Soccer teams turn to spring to alleviate budget

Syracuse Director of Athletics Daryl Gross recently granted both SU men’s and women’s soccer permission to use the SU Soccer Stadium more extensively in the spring for offseason matches.

NCAA regulations allow soccer teams to play on five spring dates, plus another two exhibition games.

Women’s soccer head coach Pat Farmer said his team hosted just one spring game at the stadium in his first two years at Syracuse. This spring, the Orange will host five games, slashing Farmer’s offseason budget considerably. Instead of paying for travel expenses, Syracuse will only have to foot the bill for referees.

‘We don’t have a whole bunch of extra money,’ Farmer said, ‘but we don’t have to skimp and say, ‘Here, we can’t play that (regular season) game because we don’t have enough money.”

Published on April 26, 2007 at 12:00 pm