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Maintaining a D1 football team is expensive. The NCAA requires at least 7 mens programs. Besides basketball, everything else becomes a line-item expense. ODU was at 8 (sailing is not NCAA sponsored), so wrestling lost the budget battle with the other remaining sports.
Golf and tennis are essentially self funding, paid for by wealthy families of student-athletes. Baseball and swimming have deep roots in the region. Soccer is cheap and shares facilities with a women& #39;s program to offset the mens& #39; scholarships.
Pretty sure I can guess what& #39;s in this & #39;study& #39;. Facilities not shared with any other sport and can be repurposed. Scholarships not offset by a women& #39;s team. Salaries and admin cost will make up the rest.
The scary thing is I& #39;m sure most ADs have many reports like this on file and ready to go when needed. With budget crises occurring at nearly every school in the NCAA, it& #39;s only a matter of time before we see more reports and more program cuts (in all sports).
Which is frightening because even when things go back to & #39;normal& #39; it will be a new normal, and it& #39;s a hell of a lot easier to cut a program than it is to start one up.
