After the recent sports cuts, San Francisco State University will be left with just 10 sports next fall, which is the minimum amount to be eligible to compete in NCAA Division II. But how will the budget cuts affect the remaining sports that weren’t cut?
The 10 remaining sports include men’s and women’s basketball and cross country, softball, volleyball, wrestling, women’s soccer, men’s track and field, and women’s outdoor track and field. While the remaining sports won’t be discontinued, they too will feel the effects of the budget cuts.
According to Brandon Davis, the interim athletics director, their department is funded by Instructionally Related Activities and was over budget by about $400,000 just on the operations side, not including scholarships and coaching salaries.
“There were months of data collection, of looking at budgets, looking at deficits, looking at everything that it takes to be a college athletics program,” Davis said. “What we've looked at is how we can rema...
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