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The Notre Dame Fighting Irish have poured millions of dollars into their football program, trying to keep pace with other major schools of the NFL era. Unfortunately, in a growing trend, this is going to come at the expense of other Fighting Irish athletic programs.

In a recent episode of Irish Illustrated Insider, 17 Notre Dame sports’ budgets will be cut in future years and that includes reducing the number of scholarships.

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Among the reported cuts, the Fighting Irish baseball team’s scholarships will be reduced to 10.2 in future years. Barring a few select programs, the cuts will be felt largely across the board.

There are reportedly only nine Notre Dame sports teams, including football, men’s and women’s basketball, volleyball, hockey, men’s and women’s soccer, and men’s and women’s lacrosse. Additionally, every sport’s budget has either been frozen or reduced, with scholarship cuts also being a part of that equation.

Notre Dame’s baseball program recently reached the College World Series in Omaha in 2022. The program has now lost more than 20 games in four consecutive seasons and will finish 2026 with a losing record in the conference for the third consecutive year.

Unfortunately, Notre Dame is simply following the same path that other major schools have taken. Arkansas announced in April that it was closing its men’s and women’s tennis programs due to financial reasons. In future years, this will mean fewer scholarships available and no sports to play for hundreds of student-athletes across the country.

Meanwhile, the Fighting Irish are projected to spend over $30 million on their football roster this season, and that is believed to be significantly less than what some other schools are spending on their football teams.

This reflects the direction collegiate sports are going, with universities pouring money into sports that generate revenue and cutting budgets for sports programs or eliminating them altogether that do not make money.

Matt Johnson is the senior NFL and college football editor for Sportsknot. His work including the weekly NFL and college… More about Matt Johnson

PSV Eindhoven striker Ricardo Pepi is ‘severely disappointed’ by Fulham’s decision to withdraw from a deal for him.

espn netherland Report the striker could change his stance on a move to Fulham after last week’s drama.

Fulham’s move for Pepi was ‘almost finalized’ after the Premier League team agreed a €40m deal with PSV for him. The striker also traveled to London for a medical, which he is believed to have passed.

This was the conclusion of several weeks of negotiations after a move failed in the January transfer window.

Why did the deal fail?

Yet the deal fell through at the last minute as the club could not agree on transfer responsibility. This was a major element of the conversation. The two clubs had different views on when the ‘transfer of responsibility’ would take place.

Fulham wanted this to happen as soon as the Premier League transfer window opened. That’s during the World Cup, which is too late from PSV’s point of view.

Both clubs made concessions, but they proved insufficient to reach an agreement. Thus, the transfer collapsed at the last minute. Fulham simply considered the risk too great.

No deal is possible in future. In fact, PSV technical director Ernests has insisted that he would not rule out this happening.

Pepi’s attitude may have changed

Whether Fulham will return or not is a big question at the Dutch club. The same applies to Ricardo Pepi’s attitude towards any move.

He had wanted to move to the Premier League for a long time and had made his stance clear. This move was seen as A good deal for all parties.

But how will he feel about Fulham now? According to ESPN Netherlands, sources close to the striker say he ‘disappointed him greatly.’ In other words, given everything that has happened, he may not be so keen on the London club anymore.

If Fulham decide to return for Pepi in the coming months, this is probably something they will need to work on. As of right now, the deal is off and the striker is seriously disappointed.