NCAA Won’t Allow Institutes to Drop Sports

Following up on an earlier story; Conference Commissioners from the America Athletic Conference, Mountain West Conference, Mid-America Conference, Sun Belt Conference, and Conference USA petitioning the NCAA to allow institutions to fall below the minimum 16 sports for FBS Football Sponsoring Division I Institutions, won’t be considered as an option per the NCAA. Conferences were seeking relief in the wake of financial fallout from the COVID-19 (coronavirus) Pandemic that would allow them to fall below the minimum number by possibly cutting non-revenue producing sports.