Apathy is Cal Athletic's greatest enemy.
We're lucky to follow a robust athletics program with more programs than all but a small collection of other schools. We’re lucky to follow a University that happens to be located in a dynamic, beautiful, highly desirable part of the country.
We’re unlucky that those two facts makes Cal athletics prohibitively expensive to operate.
Six years ago, Cal came thisclose to cutting four sports and reclassifying a fifth. A fundraising push saved those sports but did nothing to address the structural problem that still has Cal sports operating firmly at a deficit.