Portland State fires Bruce Barnum

[E-Wu Tang Clan]

Portland State fires football coach Bruce Barnum after 1-11 season

In 11 seasons with the Vikings, Barnum led the Vikings to a winning record just once.

www.oregonlive.com

 

[E-Wu Tang Clan]

It's crazy they kept him this long. I think in 2017 he had an affair with a female staffer and they greatly reduced his pay as punishment. Maybe that is why.

 

[Atomic Eagle]

Just saw this. It is curious as to why he was able to hang on so long there. Also, was he fired, or did they just not renew his contract?

 

[Zornes65]

He had one year left on his contract

 

[E-Wu Tang Clan]

Canzano: Bruce Barnum fired by Portland State

Firing took place on the airport tarmac.

www.johncanzano.com

This article kind of makes me feel bad for Barnum and makes Eastern look good in comparison.

Highlights:

The AD went to fire Barnum on the tarmac when they got back.

PSU scholarships are 50 percent funded. There’s no external fundraising, which means no revenue sharing or NIL collective. The team doesn’t even have a home football stadium.

Barnum and the PSU football team have been volunteering at Camp Exceptional, a summer camp for special-needs and typical kids run by Canzano and family for 10 years.

One season, the travel budget required PSU to bus to a September road game. There was no money for an airplane.

Matt Billings — the AD — is in over his head. He’s miscast as an AD and woefully inadequate as a fundraiser. The dirty little secret is that Billings is being asked by his president to trim nearly $3 million from the athletic department budget over the next two fiscal years. He needs to cut $1 million by next July, per a source in the president’s office.

 

[Atomic Eagle]

Just read that article and came on here to comment. Fired on the Tarmac. Not shocking, though. Portland State and Portland in general is a complete shit show. I don’t see how any up and coming coach would want to go there. Sure, we have some problems here (money being the biggest), but at least we have good leadership despite being on the wrong side of the wins and losses column the past few years. Portland State is beyong the pale. Sad, really.