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The following is a list of the maximum number of scholarships by sport & gender for the sports that UofR currently fields teams -

Men's​
  • Baseball - 11.7
  • Basketball - 13
  • Cross Country - 12.6
  • Football - 63
  • Golf - 4.5
  • Lacrosse - 12.6
  • Tennis - 4.5
    • Total - 121.9
Women's​
  • Basketball - 15
  • Cross Country - 18
  • Field Hockey - 12
  • Golf - 6
  • Lacrosse - 12
  • Soccer - 14
  • Swimming & Diving - 14
  • Tennis - 8
  • Track & Field - 18
    • Total - 117
My questions are -
  • Do we know the actual levels of scholarships used currently against these maximums?
  • What are the reason(s) that we don't use the maximum level of scholarships for any given sport?
    • Is it just a funding issue? Or are there other constraints - i.e. Title IX ratio, etc.?
  • Where do the athletic scholarship monies come from? From the whole athletic department budget or some subset of that budget - i.e. Spider Club monies, endowment monies, etc.?
Thanks for your patience with my ignorance.
 
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my understanding, could be wrong, all revenues (from tickets, basketball sharing, etc.) go to the athletic dept and the school throws in annually millions from their overall budget. the only cash machine we have available, besides the school, is basketball, if they are making the dance and winning some games.
 
My questions are:
1) How many scholarships do we offer in each sport?
2) Considering the football exception, how many scholarships can we offer men and what is the formula that applies to women viz a viz the men's allotment?
3) What is the cost of fully funding an athletic scholarship at UR?

SF has answered all these questions from time to time over the last few years and probably has all the answers on his fingertips. SF, How about an update?
 
I don't have all of the answers.

1. On the men's side, football, basketball, and supposedly lax are fully funded. Somebody said baseball has like 8? XC is likely zero, and golf/tennis no more than one each...I can't remember.

For the women, I don't know exact numbers. They're obviously decently funded in order to get the numbers close to the men's. Basketball is fully funded. Swimming is not close to fully funded.

2. I don't know what you mean by football exception. The formula is simple...scholarships should be proportional to student body gender ratio.

3. Tuition, room, and board add up to $62,730 for next year. Course-related books can also be covered, so that could be close to another $1000. Basketball scholarships get an additional ~$1300 cost of attendance supplement.
 
SF - So based on Title IX gender ratio requirements, since the UofR female/male demographic ratio is 53%/47% (per the UofR website), then the maximum men's scholarships (ignoring funding) would be ~103.75 (47/53 * 117) instead of 121.9? Or ~18 scholarships under the NCAA max for the men's sports that we participate?

Additionally, if the women's sports scholarships are actually under their 117 maximum level (for whatever reason), then the men's scholarships would be further reduced by ~.89 (47/53) scholarship for every women's scholarship under their max?

Again, thanks for helping me with my understanding.
 
That would be correct.

We are in fact not in balance...we have more men's scholarships than women's scholarships, roughly 56/44 split in scholarship money in favor of men according to the data we submit to the Department of Education. So I do wonder if we are at risk of Title IX issues once again should somebody decide to complain.
 
we are too busy fighting title IX rape problems to worry about title IX scholies
 
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Your math is off. You get a total of 18 scholarships for women's track/CC, not 18 apiece.

However, you may count the same athlete who competes in CC, indoor and outdoor track as three athletes when compiling Title IX proportionality numbers.

We are not in danger of being out of Title IX compliance as long as the programs have equal access to facilities, etc., and as long as we are filling the "demonstrable need" of the under-represented gender. There is also a 5% "fudge factor;" ie if your enrollment numbers are 48 percent men and 52 percent women and your expenditures are 53-47 toward the men you are considered OK.

I'd like to see us dump synchronized swimming, a sport nobody does, and start a volleyball program. With some imagination, Millheiser could be an awesome 500-seat volleyball venue, which would be all you need. And 10 A-10 schools already sponsor the sport.
 
Yes, it's been a club sport since 2001...no funding from the athletic department. Funding comes from dues and the pool (pun intended) of general club sport funding.

http://recreation.richmond.edu/clubs/active/synchronized-swimming.html
http://synchronizedswimming.richmond.edu

Synchro was always tiny on the varsity level, but it's shrunk even more in recent years. Believe Stanford, Ohio State, and Incarnate Word are the only D-I programs with varsity synchro, and Wheaton in D-III has a team.

It's not an NCAA sport, and the national collegiate championships are sponsored by USA Synchro and include a mix of varsity and club teams.
 
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Felt we had a good thread going until it was hijacked. Took all posts about other schools down, as they aren't adding anything to this good conversation.
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Ok I see where you are coming from. My lengthy response today was a response to a fellow Spider's post.
I see my participation in SpiderNation is no longer welcome. Why don"t you just make it easy and put me on permanant banned?
 
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