BCSUPERFAN22 {l Wrote}:MilitantEagle {l Wrote}:DrJackRyan {l Wrote}:eepstein0 {l Wrote}:claver2010 {l Wrote}:men's tennis hasn't won an acc game in at least the last 4 years, an impressive 0-47 (acc's standings page doesn't go any further back than that)
I've seen BC play tennis before as I also played in college.
That sport should probably be the first one to cut. BC shouldn't be sponsoring sports that they're 0-47 in.
$180K is not going to make any kind of significant difference to the men's revenue sports.
That's what we spend on men's tennis.
http://college-sports.pointafter.com/l/6197/Boston-College-Tennis
To me, it's not about the money, but mental energy. We have limited resources in terms of people in and associated with the athletic department and we can't afford to devote any time and decision-making energy on these pointless sports.
Cut as many as possible outside of the major ones and Title IX requirements.
For one thing, you don't think having ~180k saved (if that # is true) from one sport to roll into something for football would help. That's the salary for multiple full time recruiting staff (or facility upgrades). If you save 180k per year from one sport and can redo the weight room, that's a plus. If you can redo locker rooms for BB or IH, that's a plus. It's also not about just cutting 1 sport, BC has to cut quite a few and that would have a material effect.
To the above point, wasn't it Hoff who said what a joke the athletics department was from a staff size perspective ? Again, it comes down to commitment. If BC is so hell bent on offerin so many sports because it fits with "Jesuit ideal" or whatever other excuse you want to use, that's fine, but commit. That means facilities (on campus or off campus arrangement), coaching staff, recruiting budget to get kids who can compete, etc. Its quite evident that stretching the athletic department so thin and trying to make it work on the cheap hasn't worked for a number of sports.
There's not enough members of the Athletic Department to support all these sports.