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Post by raiderrunt on Dec 26, 2021 15:24:47 GMT -5
I like the Big D plan to add non-scholarship sports. I am not sure you can get enough revenue from the football players to cover the costs. With the equipment costs, salaries and other associated costs it seems that it would be costly. I am just speculating; I could be all wrong. I have a friend that works in the athletic department at Morehead State (he interned at WSU), I am going to touch base with him and see what he can tell me.
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Post by hittmanraider on Dec 26, 2021 16:26:06 GMT -5
If the goal is to same money/cut costs then football does not help with that. There is a better chance of Coach K taking over the mens program and us moving to the big east than there is wsu to have football.
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Post by Retired Coach on Dec 26, 2021 16:39:21 GMT -5
If the goal is to same money/cut costs then football does not help with that. There is a better chance of Coach K taking over the mens program and us moving to the big east than there is wsu to have football. You obviously haven't done any research. Non-scholarship football makes money for schools and should be considered. Scholarship football doesn't unless you are a P5 school. |
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Post by Big D on Dec 26, 2021 17:04:16 GMT -5
If the goal is to same money/cut costs then football does not help with that. There is a better chance of Coach K taking over the mens program and us moving to the big east than there is wsu to have football. If you took the time to read the recommendations of the firm we hired to make recommendations for our athletic department's future, one of their biggest recommendations was to find ways for athletics to help the university to increase enrollment. Cutting costs wasn't an emphasis. It was about increasing revenue, increasing donor money, and increasing enrollment through sports. Non-scholarship sports is one of the easiest ways to achieve that. Football might never be realistic but it is an option that should be looked at. I think non-scholarship men's and women's lacrosse are the easier sports to add. We already have sufficient facilities and lacrosse is played in the spring so there won't be any conflicts with soccer for the use of those facilities. |
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Post by Big D on Mar 18, 2022 22:18:15 GMT -5
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Post by Dr J on Mar 24, 2022 15:49:08 GMT -5
Does anyone know what is happening regarding this issue?
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Post by wsuraider09 on Mar 24, 2022 18:01:39 GMT -5
I have no insight, but as we stand at 5 for men and 5 for women we need to have 14 either in 7 & 7 or 8 women & 6 men.
Having said that, I think the easiest to add back is probably women's golf (low cost of equipment and facilities). Also adding back both tennis teams is easy. Facilities are there, equipment is cheap.
If we did that, I believe we'd still need one more sport. Softball could probably return fairly easily...the stadium is nice, but equipment and field maintenance is a premium compared to tennis and golf.
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Post by Big D on Mar 24, 2022 18:41:32 GMT -5
I have no insight, but as we stand at 5 for men and 5 for women we need to have 14 either in 7 & 7 or 8 women & 6 men. Having said that, I think the easiest to add back is probably women's golf (low cost of equipment and facilities). Also adding back both tennis teams is easy. Facilities are there, equipment is cheap. If we did that, I believe we'd still need one more sport. Softball could probably return fairly easily...the stadium is nice, but equipment and field maintenance is a premium compared to tennis and golf. We only need to add 3 sports: 1 mens and 2 womens. |
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Post by wsuraider09 on Mar 25, 2022 7:36:02 GMT -5
I have no insight, but as we stand at 5 for men and 5 for women we need to have 14 either in 7 & 7 or 8 women & 6 men. Having said that, I think the easiest to add back is probably women's golf (low cost of equipment and facilities). Also adding back both tennis teams is easy. Facilities are there, equipment is cheap. If we did that, I believe we'd still need one more sport. Softball could probably return fairly easily...the stadium is nice, but equipment and field maintenance is a premium compared to tennis and golf. We only need to add 3 sports: 1 mens and 2 womens. Our athletics website only lists 10 sports, but fails to differentiate indoor T&F season from outdoor T&F season which counts as two NCAA sports. So adding back both tennis teams is probably the easiest first play. We can kill two birds with one coaching stone, and equipment and upkeep is reasonably low. From there, the obvious choices are either women's golf or softball, not that the obvious choice always prevails. |
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Post by Big D on Mar 25, 2022 9:52:13 GMT -5
Our athletics website only lists 10 sports, but fails to differentiate indoor T&F season from outdoor T&F season which counts as two NCAA sports. So adding back both tennis teams is probably the easiest first play. We can kill two birds with one coaching stone, and equipment and upkeep is reasonably low. From there, the obvious choices are either women's golf or softball, not that the obvious choice always prevails. I don’t know why you even went to the Athletic Department website. It’s been stated over and over again in this thread that we eliminated 3 sports and we had to bring back 3 sports. Your obvious choices don’t necessarily make sense either. If you read any of the recommendation from the firm we hired, they are encouraging the university to use the athletic department to help increase school enrollment. If the university buys into that and increases our athletic department budget we should be looking at bigger sports that have large rosters and give out a limited number of scholarships like lacrosse, field hockey, softball, or swimming and diving. If we are going small and only worrying about the budget then mens tennis, mens volleyball, womens tennis, womens golf, and womens bowling are all inexpensive options. It all depends on how much our board of trustees wants to invest into athletics. |
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Post by Dr J on Mar 25, 2022 15:59:00 GMT -5
Thanks, Big D for adding my question to this topic. I looked but didn’t see this.
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Post by refrigeratorraider on Apr 4, 2022 10:11:58 GMT -5
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Post by ohiopirate on Apr 4, 2022 15:36:31 GMT -5
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Post by Sixth Man on Apr 4, 2022 18:54:58 GMT -5
It looks like we are going with the cheapest route to get us back to the D1 minimum. It's rather disappointing that Wright State wouldn't invest enough into athletics to add some sports that could have increased enrollment and fan/student turnout. Nothing against the 3 sports we added but no student is going to go see a track and field event off campus. No student is going to go see a bowling event off campus. I like we are adding some opportunities for some new student athletes but is disappointing the university leadership didn't really listen to the company they paid to make recommendations. I was really excited with the idea of adding a lacrosse team. Guess I'll have to keep on dreaming.
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Post by gerb on Apr 4, 2022 19:36:10 GMT -5
It looks like we are going with the cheapest route to get us back to the D1 minimum. It's rather disappointing that Wright State wouldn't invest enough into athletics to add some sports that could have increased enrollment and fan/student turnout. Nothing against the 3 sports we added but no student is going to go see a track and field event off campus. No student is going to go see a bowling event off campus. I like we are adding some opportunities for some new student athletes but is disappointing the university leadership didn't really listen to the company they paid to make recommendations. I was really excited with the idea of adding a lacrosse team. Guess I'll have to keep on dreaming. Budget. |
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