The University of Akron’s maintenance of a Division I FBS football program was hard enough to justify even before last week’s announcement of another round of budget cuts calling for a 20% reduction of all non-academic administrative expenses at the debt-ridden institution. Last November, the Beacon Journal published a column by Bob Dyer taking stock of the program as it was set to complete its first winless (0-12) season since Otis Douglas’s boys went 0-7-2 in 1942. Dyer penned the column after attending a home game against Eastern Michigan where “exactly 54 people were in the stands” of the 30,000-seat Infocision Stadium, the “monstrous” $71 million facility that has seen 25 home wins during its 11-year existence ($2.
Budget cuts render University of Akron’s football program increasingly indefensible
