COVID effect on college athletics - 2021 thread

[shooter]

probably time to take the "effective 2021-22" information in the old thread and roll it into a new one. See the original thread for sports that were dropped/colleges that closed in 2020.

as of 5/26/21

-Division I-
Stanford cuts m/w fencing, field hockey, women's lightweight rowing, men's rowing, co-ed/women's sailing, squash, synchronized swim, men's volleyball, wrestling **all drops reversed 5/18/21**
George Washington cuts co-ed sailing, m/w squash, men's rowing, men's tennis, men's indoor track & field and women's water polo
Iowa cuts men's gymnastics, men's tennis, men's and women's swimming/diving **WSWIM restored by court order 12/23/20; Iowa renounces attempt to drop WSWIM 2/15/21**
William & Mary cuts men's/w gymnastics, men's indoor/outdoor track & field, men's/w swimming & diving, volleyball **WGYM/WSWIM/VB reinstated 10/19/20, men's teams reinstated 11/5/20**
Minnesota cuts men's tennis, men's gymnastics, men's indoor/outdoor track & field **MOTF reinstated by Board of Regents**
La Salle cuts baseball, softball, volleyball, men's swimming/diving, men's water polo, m/w tennis **MSWIM reinstated 5/3/21**
Fresno State cuts men's tennis, wrestling and women's lacrosse; now at FBS minimum 6 men's sports
Michigan State cuts m/w swimming & diving
Clemson cuts men's cross country, men's indoor and outdoor track & field; now at FBS minimum 16 sports **decision reversed 4/22/21**
San Diego State cuts women's rowing
McNeese cuts men's and women's golf
North Carolina Central cuts baseball
St. Thomas (will be D1 in 2021-22) cuts men's and women's tennis
Robert Morris cuts men's and women's ice hockey, down to D1 minimum 14 sports but below men's 5-sport minimum, will need waiver

-Division II-
Alaska-Anchorage cuts men's ice hockey (Division I) and women's gymnastics (Division I) men's and women's skiing (one NCAA division) (cutting alpine, keeping nordic, by NCAA definition this is only cutting a discipline, not a full sport/team) **SKIING REINSTATED 1/15/21**
Oklahoma Baptist (Shawnee, Okla.) cuts men's golf, men's soccer, women's lacrosse, m/w swimming & diving, m/w tennis
Missouri S&T (Rolla, Mo.) cutting men's and women's golf
Azusa Pacific (Azusa, Calif.) cuts football
Concordia New York (Bronxville, N.Y.) closes, selling campus to Iona

**EFFECTIVE 2022-23**
USciences (Philadelphia, Pa.) expected to merge with Saint Joseph's, shutter athletics.

-Division III-
Mary Washington (Fredericksburg, Va.) cuts men's and women's golf
Monmouth College (Monmouth, Ill.) cuts men's and women's water polo
Houghton College (Houghton, N.Y.) cuts men's and women's lacrosse
Austin College (Sherman, Texas) cut men's and women's cross country and track
Wesley College (Dover, Del.) merged into Delaware State University, athletics discontinued.
Elmira College (Elmira, N.Y.) drops men's and women's lacrosse to club status
Bard College (Annandale on Hudson, N.Y.) drops men's lacrosse
Mills College (Oakland, Calif.) closes
Becker College (Leicester, Mass.) closes
LaGrange College (LaGrange, Ga.) cuts m/w swimming and women's lacrosse

-NAIA-
Tabor College (Hillsboro, Kan.) cuts m/w swimming

-NJCAA-

-Other-

[shooter]

right here in Dutchess County, Bard is cutting men's lacrosse.

[shooter]

some updates made. Clemson won't be going through with cutting men's cross country & track after all.

[shooter]

Stanford is keeping all of those 11 sports they were going to cut. Some quasi-interesting additions, like LIU adding another 4 sports, they have like 50 now.

[shooter]

Robert Morris drops men's and women's ice hockey. The women's program routinely won their conference. Awful.

Also, RMU now only has 5 men's sports and will need a waiver to remain in Division I. Grape job everybody.

[fox94]

Didn’t Ensor want them for the MAAC?

[shooter]

May 26, 2021 18:52:23 GMT -5 fox94 said:

Didn’t Ensor want them for the MAAC?

There was some mutual interest but as I understand it, none of the schools besides Canisius and Niagara were on board with the idea due to team travel.

[fox94]

What a great addition they would be. Lol!

Is Ensor retired yet? MAAC needs new leadership badly

[nomar33]

I can promise you coaches don’t want to travel to Buffalo and Pittsburgh 2x a year - Bryant or Wagner
best fits

[ctfoxfan]

Not Sacred Heart?

[stratusvolt11]

Truth be told, in the mid-2000's, the MAAC bigwigs frantically offered Sacred Heart and Wagner after half the conference dumped their football programs.

[ctfoxfan]

Here we go again...

New COVID-19 guidance for fall sports released


FYI... basketball is a winter sport. This is for soccer, football, volleyball...

[shooter]

seems like an absolute no-brainer to me, get your jabs (as Marist requires all students to do) and avoid all testing unless there's symptoms/close contact.

Or be complete utter dumbkopfs like NC State baseball in Omaha and watch your national title hopes evaporate before your very eyes.

There are still going to be so many dimwit teams in other places that get this wrong. Only now they'll be forfeiting games instead of getting rescheduled.