University of Cincinnati just announced they were dropping their Division I men’s soccer team. The team has been a UC staple since 1973.
I think a lot of Universities and Colleges are going to be cutting sports programs to keep their budgets intact.
The Coronavirus coupled with reduced enrollments are going to really impact schools over the next decade.
The loss of the NCAA tournament will greatly reduce revenue sharing with D1 schools.
Part of the money drain is the (unconstitutional) Title IX requirement that colleges do their best to screw up their sports programs--eliminating men's teams and replacing them with women's teams no one will pay to watch--especially not women.
And colleges got over-priced and over-extended, thinking they could cut real scholarship in favor of selling Communism by the drink, and no one would catch on.
Johns Hopkins is to lacrosse what Notre Dame is to football. Lacrosse is the only Division I sport at JHU; so far as I know, all their other teams play in Division III. JHU is a perennial power in the sport, but as other schools have teams and pour money into them (Ohio State plays their games in the Horseshoe), JHU’s dominance is a thing of the past. The Lacrosse Hall of Fame is located in a building at one end of Homewood Field, JHU’s lacrosse stadium, in the northern part of Baltimore.
I lived in Maryland for 30 years, and lacrosse, both men’s and women’s, is probably the most popular scholastic sport in the state.
Bill Belichick grew up in Annapolis and was on the Annapolis High School lacrosse team; he went to college at Wesleyan in Middletown, Connecticut, which is a lacrosse-playing school.