AP's View on Hard Time in College Sports
AP's View on Hard Time in College Sports
Colleges suffering due to economy :: Sports :: Post-Tribune
AP's Tim Coyne 7/14 article on College Athletic's and Financial Hard Times
Along the same lines as the Schlabach article with some added examples.
Even Notre Dame, which has a lucrative deal with NBC to televise its football games, is asking its coaches in sports other than football to schedule games with opponents closer to home, athletic director Jack Swarbrick said. He said the football staff saved $20,000 from April 15 to May 31 by booking earlier and less convenient flights.
San Fulks, accounting professor:
In the five-year period through 2008, only 18 of 119 Division I athletic departments operated in the black, ... Those numbers were before the economic downturn.
"What we're seeing is that schools that are making money are typically making more money and schools that are losing money are losing more money. The gaps between the haves and have-nots has been getting wider. Over a 10-year period that's been pretty consistent."
UNLV also plans to save $75,000 by not providing primary insurance to walk-ons ...
What, no mandatory healthcare?
The Pac-10 has proposed NCAA legislation that would ban printed media in all sports, and is calling for a ban on international tours for teams and on schools paying for football teams to stay at hotels the night before home games
One Friday night about two years ago I almost got forced of the road by a caravan of buses with police escorts with lights flashing and sirens blaring. People were pulling their cars off the Interstate unto the median or shoulder to make way. I though this was the governor or some visiting dignitary as there were 12 police cars. The police were from 4 different jurisdictions, State cops, County Cops, City Cops, and Campus Cops. Curious why University Cops were part of the entourage as they were headed away from the University, I followed. I one point I apparently violated security protocals as I got waved off by one of the state trooper cars. Fortunately, they didn't go far only about 3 miles. They stopped at one of the fancier hotels in the city. The VIPs? It was the football team AND cheerleaders. (I thought they were for after the game?). It was for a home game and I was suprised to learn that this caravan with escort was SOP to put the team up for the night priot to a home game.
12 security vehicles. I was curious if all the police protection was to protect the team from terrorists in our Post 9/11 world.
Wonder how much that cost the taxpayers?
I hope the PAC-10 is successful in getting that nonsense stopped. They could cut more by eliminating the team of State Troopers that accompany the football teams to games home and away.
Then cut the football coaches salaries by 75%. They make more than CEOs.
