Who in their right mind would take that AD job now? You've got a prima donna football coach that is causing the university to bleed money with lousy results, attendance is dropping, and they are promising not to raise student costs or cut any programs. How are they going to come up with that money? Local radio yesterday was talking a lot about this, and saying that Deion has to do something to figure this out now, or this program is going to be hurt for decades from this "experiment". They even went so far as to say that Deion is going to have to (gasp) actually go visit recruits now, something he has not been willing to do yet for sCUm.
From the USA Today article:
At Colorado, last year the university projected a small but growing budget deficit for the campus starting in fiscal 2027. It even told faculty and staff to move forward by “being comfortable with being uncomfortable.” This has led to concerns about how football is paying for its big new expenses.
“With a lame-duck athletic director, a dismal football season, who-knows-what to happen with the (transfer) portal, donor fatigue, the distancing of football leadership from football alums — the prospects for making much of a dent in that deficit seem very slim,” said Roger Pielke, an emeritus professor at Colorado who previously taught sports governance in the CU athletics department. “That would mean that the university will have to fill the gap.”
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