Anyone following the number of colleges that are shutting down athletic programs?

Those are some household names ..true powerhouses. How will college sports survive without those bluebloods

They won't shutter the whole program at once, but I expect we'll see schools from conferences like the Sunbelt, CUSA, etc start to wind down their involvement in Track & Field, Cross Country, Volleyball, Soccer, etc.

They'll scratch and claw every penny into football and basketball that they can to try and stay semi-relevant but it's already over

College sports at small and mid-major schools is dead

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Those are some household names ..true powerhouses. How will college sports survive without those bluebloods

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Yay let’s cheer on the demise of good things!

Why should those non-powerhouse athletic programs exist anyway? Less college athletics is good.

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It will absolutely kill non revenue sports at mid majors.

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Dont they have minimum numbers of programs that they must have?

You are going to see P5 schools start cutting programs as well to fund football and basketball.

Well, college athletics is getting way far away from what it was initially supposed to be. It’s to the point that it is unsustainable. You got teams winning national titles while losing tons of money (South Carolina women’s basketball).

Lindenwood cut their lacrosse, gymnastics, and track and field programs a two years ago and they’ve been in D1 since 2022.

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You got teams winning national titles while losing tons of money (South Carolina women’s basketball).

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When's the last women's national champion or men's national champion in any sport not named basketball, football, or LSU baseball that turned a profit? Even before all of this.

Many universities are having to slow down or stop athletic facility expansion to stop the NIL bleeding now. Every day, coaches, ADs, and staff make financial sacrifices that most know nothing about. The reason is obvious, there is no NIL ceiling cap, period. So our hard spending boosters continue to up the ante without conscience. BAMA had the first million-dollar QB and he legitimately had big business behind him. That is chicken feed in only 4 short recruiting cycles for an elite QB and it's coming directly out of the pockets of fans, and boosters who make up some of these shady collectives.

These NIL money-sucking small sports will be on the chopping block soon enough. EITHER, OR, is getting close to "mandatory operating procedure" at all schools.

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You are going to see P5 schools start cutting programs as well to fund football and basketball.

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This could kill Team USA Olympic performance. Most of our T&F and swimming athletes, and a lot of other countries’ athletes as well, are NCAA athletes.