on June 9, 2025, 13:29:14, in reply to "as I've said, my daughter is a 2026 committed to a summit league school for soccer. She was offered"
Let's use NIU vs. Loyola (an A-10 school) as an example.
NIU obviously won't budget anywhere close to $20.5 million for football and basketball, but let's say the Huskies try to budget $3 million for NIL. Where's that coming from? Are they going to increase their TV money with their move from the MAC to Mountain West to cover that? Probably not.
So they're going to have to scrape dollars from their non-revenue sports' budgets to make up the difference.
Loyola, on the other hand, only needs to decide how much it wants to spend on men's hoops. Let's say it's $1.5 million.
As a top 8 basketball conference with some big markets (Chi, St. L, Pitt, Boston, Philly, New York, DC), it has decent TV deals with CBS, ESPN and NBC.
They're going to have to swipe less money -- if any -- from its non-revenue sports in order to compete.
At least...this is my understanding. 
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and accepted a full ride. In the recruiting process, an A10 school was pushing hard for her to commit there. That coach was of the very definite opinion that the mid majors that had had football would be cutting their Olympic programs. now, easy to say for him since they had no football. but it makes sense. if you are someplace without football, there will not be the financial drain of putting everything back into football. On the other hand, if there is no football, what is your revenue to split? I'm not sure I still understand it. Previous Message
Nobody really knows how it's going to play out, but the conversation is about some of the smaller women's squads are really going to be hurting.
My daughter was getting some looks for pole vault, and while she's not at recruit standards for most of the D1 schools she's interested in, she's been getting "come try out/maybe walkon" notes. Most of that seems to be drying up (although she's still getting recruited by D2/3, it's also slowed down). I'm curious if that changes over the next couple months. None of the coaches were sure, with some even cutting their rosters down before this past season.
Unless you're a multi-event athlete, you aren't very attractive to them. Previous Message
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- osklister June 9, 2025, 14:03:24