Today Duquesne University announced that it was dropping 4 varsity mens athletic sports.  Duquesne cited financial reasons for this move.  What was not mentioned in the article was the real reason the University and others like Duquesne are more and more dropping non-revenue (minor) mens sports.  The University has to continually increase the men’s basketball and football budgets so that it can
stay in the limelight.  Women’s sports are untouchable because of the threat of lawsuits via Title IX.  Thus the move to cut the non-revenue men’s sports.  If this trend continues within a short period of time a male won’t be able to participate in sports on a Division One level unless they are over 6 feet tall and weigh over 200 pounds.  How soon will the other non revenue activities on campus, such as band, art, etc. be dropped because of the need for bigger athletic budgets? So much for a Universities civic mission to represent all the students.