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The school recently realized that its budget projection model for 2023 was off by $240 million, meaning that the school had only 97 days of cash on hand instead of a projected 156 days.<\/p>\n<p>This week, Arizona President <strong>Robert Robbins<\/strong> told the school&#8217;s monthly faculty senate meeting, &#8220;This is going to require some draconian cuts&#8221; after he and chief financial officer\u00a0<strong>Lisa Rulney<\/strong> described the situation as a &#8220;financial crisis,&#8221; according to Tucson.com. Robbins added,&#8221; I did know we were spending money, but I thought we had the reserves to spend money on&#8230; But this is a big miscalculation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The report from Tucson.com chronicles how Arizona faculty questioned Robbins in the meeting, with many professors incredulous that leadership did not realize the magnitude of the budgetary problems for so long. Numerous professors demanded accountability for members of the school&#8217;s financial team.<\/p>\n<p>Robbins listed financial aid and athletics as two financial drains on the university, and he hopes to cut down on the merit-based scholarship money awarded to students. But the athletic department could be a more dramatic source of funding cuts, particularly as Arizona prepares to depart the Pac-12 at the end of the 2023-24 season and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/conference-realignment-hitting-college-athletics-again-pac-12-in-flux-arizona-asu-utah-to-big-12\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">enter the Big 12<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the Wildcats sponsor 23 athletics programs, including women&#8217;s and men&#8217;s swimming and diving. In the Big 12, schools sponsor an average of 17 athletics programs. The school currently has a budget of $100 for athletics, according to Tucson.com, and Robbins noted that Arizona is struggling to repay a $55 million loan taken out during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The school is expected to submit a plan for financial reform to the Arizona Board of Regents by Dec. 15, and that plan should shed light on the cuts to be implemented, including if the swimming and diving teams will be affected.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona&#8217;s women&#8217;s and men&#8217;s swim and dive teams each captured national championships in 2008, but the teams have not achieved the same level of national success since longtime head coach\u00a0<strong>Frank Busch<\/strong> departed to become USA Swimming&#8217;s National Team Director before his eventual retirement. Currently, Busch&#8217;s son\u00a0<strong>Augie<\/strong> is the Wildcats head coach, and the teams finished sixth (women&#8217;s) and fourth (men&#8217;s) at last year&#8217;s Pac-12 meet.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/tucson.com\/news\/local\/education\/college\/university-of-arizona-tucson-budget-cuts\/article_1dd77a46-7d96-11ee-ac38-ef7fe0919160.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more from Tucson.com here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Arizona Heading for &#8216;Draconian&#8217; Budget Cuts; Sports Could Be Cut In the midst of a dramatic budget shortfall, the University of Arizona has announced plans to make enormous<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":312876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[56805,3181],"class_list":["post-572467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-college","tag-pac-12-swimming","tag-university-of-arizona"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>University of Arizona Heading for &#039;Draconian&#039; 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