<p>What are considered soft or hard sports at college? Are they different for men or women? Are they different depending on the college designation: D1, D2, D3?</p>
<p>^^I can’t answer this definitively, and my ideas are probably similar to what you’d come up with yourself, but as a starter…</p>
<p>Men’s basketball, football, ice hockey, baseball…all “hard” sports. I suppose soccer, lax, and wrestling too, even though it doesn’t generate the revenue of football (but then, what does??)</p>
<p>Soft: Track, swimming, water polo, squash, crew, golf, tennis, nordic skiing, ultimate frisbee. </p>
<p>I am not quite as familiar with women’s sports, but I would think “hard” sports would
be lax, possibly softball depending on the school, basketball, ice hockey, soccer. I guess women’s gymnastics is also a hard sport. Only 65 DI schools offer it and many (probably most) offer the full scholarship allotment. It is also recruited vigorously (and early).</p>
<p>Soft…same as men.</p>
<p>I don’t know that there is a difference in divisions.</p>
<p>Bowling!(soft), but the average athletic scholarship for bowling is higher than baseball!</p>
<p>I’ve never heard these terms before. Could someone please define “soft sport” and “hard sport”? Is it related to scholarship money, popularity of the sport, or what?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Money going out vs money coming in, I think. I mean via alumni support.</p>
<p>it depends how good the team is… a team could waste millions of dollar on a football team, or if they win the BCS generate 10s of millions…</p>