CollegeSportsInfo.com News: August 2008

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Fate of CHA Hockey hanging by thread

When former Minnesota goaltender Brent Solei was tacking on his first career win last January in a 5-1 victory over now-defunct Wayne State, I assumed I was seeing the beginning of the end for College Hockey America.

Already grasping an NCAA rule that allows college conferences to retain an automatic NCAA tourney bid without the necessary field of six teams, the CHA was dealt an apparent death blow when the Warriors program shut down after last season for financial reasons.

Rutgers Football Financial Woes

The NY Times had an interesting article about Rutgers football and the costs surrounding it. As a UMass alum, it brought back some Title IX nightmares from the past when the university had to cut some very successful sports. It's worth the read.

Ever since Rutgers, New Jersey’s largest state university, began its campaign several years ago to become a big-time football power, bad things have happened. Less-glamorous sports teams — tennis, swimming and fencing among them — were downgraded to intramural status to save on the budget, and more and more money has gone to football rather than academics.

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