SSU Ending Athletics!

[larry legend33]

Brutal... Super sad to read this.

SSU announces deep cuts: Layoffs, program eliminations, end of athletics to address $23.9 million deficit

In a message to the campus community, Interim President Emily Cutrer said prior reductions had proven insufficient to resolve the university’s financial challenges.

www.pressdemocrat.com

 

[northbaybbguru]

Horrible

 

[coachlittle]

awful news

 

[larry legend33]

Yeah just brutal. Lots of factors but at end of day its one less place for the kids to potentially play. Really sad.

 

[colhenrylives]

Money simply is MIA. Which state college will be next? Chico? Monterey? Humboldt? Turlock?

 

[iamgearyblvd]

Larry Allen just rolled over in his grave.

 

[northbaybbguru]

In the hole 20 million? Yeesh!

 

[observer22]

Dropping football a while back was one thing, but eliminating all sports is just shocking, and terrible.

 

[Streak One]

Really sad news. And agree that won't be the last school of their size to drop sports. And that is a tough situation for a lot of high school athletes

 

[ankleassassin]

Sonoma has 5,000 students.
Chico has 27,000

that is the difference

 

[M.C. fan]

Sonoma has 5,000 students.
Chico has 27,000

that is the difference

Sonoma State always a great place to learn and play, sad day for the North Bay.
Always a sad day when programs are eliminated from mismanagement from over paid administrators.
Stanislaus State is facing some fiscal challenges, but they have a growing enrollment of nearly 10,000.
Humboldt has over 8,100 students
Monterey has nearly 8,000
Cal-State East Bay-Hayward almost 11,000
Sacramento State 31,000 students.
It appears Student Athletes are moving away from the north Bay into Sacramento and the Central Valley.

 

[ankleassassin]

Sonoma State always a great place to learn and play, sad day for the North Bay.
Always a sad day when programs are eliminated from mismanagement from over paid administrators.
Stanislaus State is facing some fiscal challenges, but they have a growing enrollment of nearly 10,000.
Humboldt has over 8,100 students
Monterey has nearly 8,000
Cal-State East Bay-Hayward almost 11,000
Sacramento State 31,000 students.
It appears Student Athletes are moving away from the north Bay into Sacramento and the Central Valley.

the issue is regular paying students. there arent enough that want to go to sonoma st

 

[larry legend33]

Sonoma has 5,000 students.
Chico has 27,000

that is the difference

Your way off on Chico. They've never had 27k students in history of university. They have been around 13-15k post pandemic and even they have lost enrollment. The fires really impacted that school.

Chico Facts

www.csuchico.edu

SSU was very poorly run and had a string of bad presidents.

 

[ankleassassin]

Your way off on Chico. They've never had 27k students in history of university. They have been around 13-15k post pandemic and even they have lost enrollment. The fires really impacted that school.

Chico Facts

www.csuchico.edu

SSU was very poorly run and had a string of bad presidents.

i meant appiicants

Your way off on Chico. They've never had 27k students in history of university. They have been around 13-15k post pandemic and even they have lost enrollment. The fires really impacted that school.

Chico Facts

www.csuchico.edu

SSU was very poorly run and had a string of bad presidents.

 

[Y Cap]

Students found out their first day back at school. So unsettling for students as many other school’s acceptance is closed. Many academic programs eliminated besides sports. Parents are pissed.

Newsom proposing cutting $372 million from CSU budgets next year so more impact coming.

 

[ayalar09]

Problem is if your a D2 school or smaller it’s really hard to generate revenue from sports.

 

[laidbackcoach]

Cal State system as a whole has issues.
D2 is in the most precarious situation. Because they offer scholarships their sports are more expensive than D3 without the revenue of D1. D3 is not as risky because the students get no money, only the coaches and athletic administrators etc. Other d2 schools likely to have similar outcomes but hope it is limited as this is not good at all for college sports

 

[larry legend33]

Cal State system as a whole has issues.
D2 is in the most precarious situation. Because they offer scholarships their sports are more expensive than D3 without the revenue of D1. D3 is not as risky because the students get no money, only the coaches and athletic administrators etc. Other d2 schools likely to have similar outcomes but hope it is limited as this is not good at all for college sports

Agree. This won't be the last one to drop. Really sad but SSU has also had a deep history of self-inflicted administrative issues. Athletics is just getting the short end of the stick. A bit of death spiral for this school.