The Tribune had an AP story today on the
possible fallout of COVID-19 on college sports.
Should athletic department budgets shrink, certain sports could be
cut. What a surprise.
And then there was the idea
floated by former Big 12 Commissioner Dan Beebe to divide athletics into
money-making “spectator sports” and “participation sports,” only one of which
would get scholarship money. Now, what
sports do you think would qualify? From
what I can see, by “participation” Beebe basically means “intramural.”
I have a better idea—let’s divide
college sports into “major violators” and “minor violators.” Penalties would be imposed for breaking NCAA regulations;
school- and team-conduct rules; and that thing we call the law. Just for fun, contact the analytics’ crowd to
come up with a scholarship formula that rewards good behavior and punishes bad.
Softball and baseball and, yes,
tennis and golf might finally get a decent number of scholarships. How ’bout it, guys?
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