Will COVID-19 be the needle that finally bursts the sports bubble?

FTFY

 

I think it's just 16 total to be D-1 (FBS). I don't think it has to be split evenly among men's and women's and can't for smaller ADs because of Title IX and football.

 

Doubt it. 6 of the sports they cut are not NCAA championship sports. Also: Schools limited to counting 20 teams’ performances in a year. They’ll still have 25 sports.

 

But besides all that, the post was nails.

 

Minimum of 16 total. If them, at least six must be men’s and at least eight must be women’s.

 

I think I remember when researching this stuff when I still covered college sports that I ran across Nevada's program, and that they had six men's sports and nine women's. One of those men's sports was rifle. They had to cut a ton of stuff to fit FBS football in there.

 

It's more about the number of participants than number of teams, isn't it? Which is why you may see only, say, six men's sports and 10 women's sports, since football rosters are so large.

 

Yes, to comply with Title IX. But there isn't a rule to have eight men's teams and eight women's teams. It's just a flat 16, so like you said, it's usually a split like that in terms of numbers of teams. And I looked at my school, Colorado State, and only 14 sports are listed (five men, nine women) but indoor track and outdoor track are considered two different sports, I believe. It shows how close schools toe the line on this type of stuff. When they instituted the 16 rule CSU had to add a team if memory serves, so it did women's water polo and used swimmers it already had to save costs. Eventually dropped that and did women's soccer.

I know this is part of this whole conversation, but it would be interesting to see how COVID ends up impacting all these regulations and overall how ADs are run.

 

Nothing scares a good platoon sergeant like a 2nd Lt. with a map and compass. That's *good* training.

Edit: A 2Lt who says something like "I have an idea..." scares the Sgt. more than that.

 

You know what really scares a good platoon sergeant?

An ordinance disposal specialist running at high speed.

 

The light bulbs over their heads are beginning to light up.