UC-Santa Cruz to do away with athletics altogether?

[tornado]

Here's a new concept - just scrap all sports altogether...
UC-Santa Cruz (with the famed Banana Slugs mascot)

activists want to get rid of all sports - activists who think the school would run better and tuition would go down if all the effort & resources now spent on sports were turned back in to the university..
..very small minded as I explain below..

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/04/05/uc-santa-cruz-banana-slugs-could-scrap-athletic-program/

but the truth is that many colleges have done this in the past and it backfires...
college sports is the draw that brings certain students to campus...if sports are eliminated, enrollments seems to always go down, down, down...and so virtually every prior college and junior college that had previously phased out or eliminated sports thinking it would help - have found out it hurt, enrollment dropped, college life for the students was adversely effected, and in the end it backfired and the schools all re-instituted the sports.
Pushing to downsize Bradley basketball hurt us and our attendance big time and cost Cross & Glasser their jobs.



In a similar vein - Loyola is looking for ways to cut the costs of their Athletics programs.

http://www.loyolaphoenix.com/2016/04/loyola-athletics-begins-new-era-corporate-sponsorships/

[tornado]

while public schools and state schools deal with tremendous budget issues and shortfalls..
and are dropping sports all over and cutting back on what they pay coaches-
here we have private schools adding sports!

http://wqad.com/2016/04/19/augustana-college-adds-mens-volleyball-womens-bowling-to-varsity-lineup/