Argonaut: Why Are UI Sports Spared Cuts?

To cut academic or research programs when this country needs smart people devising smart solutions to our problems is always going to be unpleasant. If the cuts go on long enough, they will reduce the overall quality and reputation of a UI education and will potentially deny academic and research opportunities to students, faculty members and by extension, the community. Athletics bring money and tourism to UI and Moscow, but are they worth investing in over brainpower? How many UI athletes will make it to the professional leagues or to the Olympics? A few, but they will definitely be fewer than the number of UI graduates who will go on to write books, help cure diseases or run innovative, economy-building businesses/Holly Bowen, UI Argonaut Editorial Board . More here . And: Alexiss Turner story .

Question: Should UIdaho sports be spared altogether when academic programs are going under the budget knife?