Pitt should spend money on the volleyball coach and recruiting. It already spent a ton on the arena. I am simply saying that we cannot afford to spend a penny from the $20 million salary cap on non-revenue athletes. ADAG and Fisher need to find a donor to pay those salaries. If they can, great, make them all rich. But Pitt shouldn't be paying for a money-losing sport.
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Pitt should spend money on the volleyball coach and recruiting. It already spent a ton on the arena. I am simply saying that we cannot afford to spend a penny from the $20 million salary cap on non-revenue athletes. ADAG and Fisher need to find a donor to pay those salaries. If they can, great, make them all rich. But Pitt shouldn't be paying for a money-losing sport.
Football and Men's Basketball are indeed cash cows. Even at Pitt.
And yes, every other program should be D3 and I think soon the NCAA will allow schools to classify Olympic sports in D3. As schools spend more and more on the 2 pro sports, there will be a push to eliminate the non-revene sports. For Title IX purposes, they'd have to keep a few Olympic sports but most should be D3. It is completely non-sensical for Pitt baseball and softball to fly to Florida and California instead of playing CMU, W&J, LaRoche, etc.
Keeping those sports but relegating them to D3 status would completely violate Title IX. So there is that.
I mean schools like Pitt should keep football, men's basketball and then enough women's sports to comply with Title IX. So like 4 women's sports? So baseball, track, etc should be D3
There aren't four women's sports that Pitt has that combined would balance the numbers. If Pitt kept track as a D1 sport they might be able to pull it off with five. Especially since two of the however many would clearly be volleyball and basketball, and those will only combine for 33 potential roster spots.
There's that pesky rule that you need a minimum number of D1 sports to be a D1 school for any sport. Hey, we all think you should read a book on economics or finance or something but much like what you think about "how things should work", it ain't going to happn.
Please explain how Pitt is spending $138 million on D1 sports then? We all know that football and/or basketball aren't generating anywhere near that much. Football alone spends more than what the ACC revenue share brings in.
That will be going away soon as the P4 gains more autonomy. The P4 understand they are now in the pro sports business and gymnastics and swimming are unnecessary expenses. They can be D3 and play local schools.
You do understand that there are some very good D1 basketball schools that don't belong to the P4 and don't have football, right?
It's going to be interesting to see what happens to those schools. I'm not sure what that has to do with the P4's dropping sports to D3 though. Maybe they will, maybe they won't but the NCAA rule is meaningless. The NCAA will do what they say. I mean even you admit it's insane that Pitt Olympic sports flies to Florida and California for conference games instead of playing WVU, MD, OSU, PSU, etc for conference games.
Yeah, that's what I said after explaining why they won't drop to D3. Way to cherry pick.
Hey, did you know that the spring volleyball scrimmage will be on TV tomorrow night? HAHAHAHA
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