Impact on college sports

[injuryBug]

Cincinnati has dropped soccer.  Wonder if this will get conferences to realign the some conferences for for the non profit sports.  Makes a lot more sense to have Cincy in a conference with Kentucky or Dayton than UCF for a  sport like soccer

[JWags85]

Cincinnati has dropped soccer.  Wonder if this will get conferences to realign the some conferences for for the non profit sports.  Makes a lot more sense to have Cincy in a conference with Kentucky or Dayton than UCF for a  sport like soccer

Nope. Only sports like hockey or lacrosse that are borderline revenue sports and also don't have the number of teams for traditional conferences.

Soccer just has a few assorted programs like South Carolina and UK that play in other conferences cause the SEC doesn't offer soccer. Same with WVU in the MAC cause the B12 has no other soccer playing universities and their program is a leftover from the BE days

[The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole]

Nope. Only sports like hockey or lacrosse that are borderline revenue sports and also don't have the number of teams for traditional conferences.

Soccer just has a few assorted programs like South Carolina and UK that play in other conferences cause the SEC doesn't offer soccer. Same with WVU in the MAC cause the B12 has no other soccer playing universities and their program is a leftover from the BE days

Don't be too sure.

https://sports.yahoo.com/with-budgets-tightening-will-more-college-sports-be-cut-204423901.html

"One issue being heavily discussed, especially on the Eastern seaboard, is scheduling alliances to save travel costs for non-revenue sports. Using Old Dominion as an example, it makes little sense for its baseball team to travel in Conference USA league games to play at Rice (in Houston), FIU (in South Florida) and Louisiana Tech (in Ruston). Why not James Madison, Richmond and Georgetown? They are all in different leagues, but it would make much more sense.

The same could be said for schools in the Northeast, as it makes more sense for Boston College, Rhode Island, Holy Cross and UConn to play each other in non-revenue sports than many of their far-flung geographic league peers. "You would have to get to a place where people put a lot of ego aside," said another AD in the Group of Five. "Sports is driven more by ego than common sense."

One athletic director in a non-football league said of scheduling more geographically friendly games instead of league schedules: "We are having those discussions." He said limiting costs on conference road trips in non-revenue sports would save his athletic department hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. In leagues outside the Power Five, that money matters."