Many employees of the Naval Academy Athletic Association have termed it a “budget crisis.”
Athletic director Chet Gladchuk has downplayed the situation, calling it a “course correction.”
What is not in doubt is that Navy athletics has undergone an unprecedented cost-cutting process over the last four to five months.
Both the men’s and women’s basketball head coaches have been told they cannot replace assistants who departed. Other jobs in the athletic department have been eliminated.
Varsity head coaches have been directed to earmark a percentage of summer camp proceeds to the Naval Academy Athletic Association and each sport’s budget was sliced by 15 percent.