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NCAA to reportedly furlough hundreds of employees for several weeks

Keith Farner

By Keith Farner

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Difficult financial news continues to hit the college sports industry, and this time it’s at the NCAA office in Indianapolis.

The Associated Press reported that the NCAA will furlough its entire Indianapolis-based staff of about 600 employees for 3 to 8 weeks in a cost-saving move.

Starting Sept. 21 through the end of January 2021, all national office staff will be subjected to a mandatory three-week furlough, President Mark Emmert wrote in a memo to member schools. Some staff will be furloughed up to eight weeks, depending on position and “seasonal timing of their duties.”

USA Today previously reported that Emmert and NCAA senior management were taking a 20 percent salary reduction and vice presidents would be taking 10 percent pay cuts. The association also implemented salary freezes for all employees and did not fill open positions.

“There decisions are unfortunate but necessary as we continue to identify ways to cut costs across the national office,” Emmert wrote. He said all the measures represent “top of budget cuts in every national office group totaling nearly half our operating budget.”

The NCAA took a massive financial hit when it canceled the men’s college basketball tournament in March because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The tournament accounts for almost all of the NCAA’s annual revenue, which reached $1.1 billion last year.

Keith Farner

A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.

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