Since the move to Division I, UC Davis has struggled greatly as evidenced by the 9-22 record for men’s basketball and the 5-7 record for football this year. Compare this to UC Davis’ Division II career, when it won six Director’s Cups, which are given to the top Division II university in the nation.
But at least it’s destroying their non-revenue sports and bleeding money from the school.
April 12th, 2014 at 7:45AM
Sometimes it’s tough to tell when student journalists (and grown-up ones too) are being disingenuous and when they just don’t know what’s going on. For example, the editorial says “It seems strange that the state budget crisis would have any impact on the Intercollegiate Athletics (ICA) program whatsoever, as it is funded largely through student fees.”
Now is that a “butter wouldn’t melt in my mouth” way of insinuating that athletics in fact gets tons of direct university support? Or do they not actually know that UC Davis athletics gets on the order of $3-4 million directly from the university each year?