re: Loyola Marymount to cut 6 sports in response to NIL

The bit you quoted there really needs to be put in context of the two surrounding paragraphs — Otherwise, it sounds contrary to the author’s point.

TLDR: Allowing Athletic Departments to consolidate would mitigate issues with revenue sharing like title IX, among others:

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The 14-sport minimum rule is far less benign that it may seem on its face. This is because a growing number of NCAA administrators and their allies are presently using this rule as an excuse to oppose sharing revenues with highly commercial, revenue-generating college athletes.

…They purport that revenue-generating sports such as football and basketball should not share their revenues with their highly commercialized college-athlete labor because schools have to spend large sums of money to comply with the NCAA’s 14 sport minimum rule—even though some of these other sports cost colleges money that they would never independently choose to spend.

…It’s kind of like a rule that says any college that wants to have a law school (typically a profit center) must also offer courses in the classics, French poetry, and at least twelve foreign languages. Nobody doubts there is societal value in offering courses in these subject areas. But, that does not mean a college should be forced to do so—especially given the likely tradeoffs this would mean to other aspects of the school’s budget.

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