re: there is a problem in the Atheletic department

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So you think it is better first step for Green to unilaterally evaluate + micromanage budget cuts instead of giving program heads a try first? If BBall is cutting $, I'd want Bruce Pearl to decide cuts before I gave to Greene

Green is doing this the right way, it is giving program heads the first attempt to evaluate + trim fat before getting mandated from the top. This is how the business world does it to maintain efficient operations

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To do a cross the board cut to me is the lazy way of doing it.


First, this was always reported as starting as a Leath mandate. So hard to know how he'd proceed if he still was in charge.

As for Greene, he has always indicated it was always open for exception. That makes these "10% across board cuts" not mandates but "targets" If a program wants to operate above their target budget, they have to justify their reasoning.

We have finite $ and lots of projects we'd love to start from stadium reno, basketball upgrades, AD support facilities etc. Programs should have to prove that the way they are spending $ is more effective to winning than any of our other possible expenditures.


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best revenue producing programs may need that 10% to better compete in their sport. Just bc Greene said there could be exceptions we don't know if he followed through with that.


If Greene's #1 mandate is to win (not Leath $ mandate), he is making exceptions for budgets that directly impact winning.

Budgeting / Budget cuts are about making our $ more efficient by reallocating $ to the most effective expenditures.

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