re: #135 gwangung

Holy crap.

Republican stewardship, indeed.

Actually, the articles rang a different sort of alarm bell to me. When they discussed most cuts it was in percentages - 40, 50 percent. But when they discussed how much the football program was cut it was in dollar amounts. A few hundred thousand, a million.

So then I read it more carefully and, well, I find it’s even more of a scare piece without giving the reader honest basis to act.

The university has lost 50% of funding from the state over the last decade. What the article doesn’t say is the amount. State funding has declined from ~50 million to ~25 million dollars in that time.

To help pay for the cut, the football program was cut by $200,000 last year and another 1.19 million this year. This represented a 10% cut over the time period.

So on the one hand yes, the football program is suffering because of the cuts. On the other hand I’ve got a real problem (and sad lack of surprise) that the complaints are because of the football program cuts when the academic side took even larger cuts.