(01-02-2022 11:32 AM)CliftonAve Wrote: With all the talk on this board about the unnecessary costs of college athletics, are these schools rolling in the $$$? Are they getting hundreds of thousands of applications each year?
I guess that is where I sort of wanted to take this. For those who have either dropped all athletics, or never had them to begin with, what is their current and historical situation? Did athletics help or did they not have any bearing at all? Just a few questions to pose, but I was trying to gather the schools to even look at.
Here are the public schools that have been mentioned already -
Athens State University - school in Alabama that focus on upper division and grad classes.
Cal State - Channel Islands - Tried to add sports, but recession of 2008 stopped them
University of Alaska Southeast - small college in Ketchikan, dropped all sports in 1990.
New Mexico Tech - very small school with a really good engineering program.
Northeastern Illinois University - has sports at the DI level, but dropped all sports in 1998.
University of Baltimore - dropped sports in 1980, similar to Athens State in upperdivision and grad focus.
Metro State in Minneapolis
University of Baltimore
CU Denver