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March 13th, 2009, 03:20 PM
03-13-2009 03:00 PM
New Hampshire Colleges Look at Cutting Sports Back
What’s so special about the number 27?
Chip Polak, the director of athletics at Southern New Hampshire University, is on a task force considering the question.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association allows Division I and II institutions to play 27 regular-season basketball games each year.
Not to pick on basketball alone, but perhaps, Polak said, 25 basketball games – maybe even 24 – are plenty for Division II. Cut out a couple of games a season, maybe a road trip or two, and a school could save hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars in travel costs and officiating and other fees associated with putting on a game.
Spread the theory to football, baseball, softball, lacrosse, soccer and any number of other sports, and the savings start to add up.
Read more ... (http://www.championshipsubdivisionnews.com/index.php/2009/03/13/new-hampshire-colleges-look-at-cutting-s?blog=2#more4401)
New Hampshire Colleges Look at Cutting Sports Back
What’s so special about the number 27?
Chip Polak, the director of athletics at Southern New Hampshire University, is on a task force considering the question.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association allows Division I and II institutions to play 27 regular-season basketball games each year.
Not to pick on basketball alone, but perhaps, Polak said, 25 basketball games – maybe even 24 – are plenty for Division II. Cut out a couple of games a season, maybe a road trip or two, and a school could save hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars in travel costs and officiating and other fees associated with putting on a game.
Spread the theory to football, baseball, softball, lacrosse, soccer and any number of other sports, and the savings start to add up.
Read more ... (http://www.championshipsubdivisionnews.com/index.php/2009/03/13/new-hampshire-colleges-look-at-cutting-s?blog=2#more4401)