Since we were discussing in the “Iowa cuts four sports” thread what Title IX requires, I decided to look at the scholarship numbers for UA, assuming we max out scholarships in every sport.
Men’s sports:
Baseball 11.7
Hoops 13
Track/XC 12.6
Football 85
Golf 4.5
Tennis 4.5
Total 131.3
Women’s sports:
Hoops 15
Track/XC 18
Golf 6
Gymnastics 12
Soccer 9.9
Softball 14
Swimming 14
Tennis 8
Volleyball 12
Total 120.9
For most sports scholies can be split up, so the number of athletes on scholarship is far higher than 131/120. The sports that can’t be split are football, men’s and women’s hoops, women’s tennis, women’s gymnastics and women’s volleyball.
What all this means in the COVID-19 era is that if HY had to cut sports, he would either cut a men’s sport only or if he had to cut more than that, it might be two men’s sports and one women’s sport.