(06-30-2021 06:15 AM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  Perhaps what they should have done after the Dayton rule, is passed subsequent legislation that grandfathered any existing DI-AA school that offered no/low scholarships but would not permit any new DI-AA football programs to offer less than 90% of the scholarship max as well as prevented existing programs who met the scholarship limits to drop below them.

The Dayton Rule was fine the way it is. You shouldn't be allowed to park a sport in DIII just because you don't want to invest in it and then have everything else DI.

Schools like Georgetown, Valparaiso and Davidson that were affected by the rule but are still sponsoring football today, would it really hurt their perception if they were to drop football today. I don't think so. All 3 schools spend less than 5% of their athletic budget on football. If you really don't want to invest in a program, why have it.