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BREAKING: Bowling Green has eliminated baseball effective immediately.
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This is sad but not surprising. I would expect similar programs to follow suit.
adbono,
you make some very good points. Title IX will have some impacts.
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"in retaliation, Baseball Green cut bowling, effective immediately."
Oh wow! I think some of my son's baseball friends were looking at Furman.
A local kid is a 2020 commit to Furman. He was just told that Furman has eliminated their baseball program.
Didn’t see posts above. Sorry
Chicago State also on the block, Board of Regents is voting today
I know budgets are tight, but I'm failing to see the economics here. I read that BG said that they will save $500,000 per year by cutting baseball. Lets say they lose 20 kids who were paying an average of $20,000 per year to attend (per Google). So they lose $400,000 top line. Net savings of $100,000. Maybe they can fill the extra 20 slots? Perhaps, but they were already accepting 73% of applicants...think most people who wanted to go there are already there.
Unfortunately my take is that the administrators will cut every expense they can to ensure that the minimum number of administrators are cut.
@adbono posted:A local kid is a 2020 commit to Furman. He was just told that Furman has eliminated their baseball program.
Ugh. That is heartbreaking.
Only men's sports cut at Furman. Hmmm. $ 700 million endowment, could not keep baseball.
@RossGA posted:Only men's sports cut at Furman. Hmmm. $ 700 million endowment, could not keep baseball.
Expensive liberal arts colleges that did not make their enrollment numbers in this pandemic environment are going to have to make some hard financial decisions. Furman was one of these:
https://www.nacacnet.org/collegeopenings
Perhaps they will need that endowment just to survive the next year or two. I suspect others on this list (over 600, up 200 from last year) will be engaging in similar cost cutting over the summer.
@chazball posted:Chicago State also on the block, Board of Regents is voting today
Absolute cellar dweller in the WAC....wouldn't surprise me in the least.
Nor I, but I point this out only to say that there will likely be a number more. Cellar dwellers won't be the only casualties here.
@LuckyCat posted:Expensive liberal arts colleges that did not make their enrollment numbers in this pandemic environment are going to have to make some hard financial decisions. Furman was one of these:
https://www.nacacnet.org/collegeopenings
Perhaps they will need that endowment just to survive the next year or two. I suspect others on this list (over 600, up 200 from last year) will be engaging in similar cost cutting over the summer.
This site you linked to is very interesting. Thank you. I think the data on this site is 2019 still but if I am reading correctly there were 770 colleges/universities that didn't meet their enrollment numbers last year and as you point out Furman was one. Do you think this is 2020 data?
@chazball posted:Chicago State also on the block, Board of Regents is voting today
Dropping baseball would drop them below the 6 male sports requirement for D1 status. They'd have to drop down to either D2 or D3. That is going to create a problem with the other athletes at the school and justifiably so.
@Gunner Mack Jr. posted:This site you linked to is very interesting. Thank you. I think the data on this site is 2019 still but if I am reading correctly there were 770 colleges/universities that didn't meet their enrollment numbers last year and as you point out Furman was one. Do you think this is 2020 data?
According to this article, it's 2020 data:
https://www.insidehighered.com...-colleges-have-space
Also, the numbers will keep changing as more schools report, and some fill their class. Some moved their deadline for making a deposit to June 1, so this may not be all the colleges that didn't initially make their enrollment target for the coming year.