TexasTerror
January 26th, 2007, 09:26 PM
$2M over budget for the athletic department...
Millions more needed immediately on campus just to get their act together (http://www.anygivensaturday.com/forum/showthread.php?t=19256)...
NCAA investigation in progress on the tennis team with that SWAC championship program currently suspended...
As unfortunate as it seems, Texas Southern is really in trouble as it relates to their athletic department. They plan to bring about changes and hopefully, doing so without rising the cost of tuition. Easy cut off the top? The athletic department. Stinks, right? But, for a university as cash-strapped as Texas Southern and in the midst of what you can't deny is a financial crisis, does athletics really have a place on this campus at this time?
How soon can this occur? Not sure. The Board of Regents has been given 30-45 days by the Texas Governor to get moving. As one state representative said in an interview with the ABC affiliate in Houston, "I think the best improvement is for the board of regents at TSU can make in 30 days is for them to pack up their stuff and go somewhere else. We'll just consider them absent."
There is a dire situation indeed and I think this is one that those of us in the FCS community should be aware about. I'm a proponent of keeping Texas Southern athletics. Obviously, there's a few SWAC folks and even Texas Southern people on this board who are even more adamant than I am, but unfortunately, the current tribulations may soon spell the end of Texas Southern athletics for the time being...
Millions more needed immediately on campus just to get their act together (http://www.anygivensaturday.com/forum/showthread.php?t=19256)...
NCAA investigation in progress on the tennis team with that SWAC championship program currently suspended...
As unfortunate as it seems, Texas Southern is really in trouble as it relates to their athletic department. They plan to bring about changes and hopefully, doing so without rising the cost of tuition. Easy cut off the top? The athletic department. Stinks, right? But, for a university as cash-strapped as Texas Southern and in the midst of what you can't deny is a financial crisis, does athletics really have a place on this campus at this time?
How soon can this occur? Not sure. The Board of Regents has been given 30-45 days by the Texas Governor to get moving. As one state representative said in an interview with the ABC affiliate in Houston, "I think the best improvement is for the board of regents at TSU can make in 30 days is for them to pack up their stuff and go somewhere else. We'll just consider them absent."
There is a dire situation indeed and I think this is one that those of us in the FCS community should be aware about. I'm a proponent of keeping Texas Southern athletics. Obviously, there's a few SWAC folks and even Texas Southern people on this board who are even more adamant than I am, but unfortunately, the current tribulations may soon spell the end of Texas Southern athletics for the time being...