UT AD Fulmer to take pay cut as part of budget reduction in athletics

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University of Tennessee athletics director Phillip Fulmer announced to season ticket holders in an email today he is requesting a 15 percent pay cut as part of the school bracing for reduction of funds in athletics due to Covid-19. The Knoxville News Sentinel reports Fulmer stated the school cut the 2020-21 operating budget by 20% in all departments as part of what he called a “painful process.”