Jodi Upton - Athletics Dept Budgets
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Is covering athletic department spending worth the trouble?Aren’t most athletic departments self-supporting?
Don’t football programs pay for all the other sports?
Three Sources:
Federal government
Department budget
NCAA report
Federal report
Equity in Athletic Disclosure Act data
http://ope.ed.gov/athletics/
Revenue and expenses off in one-third of schools, some as much as $30 million
Few details No incentive for accuracy!
Emergency use only!
Athletic Budget
Local Confusing Does not include expenses picked up by
the university or alumni foundation which can include millions in capital spending.
Can’t be compared to other schools
National Collegiate Athletic Association Due to the NCAA every
January 15 for the previous fiscal year (usually July-June).
Same format and rules for all schools
Uses national accounting guidelines
NCAA will not release the report. It has to be gathered using open records laws from each school.
Caveats
Does not always include capital expenses (stadium costs, for example).
Schools can fudge categories Alabama eliminated a student fee that generated
$3.8 million for athletics in 2006-07. They added it to tuition. Athletics got $4.1 million
extra from the university in 2007-08. Oops! Alabama double-counted $24 million in
revenue in 2007-08. Reported to the NCAA?
Two kinds of revenue:
Allocated: student fees, direct and indirect university support, state support
Any money taken from a tax-paying group (university, students) to run the department
Generated: money made from athletic activities
Ticket sales, guarantees, contributions*, conference money, broadcast, licensing…
USA TODAY’s version
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/ncaa-finances.htm
Currently: all 99 public schools in the 120-school FBS (top football schools. More coming.
Not available: private schools, PA schools, Navy
What it can do for you
Alabama 2007-08
If schools are more dependent on subsidies, are they cutting spending?
How dependent is your athletic department:
Other stories
(Lies My College Told Me)
“A major in eligibility, with a minor in beating the system.”
--C. Keith Harrison, associate director of the University of Central Florida’s Institute of Diversity and Ethics in Sports
Majoring in eligibility
Clustering of college athletesusatoday.com/sports/college/2008-11-18-majors-graphic_N.htm
How common is clustering?
83% of the schools (118 of 142) had at least one team in which at least 25% of the juniors and seniors majored in the same thing.
More than half of the clusters are "extreme": at least 40% of athletes on a team are in the same major.
Unusual degrees
Florida Atlantic42 upperclassmen enrolled in “Week-End
Management” (cq) South Florida
279 students enrolled in “Bulls Network.” General studies/university studies
Nearly one in five clusters are ambiguous or vague programs
Favorite sports myth # 12
We don’t need to save for college – my kid’s getting a scholarship…
Arizona State 2007