tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34418100.post7121186290918890367..comments2023-10-23T09:21:51.854-04:00Comments on Title IX Blog: People are catching onEBuzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15887304836671743255noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34418100.post-22872478904997162162007-02-05T17:25:00.000-05:002007-02-05T17:25:00.000-05:00Ohio, in fact, shelled out virtually nothing for F...Ohio, in fact, shelled out virtually nothing for Frank Solich, who then elevated the football program to unprecedented heights. <br /><br />Ohio football, like it or not, draws 20,000 fans and has appeared numerous times on national television this season. Eliminate the head coaching position of the only sport that garners any attention outside the confines of Athens just to add an unwatched sport and a handful of scholarships?<br /><br />That makes no sense, economically, popularly or logically.<br /><br />The fact of it is that college sports don't pay for themselves under any circumstances. They are all expensive "fluff" - whether you are talking about wrestling, water polo, curling or the "revenue generating" sports of basketball and football.<br /><br />Ohio is smart to eliminate programs if they are going through budget problems, and they are also smart to consolidate funds in sports that garner the most attention.<br /><br />If men's programs are disporportionately eliminated, I suppose that is unfair, but it would be unfair to eliminate women's programs too. No school likes to see programs go away, because they never come back.<br /><br />On the other hand, it isn't any college's job to ensure that it has an enormous slate of varsity athletics. Schools need to specialize: Pick 5 programs in addition to basketball and football (although in the case of some schools like Rice, Florida International, Troy, etc., football should probably go on the chopping block, too) in which to specialize.<br /><br />As it is, some of the lesser sports (women's soccer, for example, or men's swimming), the talent gets very diluted over so many schools offering scholarships, and the product becomes horrible.<br /><br />I think by streamlining varsity athletics to a relatively small number, a college puts itself in better position to win national amd conference championships in the sports it retains.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com