When the sports world started crumbling in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak in March, Wichita State Director of Athletics Darron Boatright couldn’t have forseen all the crises would lie ahead.
Now, more than two months since the abrupt conclusion of sports, the virus is starting to take on a non-human host — athletic budgets.
Even though it’s still early, Boatright is already starting to make decisions based around the athletic department’s budget. That means a week-long pay cut for some WSU coaches this July.
“We were asked by the university, the president, that our highest nine paid employees to take a pay cut for a week,” Boatright said in an exclusive interview with The Sunflower on Friday.