vcjack
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Post by vcjack on Nov 15, 2011 16:56:51 GMT -5
A special advisory board for Terp athletics has recommended that the university cut the following sports: - men's cross country, indoor and outdoor track - men's swimming and diving - men's tennis - women's acrobatics and tumbling - women's swimming and diving - women's water polo Any chance that we pick up the castaways? link: www.umd.edu/UMDnews/pres_message_111411.cfm |
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PhillyHoya
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Post by PhillyHoya on Nov 15, 2011 17:27:32 GMT -5
Depends if any of those athletes are getting scholarship money or not.
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Post by whipple on Nov 15, 2011 17:57:45 GMT -5
Tragic stuff and I hope GU watches what happens and tweaks any old plans. I would have been devastated but would not have transferred if my sport had been shut down like this. Dunno if Terps are as loyal as I was.
As for grabbing a few MDers, i agree that its tough to compete with any scholarship + state school tuition. Gotta love the proximity and waiver of the sit-out year though.
Btw, a UMD swimmer-buddy of mine points the finger at Under Armour as well as the school.
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Post by DFW HOYA on Nov 15, 2011 18:15:28 GMT -5
The Baltimore Sun reported today that a consultant's report in 2004 expressed doubt that Maryland could sell corporate suites for Tyser Tower (the $60M suite project for Byrd Stadium) with so many sports facilities in the area (FedEx Field, Nationals Park (then under construction), Verizon Center, M&T Bank Stadium, and Camden Yards). Debbie Yow gave the go-ahead anyway, and 30% of the suites have never been occupied.
The revenue from the suites is just meeting debt service, according to the Sun, and Maryland is projecting an $8.7 million deficit within two years. Cutting these smaller sports, of course, won't change those numbers.
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Nov 15, 2011 19:22:35 GMT -5
A special advisory board for Terp athletics has recommended that the university cut the following sports: - men's cross country, indoor and outdoor track - men's swimming and diving - men's tennis - women's acrobatics and tumbling - women's swimming and diving - women's water polo Any chance that we pick up the castaways? link: www.umd.edu/UMDnews/pres_message_111411.cfmWe already picked up Alex Lundy for XC, who still had eligibility at UMD. Usually, it is the Ivies that we pick up as grad students, because of their rules on redshirts. But it seems as if Alex could have come back to UMD and finished his college career there, but chose to come to GU (wisely). He had qualified as an individual for the NCAA XC meet in the past, but this year he helped the whole team qualify. Probably more like him will be coming, if UMD cuts these sports. Ironically, Andrew Valmon, who coached at GU, is the Olympic track and field coach for the 2012 Olympics, but may not have a job to go back to at UMD. |
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Post by skyhoya on Nov 17, 2011 13:20:23 GMT -5
It all falls from the lack of revenue from FB, the primary money maker, but I would think BB brings in some cash.
Perhaps they should have kept the Frig,
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Post by kchoya on Nov 17, 2011 13:23:26 GMT -5
It all falls from the lack of revenue from FB, the primary money maker, but I would think BB brings in some cash. Perhaps they should have kept the Frig, But paying the debt on the Comcast Center does not. |
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Post by skyhoya on Nov 17, 2011 13:25:51 GMT -5
cost of doinjg business in the ACC
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Post by JohnJacquesLayup on Nov 22, 2011 11:07:53 GMT -5
Fallout from lost revenue from replacing too many couches after losses.
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Nov 23, 2011 20:23:02 GMT -5
Cost of dry cleaning for the coaching staff?
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Post by MCIGuy on Nov 27, 2011 16:12:25 GMT -5
In my opinion this is the result of the growing football culture that is taking over America. Place more and more funds into football and then claim it is the only sport making a profit Then drop as many other sports as you can. Nonsense. Nothing else matters to these colleges and presidents and ADs other than football. Soon more and more schools will be taking the SEC approach: drop most of your sports and place almost all of your funding into the football programs. But why would universities want to follow the SEC's lead? After all the SEC comprises of the worst schools when it comes to the BCS conferences. I thought the main objective of an university was to educate, and SEC schools collectively do a worse job at that than the rest. But that conference is now the model for how to run athletics and deal with student athletes?
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Nov 27, 2011 17:01:25 GMT -5
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Post by TBird41 on Nov 28, 2011 11:41:49 GMT -5
I thought the main objective of an university was to educate, and SEC schools collectively do a worse job at that than the rest. But that conference is now the model for how to run athletics and deal with student athletes? Haha, since when? Education is one of the last priorities of Universities and has been for a long time |
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Post by MCIGuy on Nov 28, 2011 12:03:44 GMT -5
I thought the main objective of an university was to educate, and SEC schools collectively do a worse job at that than the rest. But that conference is now the model for how to run athletics and deal with student athletes? Haha, since when? Education is one of the last priorities of Universities and has been for a long time That's why they are in business in the first place. That's why students attend them. And that's why those degrees that most students come away with are worth something to businesses looking to hire new employees. You are that cynical to think education is one of the last priorities of a university? Okay. |
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