Students urged the University of New Mexico Board of Regents notto not forgive the athletics department’s accumulated $7.5 million deficit at the Budget Summit Thursday.
And the regents delivered.
Board of Regents president Robert Doughty made the move to table the issue of UNM athletics’ deficit until the department can provide a balanced budget for 2019.
“I need to be convinced now more than anything that we will not have a deficit next year,” Doughty said. “We table any discussion on dealing with the past deficit until we get a financially sound transparent budget for 2019.