With a 3-13 record, the UNM baseball team plays in an “empty” stadium.
Monday the UNM Board of Regents approved the use of a $2 million Severance Tax Bond, which was allocated by the 2010 Legislature for a new baseball complex.
“It’s not money that could be used somewhere else on campus,” Krebs said. “If we didn’t use it specifically for this project it would revert … to the state.”
And while the state is in need of more money, the athletic department says this is money well spent.
An impoverished university, its academics gutted, builds a new baseball stadium for a team without spectators.
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