As of 8:10am this morning one of the finer programs in the country is lost due to "budgetary" problems.
No one saw it coming and they just recently signed some top level recruits that gave them one of the top 3 recruiting classes in the country.
My personal view on Title IX's impact in this decision is that while it did play a limited role in three men's sports being cut, it probably played a MUCH BIGGER role in saving women's swimming, both diving programs (they probably have the same coach so cutting the men probably wouldn't have saved much, if any money) and probably several other women's sports.
My guess is that it wasn't a choice of cutting men's or women's swimming, for example. I bet they would have cut both if they could have.
Which is such a huge shame given the pool-based culture of the state...
My personal view on Title IX's impact in this decision is that while it did play a limited role in three men's sports being cut, it probably played a MUCH BIGGER role in saving women's swimming, both diving programs (they probably have the same coach so cutting the men probably wouldn't have saved much, if any money) and probably several other women's sports.
My guess is that it wasn't a choice of cutting men's or women's swimming, for example. I bet they would have cut both if they could have.
Which is such a huge shame given the pool-based culture of the state...
