USC Rugby Head Coach Geoffrey Mason is unhappy his team isn't getting travel funds.By Manuel Gonzalez
Would you believe that USC has a sports team ranked 25th in the nation may not have any gas money to get to their games.
The USC Rugby club had a good fall season and was ranked for the first time in their forty-one year history.
With the school dealing with a $35 million budget cut from the state they had to freeze all traveling allowance for all the clubs.
"We have to pay for gas, for hotel rooms out of our own pockets and really it makes it hard on kids who are already paying for a student activity fee," says Rugby coach Geoffrey Mason.
Mason is upset because he doesn't think that the school should take budget woes out on students.
USC's student body president says funding for a ranked club is not considered a special case.
"If we're allowed this excecption here, what about the civil rights core offered by the NACCP we got make sure they take a tour of the south east. Then the Rugby team is playing so well we got to make sure they travel. Then the Engineer club is going to a conference so should they be able to go their because of their national ranking. So it just gets into a political game on who you give that money too," says Andrew Gaeckle.
The coach and players says they plan to come up with the extra cash and represent a school that next semester won't support them.
