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Portland State fires Bruce Barnum

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.
 
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?
 
www.johncanzano.com

Canzano: Bruce Barnum fired by Portland State

Firing took place on the airport tarmac.
www.johncanzano.com 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.
 
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.
 
Atomic Eagle said:
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.
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Portland State allowed both the Portland fanbase and local government to become apathetic to their cause. Remember, in the 80s, Portland State was a d2 powerhouse and routinely had 15k sellouts. When the local govnerment tossed them out of their downtown stadium, it crushed everything. The Hillsboro Stadium is 20 miles of the worst freeway driving you could imagine away from campus.

I go to every Eastern game in Portland and EWU fans are always equivalent or greater in number.
 
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