Rough.
That’s how David Trainor succinctly described the past 24 hours.
It all started Thursday morning on a videoconference with his athletic director, Larry Williams, who informed Trainor, the head men’s golf coach for eight seasons at Akron, that his program was among three teams being eliminated as part of school-wide budget cuts.
“The school has their reasons and I respect their reasons,” Trainor told GolfChannel.com on Friday morning via phone. “It’s a tough decision because my AD had to look me in the eye and tell me that my program that I had put blood, sweat and tears into was gone.