Just a few weeks after deciding to chop scholarships for a handful of their 36 intercollegiate athletics applications, Ohio State president Ted Carter mentioned on Friday that the college wouldn’t solely retain all of these sports activities, however retain scholarships for all of them.
“Once I employed (athletic director) Ross Bjork, he and I made a decision immediately that we might retain all 36 Division I sports activities applications,” Carter mentioned in an interview with Eleven Warriors. “It’s necessary. Now we have over 1,000 pupil athletes. It’s necessary for our Olympic sports activities that we do that. Not many different faculties are going to have the ability to do that. And we’ll stay financially self-sufficient. That’s no small order, as a result of we’re going to be sharing a good bit of our income with our student-athletes. And at last, we’re going to retain scholarships for all 36 Division I sports activities.
“We’ll decide how finest to try this. There’s quite a lot of huge choices to be made. However these choices will assist form the dialog about how we will make it possible for our student-athletes stay college students first.”
A few month in the past, native Columbus media reported that the lads’s gymnastics program was advised that they might not have the ability to provide athletic scholarships to student-athletes, with different sources telling SwimSwam that they have been considered one of a number of sports activities to be advised the identical, together with inventive (synchronized) swimming.
The context is feedback in August by Ohio State’s new athletics director Ross Bjork that rosters can be reduce and a few sports activities would ‘act a bit bit extra like a membership sport’ as a part of a brand new tiered athletics division for the Buckeyes. Bjork mentioned that the college would retain all 36 athletics applications at the moment. Ohio State is without doubt one of the most sturdy athletics departments within the nation by way of the variety of sports activities it provides.
The breadth of varsity athletics choices is a giant differentiator between the 2 superconferences rising within the NCAA. The Large Ten provides 28 championships whereas the SEC solely provides 22; and past that, most Large Ten faculties provide much more varsity sports activities than most Large Ten faculties.
18 Large Ten member faculties sponsor 396 sports activities, averaging 22 sports activities per faculty. 16 SEC faculties sponsor 268 sports activities, a median of 16.75 per faculty.
Within the newest rankings from USA Immediately, Ohio State was the richest athletics division within the nation, incomes $251,615,345 within the 2023 fiscal yr. In addition they spent a report sum of money: $225,733,418.
The Ohio State ladies’s swim group received 4 straight Large Ten titles earlier than shedding to Indiana final season. The Ohio State males additionally completed 2nd behind the Hoosiers.
