We suck, we’re a loser program
And we always lose to CAL. And I’m hungover and about to eat McDonald’s.
UW women’s team swept the Big 10 championship.
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Can’t win the all and its great that Cal is around to compete with ~ the boys in the boat have been the better team most years in the series and its great to have the solid competition to keep both programs lively.
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Wake me up when rowing generates revenues
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Uh, don't you talk about women's softball like it's some great thing?
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We've been doing college sports now in the US since Harvard and Yale rowers invented the concept in 1852. Only Football and Men's Hoops have ever generated revenue. Seems like there's a larger purpose to Universities having a wide array Varsity sports than just those 2. But, hey, time's change…
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I've been very critical of softball and have called out that for what Tarr is getting paid the return isn't matching the money at this point
There's a tipping point coming for softball over the next 1-2 years
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I don't love the direction that things are taking … but it's also not my decision that it's going this way
Greed is winning here
If you aren't football or basketball you need to become self funding programs going forward … that's the bottom line
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Rowing isn't going anywhere.
What the fuck are we even talking about?
UW has a half share and an obligation to football, but they also haven't over extended themselves in sports over the years. Tennis might have to go club ohh noo 😱
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Crew at UW could go private rather easily
It is second only to football here
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Men's rowing has by far the biggest endowment of any non-revenue, Olympic sport at UW.
However, the endowment only covers about 20% of the overall team budget for scholarships, equipment, travel, and coaching salaries. The rest is football largesse.
My understanding is that there is going to be less football largesse in a few years for Men's Rowing, and they need to either (a) see massive increase in donations for the endowment; or (b) make some significant budgetary cuts. Or they might have to do both.
Ironically, CAL's rowboat team's endowment is about 2.5 x that of ours. So while their AD is broke, their row boat team is in a better position than UW.
