You do realize that VT is just 1 of many schools that

national teams pool from? In addition to the Olympic teams, there are under teams for various sports that can also be a sport in the Olympics. We get it you think the only sports that VT should sponsor are men's basketball and football. Unfortunately, the world is not structured that way and probably will never be structured that way. If the power conferences do decide to form their own association, then it may look very similar to the current NCAA structure in terms of the number of non-revenue sports they decide to sponsor.

Also keep in mind that schools want to recruit "the best and brightest students" in academics. Since majority of the non-revenue sports don't have a professional league that pay well, students who play these sports are truly student-athletes and will go pro in something else. If you want to see VT continue to become a top academic institution in the world, then sponsoring as many sports as possible can be a good/great academic recruiting tool especially for foreign students.

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Moving FAST, paying players and playoffs just happened. ** -- chuckd4vt 03/02/2016 2:48PM

Even though on paper breaking away seems like a no brainer -- VTHokie2000 03/01/2016 12:17PM

The SEC probably doesn't care, since they support so few sports... -- EDGEMAN 03/01/2016 12:54PM

The SEC may not, but I am pretty sure the ACC, Big Ten, and Pac-12 -- VTHokie2000 03/01/2016 1:14PM

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Who do these nonrevs serve? Fans? Schools? Athletes? localities? -- chuckd4vt 03/02/2016 2:58PM

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Football has a nice return on investment. Tell me why nonrevs are important -- chuckd4vt 03/03/2016 12:48AM

They aren't if you don't want a well-rounded university. -- reestuart 03/04/2016 09:18AM

But football brings in MAJOR coin and exposure. More than dorms. ** -- chuckd4vt 03/04/2016 3:53PM

You can't lump all the non-revenue sports into 1 basket -- VTHokie2000 03/02/2016 3:24PM

Either they make money or they do not. Only keep minimum TitleIX allows. ** -- chuckd4vt 03/02/2016 3:30PM

Ummm.they can do both. -- VTHokie2000 03/02/2016 3:59PM

They're called nonrevenue sports for a reason. -- chuckd4vt 03/03/2016 12:53AM

They are called "non-revenue" sports because historically -- VTHokie2000 03/03/2016 10:45AM

I'm all for a school keeping programs that make them money. Why not? -- chuckd4vt 03/03/2016 10:54AM

You can't equate revenue sports with profitability -- VTHokie2000 03/03/2016 11:36AM

So practically every U from sea to sea should spend millions for Olympics? -- chuckd4vt 03/03/2016 10:52AM

You do realize that VT is just 1 of many schools that -- VTHokie2000 03/03/2016 11:51AM

Academics aren't served by a 2.9 softball player being admitted. Ridiculous ** -- chuckd4vt 03/03/2016 3:07PM

Unfortunately for you, college athletics is changing at a rapid pace. -- chuckd4vt 03/03/2016 3:05PM

Just because a school offers a student a full or partial athletic -- VTHokie2000 03/03/2016 4:50PM

So VT should pay tens of millions of dollars/yr for 1 bronze medal? -- chuckd4vt 03/03/2016 5:49PM

Again you are only looking at it from the athletic department's perspecitve -- VTHokie2000 03/03/2016 6:53PM

I do agree there should be mandate at some level -- VTHokie2000 03/01/2016 2:43PM

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