WWU shuts down college football program

[kevyn]

Another victim of the economic crunch:

Western Washington University is ending its Football program

WWU has had a huge budget shortfall, due to the economic meltdown. For instance, they've frozen hiring for all open positions -- part of why I can't seem to find a job locally. Closing down the college football program for economic reasons is just further evidence about how bad it's getting.

Western's not a big football school. In my 2 years at the school, I never went to a game. None of my friends went to games. Football just never was very big here. Unlike many schools, football was never much of a source of revenue, and the program is losing money.

But I have to admit, I'm still a little surprised...

Comments

[seespikerun.livejournal.com]

Im so damn happy, we don't even have a stadium to watch it at anyway. Im hoping that all the football players will be in their gear protesting in red square next week, maybe they would get a bigger turnout than what i can muster.

[tianas-knife.livejournal.com]

Damn.
Thats upsetting. I wonder if they'll kill the basketball team. Their music department got a big budget last year to buy a bunch of new instruments and create a pep band for the football and basketball games. They just started it last year. I had a bunch of friends on the pep band, it was really fun!
:/