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Ohio State University president Ted Carter says that the school won’t cut scholarships for any of its 36 athletics programs. Archive photo via Ohio State University
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November 09th, 2024
A few weeks after deciding to cut scholarships for a handful of their 36 intercollegiate athletics programs, Ohio State president Ted Carter said on Friday that the school would not only retain all of those sports, but retain scholarships for all of them.
“When I hired (athletic director) Ross Bjork, he and I decided right away that we would retain all 36 Division I sports programs,” Carter said in an interview with Eleven Warriors. “It’s important. We have over 1,000 student athletes. It’s important for our Olympic sports that we do this. Not many other schools are going to be able to do this. And we will remain financially self-sufficient. That’s no small order, because we’re going to be sharing a fair bit of our revenue with our student-athletes. And finally, we’re going to retain scholarships for all 36 Division I sports.
“We will determine how best to do that. There’s a lot of big decisions to be made. But these decisions will help shape the conversation about how we can make sure that our student-athletes remain students first.”
About a month ago, local Columbus media reported that the men’s gymnastics program was told that they would no longer be able to offer athletic scholarships to student-athletes, with other sources telling SwimSwam that they were one of several sports to be told the same, including artistic (synchronized) swimming.
The context is comments in August by Ohio State’s new athletics director Ross Bjork that rosters would be cut and some sports would ‘act a little bit more like a club sport’ as part of a new tiered athletics department for the Buckeyes. Bjork said that the school would retain all 36 athletics programs at that time. Ohio State is one of the most robust athletics departments in the country in terms of the number of sports it offers.
The breadth of varsity athletics offerings is a big differentiator between the two superconferences emerging in the NCAA. The Big Ten offers 28 championships while the SEC only offers 22; and beyond that, most Big Ten schools offer far more varsity sports than most Big Ten schools.
18 Big Ten member schools sponsor 396 sports, averaging 22 sports per school. 16 SEC schools sponsor 268 sports, an average of 16.75 per school.
In the latest rankings from USA Today, Ohio State was the richest athletics department in the country, earning $251,615,345 in the 2023 fiscal year. They also spent a record amount of money: $225,733,418.
The Ohio State women’s swim team won four straight Big Ten titles before losing to Indiana last season. The Ohio State men also finished 2nd behind the Hoosiers.
OSU has been known to say one thing and do the other. They will be cutting sports in the next few years.
…for now
Quarter of a billion dollar organization graciously announces it will keep offering a few hundred thousand dollars in athletic scholarships. Such a victory.
They only have $250m in the bank? I find that hard to believe. The endowment has to be several x that number
250 mil is annual revenue from sports (football).
Good decision, Buckeyes!
This is preemptive … more and/or changes to come.
Rumor has it Big 12 roster caps will be at 24. Mid majors introducing roster caps as well
Only 24 for men in the big 12? Was expecting the full 30.
Seems like that is the limit that the big conferences are leaning toward
Just doesn’t make sense to me why the NCAA and the power 4 is eliminating walk-ons
I’m don’t fully understand it either *unless all varsity athletes* are going to get some money outside of traditional scholarship money. If every varsity athlete costs them more than just a couple of swim suits, then it makes more sense to me.
What I would say is that I have heard a lot of reports about where each conference’s roster limit will fall from immensely authoritative sources, and many of those authoritative sources have different information.
It does seem like the men’s number will be somewhere in the 22-26 range, but exactly where doesn’t seem to be set. Either the decision makers are negotiating and therefore the number is changing, or they’re intentionally sharing false info to confuse the market.
Nobody is telling me anything but 30 for the women’s number, FWIW.
Hopefully we get some clarity soon.
Those costs will be passed down to regular student tuition fees
Those costs?….It says sports make 250 million and pay 225.Thats a profit of 25 million.Don,t see the problem.
Ohio State is one of the few schools where the athletic department gives money to the school’s general scholarship fund every year. I would guess that donation is where part of the scholarship money will come from.
It’s going to be interesting to see how schools and their athletic departments interact in the next 5-10 years. Will we see a decoupling from the universities and their athletic departments? Or will they get more intertwined?
The revenue sports only really need the name if they begin operating like semi-pro leagues and the schools want the attention and recognition that sports bring. If revenue sports start to bring in the type of money that is out there there might be a strong incentive for Football for instance just to break away from any educational association.
If you project out a bit and follow the probably path of money, I’m willing to bet that within 15-20 years we see… Read more »
“most Big Ten schools offer far more varsity sports than most Big Ten schools.”?
B1G it just means most?
Braden Keith is the Editor-in-Chief and a co-founder/co-owner of SwimSwam.com. He first got his feet wet by building The Swimmers’ Circle beginning in January 2010, and now comes to SwimSwam to use that experience and help build a new leader in the sport of swimming. Aside from his life on the InterWet, …
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