Men’s football and men’s basketball are the glamour American Collegiate sports.
What about the rest of the NCAA?
U.S. Olympic Committee CEO Scott Blackmun:
Next week, the NCAA men’s gymnastics championships will be held in Norman, Okla. Last week, the men’s swimming national championship was held in Iowa City. The week before that, the wrestling national championship was contested in St. Louis. All those sports have been impacted by changing times in college athletics – and the future is even more challenging. …
Since the early 1980s, … college men’s gymnastics programs have been cut by 75 percent. Wrestling has been cut by half. About 50 schools have dropped their men’s swimming programs. …
… men’s gymnastics isn’t the only one in trouble. Within the last few months, Chattanooga dropped its men’s track program and College of Charleston shut down its swimming programs – men’s and women’s. Bigger schools have gone before them – Washington, it’s worth noting, dropped men’s and women’s swimming when the school president was Mark Emmert, now the head of the NCAA. …
U.S. Olympic Committee ‘candidly concerned’ non-revenue college sports will be cut
(via Dave Durante)
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