UC just cut men’s soccer program. Cited “profound challenges and widespread uncertainty”

It wasn't a very good program and I think UC wanted to cut it for awhile. COVID-19 was probably the final straw.

Well watch out OHIO has several that’s not very good. And a big deficit.

Aren't colleges required to have a minimum of 6 men's and 8 women's
teams to be D1 ?

We're at 6 men's and 9 women's teams.

Not a lot of room to cut,and stay D!.

From an article I just read by Yahoo Sports:

A letter to NCAA president Mark Emmert from the Group of Five commissioners obtained by Yahoo Sports on Tuesday offers searing insight into both the financial constraints felt at that level and the potential for a landscape that could look much different when sports do return to campus. The fallout being discussed by those commissioners includes the potential elimination of postseason conference tournaments and shortened seasons in non-revenue sports.

The letter from the commissioners of the AAC, Mountain West, MAC, Sun Belt and Conference USA asked for alterations of NCAA bylaws in the wake of COVID-19 in order to save money. The letter asks for “temporary relief from several regulatory requirements for a period of up to four years” in order to provide “short-term relief.” The letter hopes that this relief will provide “opportunity for institutions to retrench and rebuild the financial structures of the institution.”

The requirements the conference commissioners asked for relief from hint at the fiscal peril of schools and leagues outside college athletics’ so-called Power Five. The most relevant among them is relief from the minimum number of “Sports Sponsorships,” as every FBS school is required to have a “minimum number of 16 varsity intercollegiate sports.”

"Potential elimination of postseason tournaments in non revenue sports." I am in the minority, but would like to see the MAC adapt this in all sports, with an exception. The top two schools after the regular season meet in a one game playoff. Something similar to what football does now. This way, the regular season is MUCH more important than what it currently is. They could rotate games between the east and west sites. It will never happen, but it makes each game count a little more in the regular season. The IVY League finally caved and now has four teams in the conference tourney, which is better than what the MAC does. At least the IVY League doesn't reward a team that is seeded 6, 7 or worse for not playing well in the regular season. Just my 2 cents.

Yesterday,the commissioners of the remaining 22 D1 conferences, joined with the
commissioners of the G-5 conferences, and asked the NCAA to "temporarily" reduce the required number of D1 teams a school must have to be a D1 program.

That pretty much assures an O.K. from the NCAA.

As I posted,this could be the death knell for a number of non-revenue D1 programs.

The only possible positive,is that, with fewer D1 teams required to stay D1,schools could look into going to D II or even D III for some of those sports.

If the NCAA changes the rules for the number of D1 teams you have to have to be a D1,program,I would think they'd be willing to look at options to keep schools from completely dropping non-revenue sports programs.
This could include allowing DII or DIII during the proposed 4 year period for the "temporary" reduction in the required number of D1 teams.

As I posted,most people feel,"temporary" is going be permanent.

going to display my neandrathall tendancies, but title IX strikes me as asinine, especially for football revenue schools.

i think the net cost of the football program should be the key metric for title IX, not the cost-only (scholarship cost?) basis (or something similar) that it's based on now.

NCAA has already stated that the minimum requirements are still in place.

You may want to take that up with the courts. Maybe you can make a solid case of reverse discrimination and bring down Title IX, may even be a book and TV deal in it that describes your plight against this gross discrimination.

I hope so!! Not sure why they have delayed the release of the agreement for so long.