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Message: [QUOTE="Hoo's That, post: 852022, member: 3609"] This is becoming a large problem at many schools. [U]Some[/U] of it is that more and more schools have a majority of female students. (I always end up going back to this.) 40 years ago UVa was >90% male, now it's 53% female. Some of it is that fewer students participated in athletics when they were young so don't feel any affinity towards the teams. On another message board, Johns Hopkins alums were lamenting how there could be a serious drop-off in alumni support for their lacrosse team in the future because of the increased number of international students. In addition, no one at the this juncture can say what the future of football will be because of the ripple effect of the health concerns. The loss of the football-based revenue stream will also put great stress on college athletics. [/QUOTE]