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Stanford cutting 11 sports

PostPosted: Wed Jul 08, 2020 2:21 pm
by PonyPride
From ESPN.com:

Stanford to cut 11 varsity sports, cites pandemic as breaking point

Alex Scarborough
ESPN Staff Writer

Stanford, which has long boasted one of the most robust collections of varsity sports in the country, will cut 11 of its varsity programs at the conclusion of the 2020-21 academic year as it deals with the ongoing financial ramifications of the coronavirus pandemic.

The 11 sports that will be discontinued are men's and women's fencing, field hockey, lightweight rowing, men's rowing, co-ed and women's sailing, squash, synchronized swimming, men's volleyball and wrestling.

Coaches and athletes were notified of the decision via Zoom conferences on Wednesday.

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Re: Stanford cutting 11 sports

PostPosted: Wed Jul 08, 2020 4:19 pm
by Roach
Going to see a lot of schools doing that. Money talks.

Re: Stanford cutting 11 sports

PostPosted: Wed Jul 08, 2020 5:44 pm
by gostangs
Every single one of those sports should be a club sport anyway. Fencing?
Somebody saw their chance with the cover of Covid and took the shot.

Re: Stanford cutting 11 sports

PostPosted: Wed Jul 08, 2020 10:44 pm
by Vitale
At least 8 of them are Olympic sports. You don't develop Olympians in club sports.
They're not all my favorites, but this is a bad omen for teams at schools across the country.

Re: Stanford cutting 11 sports

PostPosted: Thu Jul 09, 2020 8:29 am
by deucetz
Stanford has the 3rd biggest endowment at 27.7 billion. This definitely shows things to come, especially for private schools.

Re: Stanford cutting 11 sports

PostPosted: Thu Jul 09, 2020 9:35 pm
by PonyPride
And now the Big 10 is making sports play fall sports against conference opponents only:

https://www.espn.com/college-football/s ... ports-fall

Re: Stanford cutting 11 sports

PostPosted: Sat Jul 11, 2020 9:15 am
by DallasDiehard
Pac-12 doing the same

Re: Stanford cutting 11 sports

PostPosted: Sun Jul 12, 2020 11:51 am
by PonySnob
Florida State cutting athletic budget by 20% and eliminating 25 staff positions. In addition, salary reductions of between 10-25% across the board. It’ll be interesting to see what happens to the SMU athletic department budget.

Re: Stanford cutting 11 sports

PostPosted: Sun Jul 12, 2020 4:32 pm
by gostangs
i actually think trimming down these college sports and athletic departments is a good thing. Olympic sports should have their own training groups - shouldn't need universities to foot that bill - its not their charge. Also on the revenue sports - they have become entirely too "pro" anyway. Let the NFL start up a minor league and get college sports back to students.

Re: Stanford cutting 11 sports

PostPosted: Sun Jul 12, 2020 4:42 pm
by SoCal_Pony
Exempting Men’s FB from Title IX would be a step in the right direction, but i don’t see it happening in this environment.

Re: Stanford cutting 11 sports

PostPosted: Sun Jul 12, 2020 8:16 pm
by Hoss
Good point, ponysnob. Budget cuts at SMU have to be coming.

Re: Stanford cutting 11 sports

PostPosted: Mon Jul 13, 2020 1:37 am
by PonyPride
Now JUCOs likely moving all sports to spring, per ESPN

Re: Stanford cutting 11 sports

PostPosted: Mon Jul 13, 2020 1:20 pm
by PonyPride
Patriot League cancels fall sports

Re: Stanford cutting 11 sports

PostPosted: Tue Jul 14, 2020 12:38 pm
by Water Pony
If we can, I don’t think we should or will cancel any sports. We want to demonstrate we have a Power 5 Athletic structure, expectation and budget. Cutting us further will ensure we will remain Group 5 or worse.

We have to play long ball. We have the means, if we choose to lean in, not out, during this crisis.

Re: Stanford cutting 11 sports

PostPosted: Tue Jul 14, 2020 1:02 pm
by mustangxc
SoCal_Pony wrote:Exempting Men’s FB from Title IX would be a step in the right direction, but i don’t see it happening in this environment.

It's so obvious but will never happen because of the climate we live in.