Covid forces cuts at Boise State

[MikeH92467]

Covid has claimed more victims at Boise State University. The school has terminated its baseball program (which they had only revived this year after a multi-year absence) along with swimming and diving. The BSU program is hugely dependant on it's football team for funding. With all that's going on the athletic department projects a multimillion dollar shortfall. They're not the first university to swing the axe at their athletics program and I'm sure they won't be the last.

 

[1001001]

I've been wondering about the individual student athletes on scholarships.

If you're going to college on, let's say, a baseball scholarship. Or swimming. What's happening to you? Are you still getting a free education? If the school is not generating athletic income, do those scholarships get cut? Are kids going to have to drop out?

 

[MikeH92467]

BSU says it will honor all scholarships. I don’t know if that’s the case everywhere else.

 

[Aragorn]

Stanford just cut 11 of their 36 programs -- men's and women's fencing, field hockey, lightweight rowing, men's rowing, co-ed and women's sailing, squash, synchronized swimming, men's volleyball and wrestling.

 

[MikeH92467]

Gotta figure if a big bucks outfit like Stanford is feeling a squeeze, a lot of others are too. Florida State is eliminating 25 positions in it's athletic department, either through layoffs or not filling vacant positions.