The wrong question is being asked . It shouldn't be asking how can UAA cut 1.7 million----why is UAA spending 10.5 million in the first place ?  Why are they giving free college educations to runners from Kenya and hockey players from Canada while raising tuition rates on all the other students ?  Who supports UAA sports programs anyways ?   Perhaps 90 percent of UAA students don't support their own sports teams.  The general public at large doesn't support UAA sports teams . The attendance numbers scream for themselves .  So why spend 10.5 million on them ?  The driving force seems to be the administrators and coaches who get paid in the sports department.   Why does UAA continue to host the Shootout  that has become third rate ?  They have to beg teams to play in  it and since the NCAA rule change they can only get teams few care to see.  Even in its hay day fans came to see teams like Duke---not UAA .   It's past time to gut the UAA sports programs, and save other students money.