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(07-12-2021 11:03 AM)ODUwildman Wrote:  

(07-12-2021 10:18 AM)The Flagship Wrote:  Also, if you want to know why wrestling was cut, note the number of scholarships.

I don't understand this comment. Wrestling's 9.9 and couldn't even fully stock a starting lineup (10 athletes). Wrestling is one of the sports where you don't have the flexibility to move athletes around as much. Baseball, you can move outfielders around, you can put players in different positions - in wrestling, you're not making the 174-pounder a 133-pounder if someone gets hurt.

Baseball's 11.7 is absurd, but I'm not following the "want to know why wrestling was cut" line as it relates to yet another men's sport the NCAA scholarship limits won't allow an entire starting squad to have a full scholarship.

My point is that there are two factors: scholarship balance (Title IX) and program cost. Adding more women's sports would cost a lot of money (think softball complex). So it came down to cutting a mens program. I'm guessing it came down to baseball, swimming and diving, and wrestling. S/D was probably saved because we already have a womens team and there is no added cost to maintain the pool for the men. So it was either baseball or wrestling. They probably wanted to keep a spring sport even though maintaining the baseball facility is more costly than maintaining wrestling facilities.

Trust me, I'm not happy losing any sport, but difficult decisions had to be made and I'm just drilling down on some of the factors in that process.