Could WSU decide to take football out of the driver’s seat? - Shawn Vestal, the Spokesman

The Cougars have gotten a lot better on the field. No doubt about it. But the area in which they’ve truly excelled has been overspending. On that field, they’re national champions. USA Today tracks the spending of every athletic department in the country, and its data shows that in 2015-16, only one college among the largest 100 in the country ran a bigger proportional deficit than WSU’s 22 percent, and that was Cal. http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2017/oct/22/shawn-vestal-could-wsu-decide-to-take-football-out/