My thoughts are with Fred Turoff and everyone at Temple right now. 😦
I hope they can rally as did Cal.
The Board of Trustees approved a recommendation from Athletic Director Kevin Clark Friday to eliminate seven intercollegiate sports from the university’s Division I sponsorship, effective July 1, 2014.
The following sports will be cut: baseball, softball, men’s crew, women’s rowing, men’s gymnastics and men’s indoor/outdoor track & field. Approximately 150 student-athletes will be affected and nine full-time coaches will lose their jobs.
The cuts were described by officials as a culmination of the university’s long history of an underfunded athletic department despite sponsoring a relatively large number of sports. Student-athletes under scholarship are still guaranteed financial aid for the remainder of their academic tenure and will be able to transfer without sitting out a year. …
Temple News – University to eliminate seven intercollegiate sports
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#SAVETUMG
(via Jeff Robinson)
related – Philly.com – Temple to drop 7 sports, including baseball, rowing
Update via Dvora Meyers:
… The cuts will save just $3 million of Temple athletics’ $44 million annual budget, or not much more than it costs to run one of the FBS’s worst football teams (and run it at a loss). …
Deadspin – How Temple Football Pulled Everything Down With It
Gymnastics Coaching.com 