Tilting at Windmills - Matthew Peterson, Southern Alabama Vanguard

When the University was considering adding NCAA football in fall 2007, the administration promised this new program would not take any money from the general University budget. But the administration has brushed this pledge aside. The original football budget, which was proposed to the Board of Trustees in its December 2007 meeting, required no money from the general budget (though it does use $150 per student per semester of student fees). Further, USA President Gordon Moulton told the Press-Register that football would “break even” and not use University funds. But football has taken more than half a million dollars from the general budget since its inception.