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Commentary by Jeff Commings, Swimming World Senior Writer<\/i><\/p>\n

When we hear that a collegiate swimming and diving program is being canceled, the primary reason the universities give is budget cuts. But is that always the case?<\/p>\n

According to documents obtained by Swimming World<\/i>, the University of California-Davis was not telling the truth when it announced in 2010 that the men\u2019s swimming and diving program would be among four programs cut from the athletic department due to budget tightening. What really happened was that the money that would have been used to pay for those coaches and operate the sports was siphoned to other teams. Even more shocking was that the athletic department did not cut back on expenses, but continued to give sports more money to spend.<\/p>\n

Linda Katehi<\/strong>, the current Chancellor at UC-Davis, said in 2010 that cutting men\u2019s swimming and diving \u2013 as well as women\u2019s rowing, men\u2019s wrestling and men\u2019s indoor track and field \u2013 would help cut $5 million from the athletic department\u2019s budget and put the finances back in the black by 2014. Expenses would be reduced, and that was going to include a cut in administrative salaries. Katehi also said the university would no longer be receiving state funds for athletics.<\/p>\n

Everyone believed what Katehi was saying, and they had good reason to do so. California was going through a statewide budget crisis at the time, and public universities across the state began to panic when they realized they might have to slice some programs on their campuses.<\/p>\n

But as the years went on, UC-Davis\u2019 athletic department\u2019s budget showed no sign of anemia. In the four years after cutting the four teams, expenses increased 15 percent, from $25.7 million in 2011 to $29.5 million in 2015. The athletic department continued to operate in a loss for two of those years, as expenses exceeded revenue. No member of the administration received a pay cut.<\/p>\n

Documents reveal that UC-Davis\u2019 athletic department was not receiving any state money in 2010 when it made this tough decision. Revenue was largely coming from student tuition, thanks to a funding program called the Student Activities and Services Initiative (SASI) that was universally approved by the student body in 1994. The initiative would pay coaching salaries and allow coaches to also act as teachers in the school\u2019s physical education department, an extra job responsibility almost exclusive to UC-Davis. Another program, the Campus Expansion Initiative (CEI), would help pay for the university\u2019s main goal of adhering to Title IX directives by adding women\u2019s sports while promising equal treatment among sports in the athletic department.<\/p>\n

But there was unequal treatment in the UC-Davis athletic department. Rowing was the university\u2019s largest women\u2019s sport, and cutting that team created a major imbalance in the male-to-female ratio. The remedy to that imbalance: Cut three men\u2019s teams. Since then, no new women\u2019s sports have been added to the program, which is a major violation of one of the major principles of the university created as a result of the CEI referendum.<\/p>\n

The lies continued. Paul Medved<\/strong> is an alumnus of the university, and was a major supporter of the university until the athletic department announced its program cuts in 2010. It enraged Medved, but the real anger came a few years later when he began to review the athletic department\u2019s budgets and saw that spending was not declining as promised.<\/p>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t believe that they thought they were getting away with it,\u201d Medved said during a recent phone chat. \u201cAfter that, I couldn\u2019t watch a [UC-Davis] football game without getting angry or sick to my stomach.\u201d<\/p>\n

Because student tuition is a large revenue source for the athletic department, the UC-Davis students could be viewed as stockholders. In essence, the university was lying to its stockholders as it continued to overspend and seemingly do nothing to reduce the budget. That was particularly infuriating to Medved, and he started to reach out to the university administration to demand answers. The few people he managed to talk to turned a deaf ear to his complaints and a blind eye to the documents he sent them.<\/p>\n

Realizing that the university wasn\u2019t going to answer to him, Medved felt the only way the public would see how the university was cheating the system was through legislative action. Medved has been working to secure legal representation and sue the university on behalf of the student body, but no attorney has been willing to accept such a daunting case.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s what gets me out of bed early in the morning every weekend,\u201d Medved said of his work to get a court date.<\/p>\n

The men\u2019s swim team at UC-Davis was on track to be successful two years after it was disbanded. Alumnus Scott Weltz<\/strong> won the 200 breast at the 2012 Olympic Trials<\/a>, and his participation at the Olympics \u2013 placing fifth in the 200 breast final \u2013 would have been a boon for the program to bring in top talent. Medved, whose daughter Emily competed on the women\u2019s swim team from 2005 to 2009, said the university did nothing to promote Weltz\u2019s performance at the Olympics, and he believes it was because the promotion would have triggered a public push to bring back the men\u2019s swim team.<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick<\/p><\/div>\n

Though Medved is looking at the broader picture, others have focused their fight solely on bringing back all or some of the programs cut in 2010. Those petitions have also gone ignored.<\/p>\n

UC-Davis has been very quiet in the past four years about this issue, either with the public or the media. A statement from Katehi in 2014 published by the school newspaper The California Aggie<\/i> remains one of the few public comments from the administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs challenging as these decisions were, I am confident that we took the steps necessary to protect our core educational, research and public service missions and acted in accordance with our institutional values,\u201d Katehi said in the newspaper article<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I would like to believe that the situation at UC-Davis is unique, that no other university who cut an athletic team lied to cover up a completely opposite agenda. The athletes were the biggest victims, and there\u2019s nothing that Katehi can say to ease the pain.<\/p>\n

Though UC-Davis is still hurting financially, the university\u2019s athletic department needs to seriously consider reinstating the four teams it cut in 2010. Though these sports do not generate millions in revenue, it would be a great public relations move that would help restore faith and possibly give the school\u2019s alumni base motivation to help solve the school\u2019s money problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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