Cal Athletics is still running deep in the red. Changes could be brewing. Jon Wilner has more.
Five years after a heated effort to save multiple Cal sports, it appears economic realities are making it clear some Olympic sports are in danger of not surviving. After Cal baseball, rugby, men’s and women’s gymnastics and women’s lacrosse were chopped and then revived through aggressive fundraising, the athletic department is mulling again putting sports on the chopping block. They’re even considering radical cutbacks to the athletic department. Here are the options being considered.
Sources believe there are three potential outcomes:
♦ The university could re-commit to its current model but with long-term, sport-specific endowments to fund operations and with an additional $10 million (or more) in annual support from central campus.