They just hired a director of operations back in August. His last employer was Sonoma State. Dude know how to pick them.

This is not really a surprise. They cut their baseball program at least a year ago. Academy of Art is just a tall building in SF. They don't even have their own athletic fields. I understand they originally saw athletics as a vehicle for bringing in artistically and athletically-gifted students who might pass them by without the opportunities to play sports. One could say UCD does something similar (only not so much about art) when it invests in sports that bring in little to nothing.