End of the line for Banana Slugs

Still have my shirt. It's a classic.

 

Interestingly enough, Santa Cruz plays most of it's home games at the same arena used by the D League's Santa Cruz Warriors. And the women's team made it's first trip to the D 3 tourney this year.

 

That's my shirt (or it was) ...

 

A $1.4 million budget for an entire athletics department for a year. Nick Saban makes that in three games.

 

Finally actually took a look at the story, and strange that the writer didn't once work "Banana Slugs" into the text,
and then the site did only a partial (and cryptic) job in the cutline: "UC Santa Cruz slug Adam Marlow ... "

 

"Banana" is a trigger warning for those on low-carb diets.

 

The Slugs have been saved!

63 percent of UCSC students vote in favor of paying to keep D-III sports

 

Wow, a 43 percent turnout for a college election is amazing. Usually about 5 percent of the students vote for student government positions.

 

Bump ...

UC Santa Cruz athletics saved by Measure 68 passage

 

More than 70% of UC and CSU students are on student aid.
What do they care?

 

Because not a small number of that 70 percent has to pay that money back ...