Football expenses account for 30 percent of the athletic budget.
The teams would have been reduced to club status as part of a $188,650 cut in the athletic budget.
In any event, compliance is often difficult on athletic budgets.
Under his leadership over the past four years, the Americans are finally on solid financial ground, with an athletic budget of $12 million.
The school has a modest annual athletic budget of $1.1 million.
Proceeds from football, and donations related to the sport, account for 80 percent of the university's $50 million athletic budget.
At the same time, especially in the past decade, many athletic budgets have been slashed.
Byrne managed an annual athletic budget in excess of $75 million.
The money comes out of our regular athletic budget.
Too many athletes are enriching athletic budgets and not getting the education they signed for.