2. When I was president at Washington, I had to agree with the AD to eliminate a swimming program, men’s and women’s swimming. I know those are hard decisions but they were the right ones for us. And now, I know UAB and their administration has to make the decisions that work for them over the long run. 

 

3. What everybody pays attentions to and what we all love as a country as football or basketball, man’s and women’s basketball. Particularly, both of them, but when schools are trying to support those programs, they are starting to feel the pinch in the Olympics sports, in volleyballs, soccer, gymnastics, wrestling and variety of other things. And I do worry a lot that we may well see in the coming years, a reduction in our commitments from our campuses in those programs. 

 

4. So it is this interesting irony that everybody thinks schools are playing sports because it makes some much money at it. When in reality, they virtually all lose money at it. And so they all are trying to figure out how can we afford to keep doing this and it is becoming increasingly hard…