The University of Wisconsin athletic department’s contribution to the state’s effort to trim its $6.6 billion deficit will be about $3 million.
The state informed the Badgers athletic department that it must pay the state $1.499 million in each of the next two years, said John Jentz, UW’s associate athletic director for business operations. That money will cover Gov. Jim Doyle’s mandated 16 furlough days, the 2% raise state employees were scheduled to receive as well as a 1% operating expense fee imposed on self-funded state agencies.