UNC cuts all six area studies research centers, effective 2026 -- Maybe Not

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This is one of the main reasons why I've grown less interested in following college sports generally. I'm not opposed to paying players, but the current free-for-all Wild West system is ultimately not going to be compatible with the academic side of universities, imo. People can defend it however they want, and I know the money is largely coming from separate sources, but there is simply something gross about watching a great university cannibalize and eliminate entire academic departments on the excuse of "we don't have the money to support them anymore" while they're also paying increasingly large sums of money to kids to spend a year playing ball at their school and paying over-the-hill football coaches enough money to fund the departments they're gutting or abolishing several times over. It's not a good look, no matter how it is explained - and it's happening in public universities across the country, not just at UNC.

I have become less interested in following football and basketball. I have become much more interested in the other sports where we have student athletes who excel in the classroom and on the playing field.

Women's lax 11-1 ( lost to Northwestern in OT )
Men's lax 10-1
Baseball 28-5-1
Softball 29-9 after years of sucking under the old coach
Field Hockey lost in the national championship game in OT

We have great sports programs outside football and basketball

I think we are leading the Learfield Cup standings at this point