Last week, U. Maryland (where I was a professor until this past summer) announced it was eliminating 8 varsity sports teams to make up for the fact that football was losing too much money.
Here’s what they are cutting: men’s cross-country, indoor track, outdoor track, men’s swimming and diving, men’s tennis, women’s acrobatics and tumbling, women’s swimming and diving, and women’s water polo.
This proves my point that football is more important than other sports by eliminating 8 varsity sports because it had a bad season. The president of U. Maryland Wallace Loh was the one to send this information of to the students, teachers and faculty.