A group of University of New Hampshire students, parents and alumni gathered at the State House yesterday to ask Gov. John Lynch and lawmakers to do whatever possible to save the four varsity sports cut last month from the school's athletic department.


...Some alumni and students suspect that the university's plan to build a $25 million to $35 million football stadium "will distract the athletics department and will require even further cuts." Alumnus Brian Lucey, who grew up in Concord and graduated from UNH in 2000, called the plan "fiscally irresponsible."

"They want to build up their two main sports, basketball and football, into something bigger,"said Lucey, a former swimmer. "That may just not be possible."

Scarano has maintained that the money for the stadium is separate from the money for the sports teams.