The athletic department at West Virginia University Institution of Technology has become a financial drain, partly because of bad spending decisions.
That’s the conclusion of an audit presented Thursday to lawmakers. Among other problems, the reports says WVU Tech has been awarding financial aid to student athletes who don’t stay long.
… The audit also faults the school for switching athletic conferences in 2006, and questions why it has had 14 different athletic directors in the last 19 years…
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