Washington State University coaches, staff take further salary cuts
Coaches are taking further salary cuts and 10 full-time positions are being eliminated under new cost-reducing measures announced Friday as the Washington State athletic department tries to cope with the financial carnage caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
The school also acknowledged 60 athletes have tested positive for the virus since testing began in June, a big jump from previous reports.
Football coach Nick Rolovich, men’s basketball coach Kyle Smith and athletic director Pat Chun are taking 15 percent salary cuts while women’s basketball coach Kamie Ethridge’s salary is being reduced by 12.5 percent, WSU announced. All those cuts are voluntary, Chun said in a Zoom news conference.
All other coaches and contracted staff members are absorbing 10 percent salary reductions, either by mandate or voluntarily, and non-contracted employees must take two more weeks of furlough sometime between Feb. 1 and June 1, 2021. That’s on top of the two weeks they must take by Nov. 20.
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(Moscow-Pullman Daily News)