Ot: California- Berkley Cutting Baseball To Save $$$&#0

[MeanGreen61]

UC Berkeley will eliminate its baseball, men's and women's gymnastics and women's lacrosse teams after this year and will stop fully funding the national-champion men's rugby team.

The move, announced today, is part of the school's attempt to trim a nearly $13 million athletics-department deficit. The cuts will save $4 million in 2011-12, the school said.

The decision will affect 163 athletes, and 13 coaches will lose their jobs. University leaders hope to lower the department deficit to $5 million by 2014, a number Chancellor Robert Birgeneau has called acceptable

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Edited September 28, 2010 by MeanGreen61

[Censored by Laurie]

So they're preemptively passing us by?

[TheTastyGreek]

Baseball: NOT A NET REVENUE GENERATING SPORT

I still want a team here someday, but it doesn't pay for itself.

[KoldBeer]

Baseball: NOT A NET REVENUE GENERATING SPORT

I still want a team here someday, but it doesn't pay for itself.

Also it wasn't required for Pac-10 membership. The Pac-10 requires more sports than most conferences. They also dropped rugby down to club level even though it was a break even sport. They cut 2X the amount of men's scholarships (compared to women's) to help with Title IX.

I'd like to see UNT get a baseball team but I don't know how they get funding for one. They'd need some big private donations, I think, to get one going.

[cwb]

Now how much could gymnastics cost? All you need is a saw horse and a couple of chin up bars.

And it's not like you have to feed them.

[The Fake Lonnie Finch]

It's no surprise. Less than 20 universities have money-making athletic departments.

[NorthTexan95]

Now how much could gymnastics cost? All you need is a saw horse and a couple of chin up bars.

And it's not like you have to feed them.

There's a high rate of injury for gymnastics, I believe. I bet cost for insurance is high. The biggest savings might be the coaching salary and travel costs.

[Cerebus]

Now how much could gymnastics cost? All you need is a saw horse and a couple of chin up bars.

And it's not like you have to feed them.

Everyone has to travel. Thats the killer.

[cwb]

Everyone has to travel. Thats the killer.

Each coach puts one gymnast in his/her lap. Or stuff them in their luggage. Duh.

[Army of Dad]

Baseball: NOT A NET REVENUE GENERATING SPORT

I still want a team here someday, but it doesn't pay for itself.

Almost no sport pays for itself. The usual exceptions are football and Men's basketball, though some schools can make money in other sports.

[Rudy]

Each coach puts one gymnast in his/her lap. Or stuff them in their luggage. Duh.

College female gymnasts are not as petite as olympic female gymasts, and Im pretty sure that the coaches don't want the male gymnasts in their laps. Im just sayin...