such an insulting comment about those sports? Athletes training and competing in the sports you've just degraded would like a word with you. As long as I've hung around and posted on TSL, I don't recall ever being brought to such a loss for words. You don't post very often, so try to do less.

This is not a vote for mediocrity. There is no gurantee that elimating cross country, golf, volleyball, soccer, etc will produce better football, basketball, etc. Coaching can produce better football. soccer is 2 years away from playing in the NCAA semi-finals cross country has been good or had good players. Or at least track and field has in general. lax is capable of having good seasons. They don't have to win the ACC to be worth it. That is the larger point. Teams don't have to win the ACC or a championship to bring value to the university. And for every average team, there is a Queen Harrison, a baseball pitcher or batter that makes the pros, etc... The mission of the athletic component of the university remains the same even if part of the equation is mercenary/business-like.

Can I vote to eliminate football? It's embarrassing that my school, with all the available knowledge, chooses to continue to be a CTE factory.

like few other things have. It helps build young kids into men and teaches them lessons that are hard to come by in any other way. It is dangerous but the game has advanced to minimize the risks as much as possible. I coach on the high school level and truly see the positive impacts football has on kids lives.

But now I can just see all the untold evils it occasionally unleashes decades later. It's simply not worth it for a game. I'm glad you can see the positives in what you're doing and I surely hope that you do find positive impacts in the lives of those kids, but I couldn't morally do it myself.

changed. I believe the good the sport brings far exceeds the bad.

..."Let Franklin cook!:) Some Olympic sports don't even have many full scholarships; some partial and maybe "book money." That's what my son's travel soccer team was told by a GA speaking to them. Of course, there is a budget line for salaries, equipment, training, uniforms, travel, etc. VT has hitched its athletic wagon to the promise and commitment of CJF and staff to raise the tide. Therefore, my response is watch the next 5 years before taking penny ante funds from many lesser sports, especially with Title IX requirements.

I believe, you have to have equal amount of teams in both men’s and women’s scholarship sports.

make enough money to fund women's sports and scholarships just to make things "fair". Who came up with that? (Don't bother, I know who came up with that, idiots in Washington)

a bad thing. So, it is not driven by idiotic thinking in Washington. ** Edited by VAHokie89 at 4/6/2026, 5:45:30 PM

your right.

treatment by taking from those who earn to give to those who did not earn. So I am not sure you know what you are saying. Are you for redistribution or not?

What you are describing goes to make wrestling, make soccer, male baseball, male track and field. as well as other male sports.... do you mind that? I guess you also don't want your taxes to pay for roads and services for underdeveloped regions of your state or your country? I know exactly what I am saying. This iis what title IX says "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance." So yes, I know exactly what I am saying when I said title IX prohibits discrimination based on gender/sex.

obviously one of those in Washington.

Necessary to get rid of the same male & female sports basically (ie both swimming or both golf or both tennis teams). Soccer isn’t going to go anywhere. Lacrosse can’t because we only have women’s….UNLESS we add women’s flag football (a 2028 Olympic sport) which will soon be NCAA Sponsored, but then you’re not cutting anything you’re just replacing.

As far as college athletics goes, Title IX applies to the proportional number of male/female athletes IN THE AGGREGATE with no regard to individual teams or their likenesses to each other. As such, hypothetically if the math worked out correctly, you could eliminate men’s basketball and men’s soccer with the women’s offset being lacrosse if the two men’s teams combined to be just about (or slightly greater than) the same number of athletes as women’s lacrosse. As a university with slightly more men than women, I believe that the proportion of target athletes is to match that m/f ratio rather than being held to a 50/50 standard. Basketball for basketball, soccer for soccer, and even baseball for softball are common add (or drop) pairings, but there is no requirement to match with “like” sports. I sincerely hope that it never comes down to dropping any sport programs, as they all add to the overall student experience. I would love to see more students in the softball stands. In this era of big money sports paying out a growing percentage of total athletic dollars, non-revenue sports that don’t touch the student body in meaningful ways become ripe for any reduction discussions regardless of the program success or community support.

lifetime.

Let Franklin cook for 5 years.