Women's sports don't have to draw anyone at all. We still have 85 people on the rowing team and no one watches that.
OT: Notre Dame to join the Big Ten — for hockey
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Talking about the cost. Add a men's sport and you need to add same # of scholarships for women's sports - right? The big attendance men's hockey these idiots think will happen will not come close to covering a women's sport also.
Iowa could have some hockey success. But it is unlikely.
You are hanging your hat on a basketball team that won one NCAA game in 15 years? Or a baseball team that has been pretty darn bad for a long time.
It's not just the USHL, don't forget the AHL Iowa Wild in Des Moines, the ECHL Quad Cities Mallards, North Iowa Bulls NA3HL team in Mason City, and even the USHL Junior Lancers and UNO Mavs for those Iowans in Council Bluffs.
Title 9. I suppose we could add some more rowing scholarships but look where that got us. Iowa needs to add women's sports anyways. The first few years of building the program, yes, it would lose money. In the long run the program would be self sustaining.
If your argument is a Top 15 revenue producing athletic department cannot afford this you are going to lose that argument.
So in your estimation Iowa needs to scrap basketball and baseball because they aren't elite programs? Iowa has the $$$ to support it. All they would need is to find the right coach to lead the program like Fran/Heller/KF have with their respective sports.
Stop putting words into my mouth.
Go ahead, dream that Iowa will be a successful hockey school. But it is unlikely.
If being consistently successful were a requirement for having a sport, Iowa would have about five sports.
You are certifiable nuts if you think a hockey program at Iowa would be self sustaining.
It's not happening - even Barta isn't this dumb.
