Division II school cancels men's golf

Among other sports, men's golf cancelled at St. Edwards University. First one I have heard of so far.

St. Edward’s University discontinues six athletics programs in response to economic impacts of coronavirus - St. Edward's University Athletics

Cincinnati has canned mens soccer: University of Cincinnati discontinues men's soccer program, but will honor current scholarshipsI wonder if this is a catalyst for some schools to start offloading programs given how much they all cost.

Read a few articles this morning on non revenue generating college sports and it sounds like a lot of institutions have been mulling this for a few years now. Seems like they are all going to use COVID as the catalyst to start shuttering programs. Don't expect it to hit any of the big time programs but many of the smaller programs could vanish.

For the sake of accuracy (of the thread title), they also cancelled women’s golf.

Going to be such a shame. For starters, less golf programs makes it even harder to play college golf. I feel bad that many will miss out on just the aspect of college golf competition. I didn't play golf in college (it was football and I had zero chance of going pro), but the aspect of competition during those years was unforgettable. Perhaps various golf clubs at that level will fill the void?

My wife received an email from Alumni Association from Florida State. Said that without donations and possibly a delay to football season they may have to cancel some non revenue sports.

incredible

Any indication whether or not this would be temporary or permanent?

I would think for a sport like golf, alumni donations would help bridge the gap to save the golf programs at the larger, more established schools.

Smaller schools that are already struggling financially are probably more at risk.

Nope. I don't see how you could cancel their golf teams. They are too high profile and consistently ranked in the Top 20 in the country for men and women.

Track and Field is a HUGE non revenue sport and likely the 3rd most expensive sport on campus after Football and Baseball. Only difference is no one goes to track and field matches in college.

I would agree with that assessment. I could, however, see some D1 schools moving on from Golf if they just weren't that good. In the grand scheme of things canceling golf does nothing for a university in terms of saving money rather than canceling say Track. Track is highly expensive and when they travel there are a ton of kids they have to transport.

My sons school cancelled the men’s and women’s tennis team along with the men’s water polo team. His coach indicated there would be no more cuts.

sad times

University golf is the best !

I live near this school to be be fair it was a few programs total. Mea and Women's golf, tennis and cheer (which was turned into a rec program)

Looks like the student athletes at Brown are doing something about it.

Brown University athletes retain lawyer in hopes of reinstating golf, other cut sports

you are probability right. What a shame but it may be the reality. I feel bad for players that got their season cancelled. These guys are losing out on lifelong experience.

I don’t think you can say that a golf team is not expensive. They still require transportation and lodging. I would imagine they also have to pay for golf fees as well.

I can say whatever I want.

In the grand schemes of things, Golf is not as expensive as compared to the other sports. In one of these threads there is an athletic Budget report from LSU for the 2017 school year. I am not just going to randomly find it to prove I am right, when I know I am right. Women's Basketball costs more to operate than Men's and Women's Golf and Tennis combined. So yeah, in the grand scheme of things, it isn't as expensive as other sports.

Stanford drops 11 sports to cut costs during pandemicGolf survived the cut.

Stanford had a synchronized swimming team?

I found that humerous.I think Covid was an excuse to cut these sports. Have the feeling the admin wanted to get rid of some of them for quite some time.

Isn't Stanford the defending national champions? I wonder if that's what saved golf.

If I read the article correctly the sports they cut were Olympic sports and not official NCAA sports. Plus The Big Cat went to Stanford... you think he'd let them cut it?

Division 1 team cuts golf and closes course. Dartmouth the latest school to cut golf teams from athletic department

I was on the practice green with an assistant athletic director from Wake Forest this morning. We were talking about schools dropping sports. He was talking about how much money football generates for the total athletic budget, and said if football is cancelled, a lot of schools are going to be dropping a lot more sports.

The football industrial complex is stronger than the average person realizes. The money my hometown high school football team makes funds most of the extra-curriculars for the county's school system, for example.

Wake is much smaller than most Power 5 conference schools, so I'm not sure if it would hit them as hard as say, conference rivals Florida State and Clemson. Schools like UNC, Notre Dame and Miami maybe not quite as much for various reasons.

I would be pretty shocked to see the P5 schools not play football this year. Going to conference schedules only like the B1G is doing may be a template for compromise the P5 may emulate, but even that's a big sacrifice (yes, even for schools like Texas and Michigan with sports money to burn). This impacts TV ratings, local tourism take, sponsorship deals--goes beyond the scope of just the school.

talked to a top D1 recruit’s dad and they don’t think anyone is going to get to play next year.

A lot of the better players have a tough choice ahead and might be better off turning pro.

When my kid returns to school in early September, they have an event scheduled 4 days later.

Stanford essentially has their own big league golf course plus big donors who are golfers even without TW. They would lose a lot of other sports before Golf!

If the PGA can find a way to make it work then I'd tend to believe it could work for college kids. Difference is that the college incurs a lot of costs to play with no incoming revenue. I think it all comes down to football... no football no golf.

I was looking at the USC team (after hearing Zambri was leaving) and noticed they only have 7 boys on the roster. Could be that their incoming class hasn't been added but that seems light to me.

And speaking of USC... anyone hear what happened to their head coach? All articles just say it was a mutual decision but he was the longest tenured coach at the school, it is his alma mater and his son was going there next year. Very strange circumstances.