NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP)—Vanderbilt railcar Kevin Stallings sacrificed a $100,000 pay improve to money his Commodores’ 10-day activate to state early this month.
Vanderbilt Vice Chancellor king reverend said weekday that the coach’s decision came in May, when officials were disagreeable to encounter money for the pre-planned activate during a instance when cuts up to 20 proportionality were existence prefabricated around Vanderbilt.
Teams crapper verify foreign trips every quaternary eld and improve money through fundraisers, games or donors. They cannot be paying for direct by a coach.
“I don’t conceive Kevin meant to be a trailblazer, but he is a trailblazer in this,” reverend said. “He was meet doing what he intellection was the appropriate thing to do in reddened of a sort of things. As such as he was existence generous, he also understands completely the significance to the fact that the rest of the university was having whatever business pain.”
Stallings has 14 players backward from a aggroup that went 19-12 terminal season.
The Commodores’ activate lasted from Aug. 7-17 and featured fivesome games with visits to Sydney, Melbourne, Townsville and Canberra.
Stallings wasn’t acquirable weekday to handle his decision.
The men’s sport team’s terminal foreign activate was to Espana in 2003. The trip to state had been designed part because edifice A.J. Ogilvy is from that country.
When deposits were cod for the sport team’s trip, officials couldn’t commit edifice assets without lettered that they would be paying back. reverend said that Stallings then asked if he could forego the improve cod him in his contract to clear for the trip.
“It was astonishing because I’d never heard of anything existence finished like that. It was not astonishing in the significance that it wasn’t astonishing that Kevin would do that,” reverend said. “I’m glad and conceive it’s rattling generous, but that’s meet who Kevin is.”
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