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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 41864, member: 27"]
From the perspective of a college football and basketball fan, this is not good news.

Continuing to cut the number of scholarships of the revenue generating sports to save money/allow more money spent on non revenue generating sports is short sighted.

This will lower the quality of the product and make it less enjoyable to watch.  There is no waiver wire or minor league to get replacement players from if players are hurt, flunk out, etc.

Let's just take the game last week.  Tulane was playing walk ons at WR on Saturday and SU has been forced to play several walk ons this year as well.  I for one do not want to see more walk ons out there...and that is what will happen (along with seeing skinny true freshmen that are not ready to play, players playing out of position, etc., etc.).  If the number of scholarship players goes to 80, I don't think you will see placekickers and punters on scholarship anymore period.

The same applies to basketball, where if you factor in the things that happen in real life to major programs, you are going to often end up with 7 or 8 players available to play on a given night.  There are players who leave school early, flunk outs, players who get expelled, players who get injured, player suspensions, transfers, loss of scholarships due to bad grades, etc, etc.

Football and men's basketball are the golden goose of college athletics.  Don't kill the golden goose.
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