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VTHokie2000

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I do agree there should be mandate at some level


However, it may not completely resolve the issue. For example the NCAA currently sponsors (aka award championships) in 30-40. Currently here is the NCAA requirements for a school to participate at the DI level:

Division I member institutions have to sponsor at least seven sports for men and seven for women (or six for men and eight for women) with two team sports for each gender. Each playing season has to be represented by each gender as well. There are contest and participant minimums for each sport, as well as scheduling criteria. For sports other than football and basketball, Division I schools must play 100 percent of the minimum number of contests against Division I opponents -- anything over the minimum number of games has to be 50 percent Division I. Men's and women's basketball teams have to play all but two games against Division I teams; for men, they must play one-third of all their contests in the home arena. Schools that have football are classified as Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) or NCAA Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA). Football Bowl Subdivision schools are usually fairly elaborate programs. Football Bowl Subdivision teams have to meet minimum attendance requirements (average 15,000 people in actual or paid attendance per home game), which must be met once in a rolling two-year period. NCAA Football Championship Subdivision teams do not need to meet minimum attendance requirements. Division I schools must meet minimum financial aid awards for their athletics program, and there are maximum financial aid awards for each sport that a Division I school cannot exceed.

The reason I bring this up is because the NCAA currently gives schools a lot of flexibility on which sports they wish to sponsor. So for example men's water polo currently only has less than 10 power conference schools participating in the sport (out of at least 50 other DI schools). Even if the new organization mandates a minimum number of non-revenue sports, there is no guarantee that we will see an increase in the number of schools that sponsor men's water polo. In order to sponsor water polo, it would require a school to build a special water polo pool (dimensions are different from an Olympic pool) and may even require annexing the current aquatic center or build a brand new facility to house the water polo pool. Even though there are quite a few professional water polo leagues in Europe and people can make decent/good money playing the sport, it isn't a popular sport in the US. Will schools be willing to invest a lot of money into sports that may not be very popular in the US or let alone their region of the US? For a lot of the non-revenue sports, the majority of teams that currently sponsor the sport are non-power conference schools.

The reason I mention water polo is because the PAC-12 has won 42 national championships in men's water polo even though only 5 schools currently sponsor the sport.
[Post edited by VTHokie2000 at 03/01/2016 2:43PM]

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Link: NCAA Division Requirements


Posted: 03/01/2016 at 2:43PM



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