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...this, of course, does not even begin to address the challenges of dealing with a club team. As players from the rugby and ultimate frisbee teams will aver, club teams do not have much respect at Harvard. They receive very little funding from the athletic department—a staff editorial in The Crimson last year placed the figure at an average of $400 per team per year—and they are not allowed to use the varsity facilities, and they have to take care of all of their own scheduling and equipment...
...can’t even pay a coach for a week for $400, let alone afford to go to a national tournament,” says Undergraduate Council Vice President junior Randall Sarafa, who spent significant time researching the trials and tribulations of club teams at Harvard. “The UC actually does fund club sports better than anybody on campus, providing up to $2000 a semester. But if the JV program gets rolled into the club sports program, we can’t afford that as a council...
...Athletic Department’s answer, of course, is that if teams like rugby and ultimate frisbee can get by, then so can transitioning club teams. The new teams will be able to appeal to the same sorts of fundraising and recruiting, right...
...Blair points out, the presence of a varsity team will limit the attention a sibling club team will get, increasing concerns about funding and recruiting. Former JV men’s basketball team captain senior AJ Tennant says he recalls playing club frisbee his freshman year and having to shell out $500 to go to a tournament in San Diego...
Moreover, the shift to club means a simultaneous shifting of the administrative burden to students. No longer will the Athletic Department schedule games, practices, or transportation for the teams. Instead, this will all have to be done by the students themselves. And while club team leaders seem to have accepted this inevitable responsibility, some JV players are reluctant to transition their teams to club teams simply because of that reason...