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PETITIONPlease sign our petition to save dropped OU sports. Click here. If your current circumstances or position with Ohio University do not require anonymity, we request that you sign with your name rather than as "Anonymous" as some have. Thank you and thanks to the Women's Lacrosse blog for setting up this petition.MORE LINKSBobcat Attack Message BoardOhio University Alumni AssociationOU Students have an active discussion going on in FaceBook.Com. Click here to go to FaceBook.Com and join in.OU Student Newspaper "The Post Online"www.EquityinAthletics.orgSave James Madison University Sports.orgTaking Inside Higher Ed to the MatEMAIL CONTACT FOR THIS SITE: SaveOUSports ATgmailDOTcom |
BOBCAT COMMUNITY SOUNDS OFFSEE ALSO - OU BOBCAT COMMUNITY RALLIESOU ParentAfter a careful review of the press releases, news reports, the School of Recreation and Sport Science section on the OU website, and emails from many concerned students, parents and alums, it appears that all options were not exhausted before this decision was taken, as "Eric Bildstein, a senior thrower on the Bobcat track team," noted in one article.One option springs to mind immediately: OU is supposed to have the best graduate Sports Management program in the country. Were the talented professors and students of that school asked to tackle this financial problem to find solutions? It doesn't sound like it. The message implicit in the apparent absence of the Sports Management department's participation in solving this problem is that there is insufficient expertise and talent there to make a difference.How does the School of Recreation and Sport Science feel about what appears to be their absence from the process? It might be difficult now to convince prospective students and donors that Sports Management is a good program when OU cannot find ways to manage its sports budget sufficiently to avoid this personal, budgetary, and public relations debacle.Look at other schools where Sports Management is offered and see how well they seem to have done. The University of Tennessee would be a good place to start - 18 successful men's and women's varsity sports programs. The University of Massachusetts is another example - 21 successful men's and women's varsity sports programs.Being a part of a university that has to drop varsity athletic programs because it cannot manage its budget adequately or generate enough revenue is lousy advertising for sports-related curricula, something that those who teach Sports Marketing courses can tell you.If the talented people of the Sports Management program were not invited or allowed to offer their services to help prevent this terrible state of affairs, and if they have any pride in their abilities and the quality of the degrees they offer, they should demand an opportunity to do so now. |
DROPPED TEAMS
2006 Women's Lacrosse Team
Women's Save Ohio Lacrosse Blog
LaxPower.com message board discussion on OU LAX
Women's Lacrosse web page at OU website
Swimming and Diving
Save Ohio Swimming and DivingandSave Ohio Swimming
Swimming and Diving web page at OU website
Save Ohio University Swimming Discussion Forum
Track and Field
Bringing Back Ohio Track Blog
Track and Field web page at OU website
YouTube video put together for the Track and Field Team
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