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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With Power5 colleges now having to pay out significantly higher amounts for football and basketball players, and Title IX requirements extending similar benefits to women’s players - do non-revenue sports like men’s soccer survive at the big sports schools?[/quote]

Fascinating question.  Seems entirely unclear to me at this point.  One thing I've heard is that if/when colleges were going to be forced to pay market-rate to college basketball/football players, that's when you'd suddently see a drop-off in college sports being so heavily promoted by the universities; the theory seems to be that once colleges were forced to let the players rake in the majority of the money from NCAA sports, they would lose the gravy train that they've had going for decades and would lose interest overall.

I have no idea how it will turn out.  The idea that the federal government is involved in babysitting adults in universities and influencing what ball games adults can/can't play at universities has always seemed insane to me. It results in whacky human behavior, like a surge in crazy "girls soccer" parents who are involved because they think it's their daughter's ticket to college.  "I'm from the government and I'm here to help" lol.

I guess time will tell.  I've long thought that all sports would be best-suited by a minor-league-to-major-league pathway, rather than this fantasy we have now of university "students" being the minor leagues.  These "student athletes" are just minor league ball players recruited to play sports and make money for the school, and everyone knows it.[/quote]

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