Nobody wants to see FSU or Troy Steiner fail...NOBODY! But you are failing to see the red flags. Correct, we do not know at this point how the money was spent - why it was double the amount projected...but the bottom line is that the program cost 440k more per year than the university projected and this coming year FSU is looking at a 4 million dollar loss in funding to athletics. It should be a cause for concern. Of course all sports and universities are under the crunch right now, and as you said, OSU has some obstacles to overcome as well. But I still take the bet that OSU is in better shape than FSU as a program right now.


"It received $160,000 from the university in 2019, according to the annual financial report Fresno State submits to the NCAA, with $243,576 coming from donors. It had a total of $588,827 in operating revenue last year. Of that only $79,645 came from ticket revenue, a decline of more than $38,000 from 2018 when ticket sales generated $118,252.
Total expenses for the program in 2019 were listed at $1,129,826, considerably more than projected when the Bulldogs’ athletics department was in a three-phase plan to reinstate the sport
Department officials then had estimated the cost to operate the program to be around $689,000 a year."