http://www.cleveland.com/datacentral/ind...river_home

I often wonder about the accuracy of articles like this. For example, how is it possible that Cinci offers the most sports of any school (tied with Miami) but has the fewest total number of athletes of any of the schools that have football. Doesn't make sense.

Or Title IX influence...

(03-23-2017 06:55 PM)northcoastRocket Wrote:  I often wonder about the accuracy of articles like this. For example, how is it possible that Cinci offers the most sports of any school (tied with Miami) but has the fewest total number of athletes of any of the schools that have football. Doesn't make sense.

Not sure, but some men's minor sports are allowed to offer partial scholarships, while their female counterparts get full scholarships.

(03-24-2017 04:14 AM)DetroitRocket Wrote:  Not sure, but some men's minor sports are allowed to offer partial scholarships, while their female counterparts get full scholarships.

A link for scholarship limits

http://www.scholarshipstats.com/ncaalimits.html

Looks like UT is doing a pretty darn good job overall of not sticking it to the students like some of the other schools.

(03-24-2017 04:14 AM)DetroitRocket Wrote:  

(03-23-2017 06:55 PM)northcoastRocket Wrote:  I often wonder about the accuracy of articles like this. For example, how is it possible that Cinci offers the most sports of any school (tied with Miami) but has the fewest total number of athletes of any of the schools that have football. Doesn't make sense.

Not sure, but some men's minor sports are allowed to offer partial scholarships, while their female counterparts get full scholarships.

Finally went back and checked on the number of athletes and it doesn't look like the article is correct.

Article lists UT with 435 athletes. That's relatively close to what the Department of Education's Equity in Athletics site says tat UT reports to them - which is 465. The 465 appears to count indoor and outdoor track as separate sports (so the same athletes are counted twice), and also includes 12 male practice players for the WBB team. Actual number of unique athletes is 397.

However if I check Cinci, the article lists only 336 athletes, whereas the EiA site shows 559. The latter number makes more sense, since they offer 3 more sports than UT and those are all sports with lots of participants.

Hence why I am always skeptical about the accuracy of articles like this.