Stanford cutting 11 varsity sports

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Only the tip of the iceberg in college athletics...it’s unreal that schools with such prestige and finances are heavily impacted. How does bloated Rutgers keep plugging along???

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Only the tip of the iceberg in college athletics...it’s unreal that schools with such prestige and finances are heavily impacted. How does bloated Rutgers keep plugging along???

Your tax dollars.

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Aside from wrestling and field hockey which of those "sports" was actually a loss for the school?

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Aside from wrestling and field hockey which of those "sports" was actually a loss for the school?

Gotta feel bad for that NJ native wrestler, total ***. At least he’ll have free reign to go where he wants but hard to replace a Stanford education.

On the flip side, you can only imagine how much “additional” revenue the athletic department lost from the college admissions scandal not allowing “parental donations” for fictitious scholarships.

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Only the tip of the iceberg in college athletics...it’s unreal that schools with such prestige and finances are heavily impacted. How does bloated Rutgers keep plugging along???

Restart this thread once LAX and Soccer are disbanded.

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They reported this will save the school $200 million. If those sports cost $200 million then something is really wrong. Also, I doubt any of those kids will be leaving Stanford to play any sport. You don't go to Stanford to be a professional athlete.

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Only the tip of the iceberg in college athletics...it’s unreal that schools with such prestige and finances are heavily impacted. How does bloated Rutgers keep plugging along???

I went to RU, played a (non-revenue) sport there and interned in the athletic department for a bit.

Based on many articles I read over the years, the senior RU people allow the athletic department to unilaterally charge a special extra fee to students to help subsidize the athletic department.

I don't think the students have any say in this.

IMO, this is a BS way of forcing all students to subsidize a more-unprofitable-than-most athletic department while giving the senior RU people some deniability when they pretend that tuition doesn't subsidize athletics.

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They reported this will save the school $200 million. If those sports cost $200 million then something is really wrong. Also, I doubt any of those kids will be leaving Stanford to play any sport. You don't go to Stanford to be a professional athlete.

And yet many people have. Strange.

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And yet many people have. Strange.

Have you looked at the graduation statistics of those who became professional athletes vs. going on in their lives? That to me is strange you make that comment. If you look at the sports that were eliminated the vast majority used there sport to get into Stanford and some quit the sport after 1-2 years to concentrate on their studies or played all four years and used that degree to start a new life as a Stanford Alum. Pretty good!

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And yet many people have. Strange.

Their is a difference between those that have gone on to become professionals and those that went to Stanford to become professional athletes. I'm sure people like Andrew Luck didn't think by going to Stanford they would almost certainly quarantine themselves an NFL 1st round pick. Maybe aside from women's soccer what other sport at Stanford even has consistent feed to professional sports.

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None. People that become pro athletes are a tiny tiny fraction of folks and those that do it from Stanford are more freakishly rare.
Students go to Stanford for the education.

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None. People that become pro athletes are a tiny tiny fraction of folks and those that do it from Stanford are more freakishly rare.
Students go to Stanford for the education.

Stanford Athletes have a higher graduation rate than non-athletes. Athletics is not just for sports. I also think other athletes for other top universities have a higher graduation rate. That could be due to other factors:
- academic and life coaching available to athletes
- sense of commitment and purpose

Even when you get education with sports on a side the kids are well aware they are doing it for education and not just to become a pro.

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None. People that become pro athletes are a tiny tiny fraction of folks and those that do it from Stanford are more freakishly rare.
Students go to Stanford for the education.

Dont get your thinking at all. ALL pro athletes are freakishly rare and ill bet you that the percentage at Stanford is up there with the best especially if you factor in how many pros they have from a wide variety of sports.

The vast majority of students go to school for education only. Thats obvious and its not limited to Stanford is it. Your logic is flawed. Of the athletes that have real pro aspirations, a school like Stanford does as good a job as any school in helping that realize that dream.

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Dont get your thinking at all. ALL pro athletes are freakishly rare and ill bet you that the percentage at Stanford is up there with the best especially if you factor in how many pros they have from a wide variety of sports.

The vast majority of students go to school for education only. Thats obvious and its not limited to Stanford is it. Your logic is flawed. Of the athletes that have real pro aspirations, a school like Stanford does as good a job as any school in helping that realize that dream.

Don't disagree at all. But so what really. Just not relevant to anyone. Don't think the one player every 10 years from NY with pro career potential is wasting any time on TS.

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From NJ. One from NY, one from NJ. Every decade. They are not reading this.