Should taxpayer money be used to recruit and retain college athletes to play in Hawaiʻi?
In a public meeting with state legislators on Wednesday, University of Hawaiʻi officials said the school will ask for $5 million from the state to pay potential students to play at the university.
“I can tell you that it’s already affected us in our recruiting cycles. We are going into our second and third recruiting cycles, and we’ve already lost six to 10 kids because we do not have the funding available currently to retain the type of kids that we need,” said Laura Beeman, head coach for the women’s basketball team at UH Mānoa, at the meeting…