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Message: [QUOTE="HRE Otto IV, post: 4955351, member: 5685"] You are right the Sporting Club is really professional sports. I don't think college Soccer is a profitable sport. That could change. Maybe going pro would bring more interest and more talent. I would certainly welcome it. Last year only 15 schools had over 1500 attendance per game, only 9 schools had over 2k per game, and only one school over 3k. The year prior the numbers were 13 schools, 6 schools, 0.0 schools, so even worse. So IMO college soccer would fit into that amateur category. The problem is schools are going to need to cut some sports. Most of that money that used to come into the school athletic department is now going to the Sporting Club. Before, Football and Basketball would subsidize other sports. If they went with the system I described, those sports would now need to be subsidized from the school itself, meaning from the academic side. Otherwise sports would get cut. [/QUOTE]