It’s not a secret athletic departments are cutting costs anywhere they can. Then it shouldn’t be a surprise to hear Oregon is considering cutting its media guides in print form, opting to keep them online-only.
Nothing has been set in stone, Oregon Director of Media Services Dave Williford said, especially with the Pac-10 annual meetings going on this weekend in California.
“No subject is taboo,” he said concerning areas to cut costs.
He said whether the Pac-10 or NCAA create legislation to ban the publication of media guides, Oregon could decide to cut them anyway.
Oregon is one of only 19 athletic departments to make a profit, our ODE reporter Ben Schorzman wrote last week.
The most profitable, Ohio State, is cutting its media guides, as is Michigan and Wisconsin. Williford said, however, Oregon wouldn’t be cutting their guides solely because the most profitable school is; it has been a proposal that has been on the table recently.
