App State Athletics will navigate a difficult financial landscape due to COVID-19, one that involves the loss of roughly $1.5 million.
Each year the NCAA gives about 60% of its revenue back to Division 1 conferences and member institutions. The cancelation of spring sports due to COVID-19 means that figure is notably smaller this year.
On a Zoom conference call Thursday, App State Athletic Director Doug Gillin was blunt when it came to the financial future of App State Athletics.
“We’re working on all scenarios,” Gillin said. “I hate to put like a percentage on it in terms of ‘this is what athletics, from a budgeting standpoint, could become,’ and certainly our budgets will be lower moving forward.