Grambling AD on slashed budget: ‘We won’t delete any sports’

[thederisoreport]

04-29-2009 12:15 AM

Despite facing a stunning $1.4 million in proposed cuts to its athletic programs, Grambling doesn’t intend to eliminate any sports.“We are going to take it a step at a time, make some moves to cut expenses and try to grow our revenues,” said first-year GSU athletics director Lin Dawson. Grambling is tightening its belt as [...]http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/TheDerisoReport/~4/Aql5Le4rDpM

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[TexasTerror]

In some sports, this will mean the complete elimination of out of conference play, I suspect...? I am sure there are several sports where you do not need to play OOC.


His strategy to get to this $1.4 million goal includes: further consolidation of travel for sports teams, scheduling the NCAA- and league-minimum number of out-of-conference games, a delay on purchasing certain low-priority items like uniforms and leaving some open departmental positions unfilled.