Good article at defector.com (paywall) about how men's gymnastics is surviving and moving to a non-NCAA model. I can't say thriving, because one of the most prominent teams, ASU, is a club team that sets up gymnastics floors on the weekends to make ends meet, with no scholarships at all. The author is someone that was a former host and frequent guest on a gymnastics podcast, so the article is written from the perspective of disappointment at the loss of programs across the country, including many of the most storied programs like UCLA and ASU.

https://defector.com/mens-college-gymnas...-survival/

W&M gets a mention towards the start in a paragraph about programs getting cut in the past year, and they note the reprieve.

"In 2000, [Arizona State University] tore down the campus gym where both the men and women trained with plans to rebuild the facility just for the women. “[The university] said, ‘You guys are done. We took your money away, you didn’t leave. Now we’re gonna take your building away so you gotta get out of here,’” Barclay said. He tried to convince the university to add about 20 feet onto the building so that the gym could house those men’s events that they don’t share with the women—men’s gymnastics has six apparatuses to the women’s four; the two that they share are vault and floor—and offered to raise the money in order to make up the difference in the budget."

Needless to say, the request was denied, and this was for a program that was competing for NCAA championships at the time. It's hard not to draw parallels between that move and our own proposed cuts. I'm not commenting on whether the cuts are justified; another passage points out that ASU had just spent $1M on a basketball locker room and doubled their football head coach's salary. It's more that I'm pointing out the way the winds are blowing. Schools are wanting ROI on sports, and outside of a small handful of programs in very few sports, it's just not going to happen. At some point, the value of the programs has to be viewed outside of dollars and cents.