SPORTS SPEAK UP!
REGARDING UNM’S athletic budget deficit, (Thursday’s) Journal’s editorial is spot on. How can UNM forgive (AD Eddie Nuñez claims this is nothing more than an internal money shuffle) the majority of a $6.7M debt, while at the same time raising student tuition? As the article points out, forgiving this debt encourages repeat behavior. What incentive would the athletic department have to change its ways? What blows my mind is with repeated prior unrealistic projections for budget income and expenditures, how does associate athletic director Brad Hutchins retain his job? — Bob, UNM Area
I GUESS I AM old fashioned but I was raised that if you make the bill you pay the bill. I am an avid sports fan but believe this is the athletic department’s responsibility and they created the problem. So solve the problem and do not, I say again, do not ask for leniency begging for someone else to bail you out. Is this not called accountability?
— Claudie/Rio Rancho
… I’M CALLING my mortgage company and hopefully they will forgive my mortgage too. — RC
THE QUESTION about the large debt and continued deficit spending by the UNM Athletic Department is whether any other colleges, schools, programs, or departments (other than UNM Press) have been allowed to continue to operate with any place near as bad a financial management history? … — BigChris41 TIME FOR UNM to pay the price. What message are you sending to the students and the residents of this state for that matter, if you just wipe it out. Instead of deciding whether to relieve the debt, the Regents should be deciding what programs to cut and who gets laid off due to mismanagement. Come into to the real world where money does not grow on the “regent funding tree”.
— Mark in Albq
GREAT ARTICLE on Loyola of Chicago in the Journal. Brings back memories of their first of only two losses that year, to Bowling Green in a game I attended. In front of a SRO crowd in tiny Anderson Arena, BGSU, led by center Nate Thurmond and guard Howard Komives, led second ranked Loyola 14-2 at the first time out and were never threatened, winning by 17 points. There was lots of celebrating that night in downtown Bowling Green as a result of what is surely the signature win in BGSU basketball history. — Allan, father of an attorney, BGSU alum