the money that women's swimming has raised to "save their sport" is even needed by them in order to force the issue. The grim reality is that W&M cannot cut ANY women's sports in order to be Title IX compliant, and cannot force any of these three teams to raise a dime to ensure their continued existence.

In reality, I do not believe that Title IX compliance ever popped into Huge's head when she was attempting to deal with a 3 million dollar budget deficit. If she had been smart, she would have started off by announcing that we were going to be cutting men's gymnastics, swimming, and indoor/outdoor track in order to be Title IV compliant, one of the three issues which Martin says that we need to address. Under that situation, the only real gripe that these four men's teams would have then had would be, "Why did you not pare down the rosters of other men's sports in order to save ours?" Huge could have then transparently shared with all of us what the budget deficit would look like going forward without these four sports and sought insight on how to balance the budget WITHOUT having to cut additional programs from both the men's and women's side of the ledger while remaining NCAA Division 1 compliant.