@MTH posted:Interesting article in The State newspaper today regarding the Furman program. According to the Athletic Director, Furman has been losing around $1,000,000 per year on it's baseball program. Lacrosse was costing them $1,700,000. Like many schools, their athletic program is funded primarily with student tuition. In 2019 they only had $8000 in baseball ticket sales. Sounds like change was already in the offing, but the program probably would have survived if not for Covid-19.
Some of the alumini have mounted an effort to try to save the program. Based on the AD's comments, it seems unlikely that this will be successful because of the amount of money that would be necessary to create a foundation/fund to sustain the program.
https://www.thestate.com/sport...link=hpdigest_sports
I find this incredibly hard to believe considering they hosted both South Carolina and Clemson last season. Unless they got absolutely screwed on whatever deal they worked out to use the minor league stadium in Greenville for those games, they should have easily made that much from one of those games alone.
It seems like Furman has been wanting to cut a sport for a while, they tried to cut their men's golf team a few years until some alumni stepped up and helped fund the program