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Why Michigan athletics' budget woes should alarm the rest of college sports

Michigan AD Warde Manuel, with Darryl Conway and Dr. Sami Rifat, discusses the plan to get student-athletes back to campus for workouts June 18, 2020. Detroit Free Press

The expression on his face was stoic, the tone in his voice subdued, and the content of what he said sobering.

As Warde Manuel detailed the 2021 fiscal year projected budget for the athletic department he oversees, his remarks during a Board of Regents meeting Thursday summarized the sad state of college sports in the age of the novel coronavirus.

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