Kit, are you watching results ?

I like the DCA/CA construct. There are ways to figure out which sports to put in which bucket -- Revenue sports that pay for all or part of their existence is one way. Sports where you have a strong winning tradition or a natural advantage is another. And there are sports where you can get an increase in national recognition by winning. Examples of the third would include baseball and softball. The College World Series and WCWS both draw significant ratings on ESPN around the country and the PL is an automatic qualifier to both. Find a way to have a good year and you get a million viewers watching your team in the Regionals, frequently in a part of the country where HC isn't as well known.

With the exception of women's lacrosse having a modicum of success from 2005-07, springs sports across the board at HC have been downright terrible for many, many years.

Can it be considered an embarrassment if not many even care?

And the baseball team had a nice little run from about 2010 - 2017 where it seemed like we were in the PL championship series against Army or Navy just about every year. Eliminating Nebraska in the Oregon St regional was one of the best HC sports moments we've had in the last ten years. 

But again, 1 Patriot League Baseball Championship in 31 years in a 6 team league is pretty darn embarrassing. 

Sadly, Baseball is treated like a D3 program, as it’s used to help enrollment, particularly from wealthy prep school families, who will be paying full freight. There’s enough evidence to show that winning is not the #1 priority

How bad is Lafayette? Is there any place in the labyrinth of the Luth or the Jo where our players can practice year round under a coach able to develop skills? That could be an alternate approach to dropping the sport.

There are plenty of indoor courts in Worcester County to practice at...that shouldn't be an issue. 

I do not totally agree with a lot that is being said about our programs. The way I look at it is that every coach is FULL TIME with the exception of M/W Tennis an M/W Golf. All these programs with terrible records for years drive me crazy. Kit has to hold all these coaches to the same standard. Now I agree that some programs have higher standards. Saying that programs are treated like Division 3 is no excuse. These coached are being paid no differently than other employees. It is up to the AD to hold these coaches accountable. An AD needs to be able to determine which coach to hire, like Ronnie Perry did and believe it or not, Dick Regan. These programs have a lot more resources than 10-20 years ago......Willard=success.....Pearl=success...... Dizenzo=Success....
Comrie=success......Bob Lindsay=success, etc. These coaches have all the ingredients: x's and o's,player development, great recruiters, the ability to develop a game plan bases on opponents, etc. But the bottomline is recruiting. How does Pearl get Jon Landry to HC over Dartmouth and Brown or
Tyler McGregor away from Yale.? He worked his ass off. It is called recruiting, selling the school and the program. The newer coaches get a little break. Maybe some like Track have a different objectives because of facilities. But coaches must be held accountable. Don't tell what you cannot do, tell me what you. It is up to Kit develop the standards. If changes are needed, make them and make sure to do your homework.

Being a coach is not easy, especially at HC. There are players out there. Go find them. Maybe they should double Chesney's salary so he can teach them "Recruiting 101"!! Enough said.

There's some truth to this, but before you can hold a coach accountable to a winning standard you have to level the playing field.  As I learned on this board, football and basketball are at, or nearly at the max scholarship allowance.  Most of our "minor" sports are lucky to have any.  Yes there are enough good full-pay student athletes in the country for any given sport to fill out the HC roster, but when you look at our ranking on the 2021 Forbes College Ranking (HC is #148), compared to other patriot league or high academic schools, you have to ask why you'd pay more to come here than Lehigh (#65), Colgate (#48), Lafayette (#68), Georgetown (#21), etc. when they're offering you as good an education, a similar or better Division 1 experience and maybe a bit of help with a partial athletic scholarship.  And #148 puts us right behind California State University Northridge at #147 and one notch ahead of American University in DC at #149.  12 years ago HC was in the top 30 on this list.  Apparently those days have past.

I like the idea of holding the coaches accountable.  I'd only suggest we hold the administration accountable first.