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I would bet those uniforms like the basketball uniforms are part of a clothing contract. Putting that aside, SERIOUSLY, WTF IS YOUR PROBLEM? move on, get a life, and let it go already.

I think there are a lot more cuts out there. These are just the teams.

Good one!!

They anti football crowd are a small vocal minority who offer nothing other than complaints. President let it be known a week ago that football was staying.

nice gig for Firestone.

Was the golf team's home course, Firestone CC? I can't imagine what that cost the university.

Greens fees.

I thought it would be more. Where are all the other cuts coming from?

"Based on my recommendation, affected by the decision are men’s golf, women’s tennis and men’s cross country. The elimination of these sports, along with salary reductions for select coaches, staff position eliminations, scholarship and operating reductions will total approximately $4.4 million." https://www.uakron.edu/redesigning-ua/athletics-05-14-2020

Or when Akron had lost two straight and was losing by 5 at home to Eastern Michigan with 41 seconds left on the clock.

Once again, I'm overcome with an overwhelming feeling of dread much like I had driving up to Cleveland for the the Akron/PCCC MAC championship game in March 2017.

Dear members of The University of Akron community, Over the last few weeks, you have heard messages from me and the provost outlining the imperative need for the University to undergo a redesign so that we can emerge from the impact of COVID-19 in a way that financially stabilizes the institution and positions us for the future. As part of that effort, we need to build a budget within the reality of our available resources, which have been significantly reduced. We need to work together to provide feedback on the plan put forth by the deans and the Office of Academic Affairs. And we need to do these things quickly. No aspect of the University is exempt from the need to contribute to the overall budget redesign. As I have stated before, The University of Akron is committed to having a Division I athletics program, but the cost to do so must be significantly reduced. I have asked Director of Athletics Larry Williams to develop a plan to significantly reduce the University’s financial support to the Athletics department and he has made a recommendation that does so by approximately 23 percent ($4.4 million). I appreciate his efforts and understand that these are hard decisions, but they need to be made. The Director of Athletics will be sharing more of the details of his plan with the campus community via email today. Thank you again for your collective efforts as we work together to address these challenges. Respectfully,

There was a debate on here about how scho Someone at the U broke it down for me and it seemed complicated but basically the deal was the the University wasn't putting much $ towards it.

There was significant alumni and donor backing for baseball. I like having a baseball team, and they weren't doing so badly before the pandemic hit. All of us on here (except for the one who continues to leak what is probably confidential (or expected to be private) info are shooting in the dark as to what is what.

Edit: 16.

In a few hours we will have 14?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/eastern-michigan-university-planning-to-resume-in-person-operations-for-fall-2020-semester/ar-BB142wMN I think the Ohio schools are all going to work together to open at the same time.

#1. I think there will be across the board salary cuts. I wonder if Groce and his staff will avoid that. #2. Women's softball is a perennial loser. Zips only have a a women's swim and dive team. Maybe track and field will only be women and cut the men.

I'm skeptical of graphs and charts. They can always be manipulated for the outcome you want. $4million exit fee to leave the MAC. I guess NIU and Buffalo will be staying around. Remember it was one of the higher up academics who stopped Mikal Dawson from joining the team even though he was eligible. Miller is a smart guy. Looks like he is going to strike the best balance he can. I'm very nervous about tomorrow, and I don't look forward to reading comments from those who appear to enjoy this situation.

I don't see the conference benefit of cutting the first round games. I can't imagine they cost much of anything. The Horizon league does that, and I never liked it. But times are tough.

Awesome. So excited about the football season. I really think this is the comeback year for the Zips. Arth has this team going in the right direction

I bet they are going to conference only and moving games to Mid-September first of October.

Dude. Stop trolling me already. You are tiresome. time to block you.

you may want to email the A. D. with that idea.

Lacrosse, like baseball, in non scholarship. The MAC is a good alliance for all the member schools. As a conference, they will need to decide where to go with football. Akron can't just go off on its own and hope to survive. I like the #s above from KReed. There is room to downsize. Also, I think the crisis escalated the restructuring of academics that was long planned. That can be handled in-house if you will. Athletics is going to take some time. and the crisis isn't a good time to make a decision that they will really regret down the road.