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Akron Baseball averaged 256 fans per game this past season for a free event http://www.gozips.com/sports/bsb/2014-15/teams/akron which is not a very impressive number. If sports are going to be a marketing tool then Akron simply needs to cut away anything that they do not have to have in order to focus capital on football, basketball and soccer which are the things that people care about. We just finished pretty high in the track and field tournament, had a kid win the NCAA title in the pole vault, and no one could tell you his name. All D-I schools must field teams in at least seven sports for men and seven for women or six for men and eight for women, with at least two team sports for each gender. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA_Division_I Men's Sports Football Basketball Soccer Golf Tennis Rifle Women's Sports Volleyball Basketball Soccer Golf Tennis Softball Rifle Lacrosse Akron should drop 8 sports - Baseball, Women's Swimming and Diving and the Cross Country and Indoor and Outdoor Track & Field programs. While swimming and track/xc have won MAC titles no one knows about this outside of friends and family and no one cares in the general public. Add back men's tennis which was dropped in the late 1990's and add a new sport in women's lacrosse which could play at Infocision Stadium or in the converted track and field area out on Lee Jackson Field. Right now there are 20 sports, get down to 14 and make football, basketball and soccer the best they can be. N.B.: If you want to post on ZipsNation .. signup with your own login. Don't spoof mine. <from the actual Zip Watcher>

The only sports that people care about are basketball soccer and football. Anything that you do not have to have should be cut. N.B.: If you want to post on ZipsNation .. signup with your own login. Don't spoof mine. <from Zip Watcher>

This editorial is a nice summary of what is going on with the budget. Sport cuts are no doubt on the way. If you are the President what do you cut? http://www.ohio.com/editorial/editorials/a-framework-for-fixing-ua-finances-1.599876 Vanderbilt is a school that under a new leader in Gordon Gee, did away with the position of Athletic Director. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/sports/baseball/22vanderbilt.html?ei=5070&en=cdcdde13f4500637&ex=1178164800&pagewanted=print&_r=0 N.B.: If you want to post on ZipsNation .. signup with your own login. Don't spoof mine. <from the actual Zip Watcher>