UC Riverside is amazing. Its athletes do quite poorly on the Academic Progress Rate. Most of its teams lose most of the time. It’s way heavily subsidized.
89 percent of UCR’s total athletics budget is subsidized through institutional support ($8.95 million in 2013-14), student fees ($4.83 million) or other methods, according to a USA Today database. The only Division I institution in the country more heavily subsidized (90.58 percent) is the New Jersey Institute of Technology…
Plus no one goes to the games.
June 21st, 2015 at 12:21PM
UC Riverside got rid of football decades ago, 1975, because no one cared about the sport. Located in the Inland Empire, the cost of living is the lowest of any of the UCs, which is main reason why their students show up. UC Irvine, Berkeley and UCLA COL are ridiculous, Riverside is very reasonable. My buddy and I leased to Riverside students, their rent was multiple times cheaper than what it would have been at any other UC located in Socal.
It makes no sense for UCR to maintain a D1 athletic program, it does nothing to entice students to the campus. UC San Diego and UC Santa Cruz have no athletic program of note, UCR should follow those models.