How do you know these programs are unprofitable?

It is possible that a school (maybe even quite a few schools) find some of these "non-revenue" programs "profitable" for a variety reasons. Also, just because a program is deemed to be "unprofitable" doesn't mean the school can automatically drop it. Remember that Title IX is still the big elephant in the room that no one really wants to talk about at this juncture. Title IX becomes an even bigger elephant when a school (i.e. VT) only sponsors the bare minimum number of sports to compete at a certain division level. It is possible that an unprofitable program could be saved because eliminating it would also require eliminating a profitable program in order to comply with Title IX or require the school to sponsor a new sport to take its place.

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Posted: 02/22/2016 at 3:15PM

College teams becoming copycats as gap betweens haves, have-nots widens -- goldendomer 02/19/2016 3:36PM

EVERYONE needs to back away and start over. -- chuckd4vt 02/20/2016 12:25PM

Many of those lower schools you mention are at -- maddogbob 02/22/2016 12:11AM

Because the gap is already there. Let's remove the sleaze factor ASAP. -- chuckd4vt 02/22/2016 01:34AM

The gap was there when VT was not relevant on the national stage. -- maddogbob 02/22/2016 7:29PM

Not at all. The NCAA's a broken experiment. Sleazy as heck. -- chuckd4vt 02/22/2016 8:35PM

Even though on paper it may seem simple for the P65 -- VTHokie2000 02/22/2016 10:35AM

If the P65 weren't subsidizing others, they'd have plenty to field teams. -- chuckd4vt 02/22/2016 11:51AM

Even if the P65 decide to require a minimum number of sports -- VTHokie2000 02/22/2016 12:26PM

Sure it will take a yr or two to ramp up. 20 or so teams is plenty. -- chuckd4vt 02/22/2016 1:33PM

My point was that a majority of schools that sponsor the sport -- VTHokie2000 02/22/2016 2:30PM

I'm fairly certain Michigan will be able to find 15 or so P65 teams to play -- chuckd4vt 02/22/2016 2:35PM

How do you know these programs are unprofitable? -- VTHokie2000 02/22/2016 3:15PM

Clearly, most programs are not. And Title IX will be an issue. -- chuckd4vt 02/22/2016 9:38PM

No Senator or Congressman (wanting to be re-elected) -- VTHokie2000 02/22/2016 10:03PM

Not suggesting Title IX will be done away with. -- chuckd4vt 02/22/2016 10:30PM

It ties back to a point I made on another post where schools -- VTHokie2000 02/22/2016 11:12PM

I'm fairly certain Michigan will be able to find 15 or so P65 teams to play -- chuckd4vt 02/22/2016 2:34PM

One observation from the article about someone at SDSU sleeping in the -- maddogbob 02/19/2016 6:23PM

It is a good article. The only issue I found with the article -- VTHokie2000 02/19/2016 4:19PM

Government agencies would increase costs and make matters worse. ;) ** -- Old Line Hokie 02/19/2016 6:08PM

I do think government involvement would make matters worse. -- VTHokie2000 02/20/2016 11:10AM

How do you know these programs are unprofitable?

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