Re: REPORT: North Dakota cutting women's hockey
Key detail:
NDSU was already running a very lean, 16 sport, budget. (As a side note, you should take a peek into their Title IX standing. They're one of the few using "Third Prong" rather than "First Prong" for equity.) And I stand by my prior statements that there's more to come on NDSU's budgets soon enough. It'll come about May 15, after NDSU finals week and the students are gone. It's their standard MO and the Fargo media gives them a pass.
In these moves, UND went down to 16 sports, like NDSU. (Well, 17, but men's golf is all but dead.)
The two (NDSU and UND) budgets align fairly well now. And yet they don't look anything alike in how they report. If you dig up NDSU's FY16 NCAA budget reporting you'll see that they apply required "donations" to the sport that season tickets were bought for. Their individual sports look less red; their unallocated line item is very small.
And there's a detail you must also consider: Notice they all stop and/or hold firm at 16 sponsored sports. That's the number for DI FBS. That's the dream for most Midwest schools that play football (see: UxDs, xDSUs, Montana, Montana State, et al) right now at FCS. Now, clearly, they'll never be 'bama or Clemson, but, they could well play at the SunBelt or MAC level given the right circumstance. And, that right circumstance just may be forming up as the motion continues in Midwest conference alignments*. And before you say FBS is more expensive, actually no, it's not. Any sort of conference bowl game alignment (even MAC and Belt have those) is a better payday than the FCS playoffs.
*It looks like the MVC is poaching the OVC and the Horizon for teams. This will probably affect the Summit as the Horizon will probably look there for new members.
Originally posted by Sean Pickett
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NDSU was already running a very lean, 16 sport, budget. (As a side note, you should take a peek into their Title IX standing. They're one of the few using "Third Prong" rather than "First Prong" for equity.) And I stand by my prior statements that there's more to come on NDSU's budgets soon enough. It'll come about May 15, after NDSU finals week and the students are gone. It's their standard MO and the Fargo media gives them a pass.
In these moves, UND went down to 16 sports, like NDSU. (Well, 17, but men's golf is all but dead.)
The two (NDSU and UND) budgets align fairly well now. And yet they don't look anything alike in how they report. If you dig up NDSU's FY16 NCAA budget reporting you'll see that they apply required "donations" to the sport that season tickets were bought for. Their individual sports look less red; their unallocated line item is very small.
And there's a detail you must also consider: Notice they all stop and/or hold firm at 16 sponsored sports. That's the number for DI FBS. That's the dream for most Midwest schools that play football (see: UxDs, xDSUs, Montana, Montana State, et al) right now at FCS. Now, clearly, they'll never be 'bama or Clemson, but, they could well play at the SunBelt or MAC level given the right circumstance. And, that right circumstance just may be forming up as the motion continues in Midwest conference alignments*. And before you say FBS is more expensive, actually no, it's not. Any sort of conference bowl game alignment (even MAC and Belt have those) is a better payday than the FCS playoffs.
*It looks like the MVC is poaching the OVC and the Horizon for teams. This will probably affect the Summit as the Horizon will probably look there for new members.
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