Yes the U of MN Athletic office is self-sufficient, no tax money here,
especially with OUR Governor! ;-)

However, to try and bleed the hockey and basketball fans in order
to support all the other sports, is NOT FAIR.

This has been going on for quite some time now, and instead of letting
certain programs, football especially spend, spend, spend, and not
showing a profit is ludicrous!  There has to be some OTHER way
to make other sports profitable or to spend LESS.

I think (hope) that is what will be discussed at the meetings.
If ticket prices go much higher, I might have to give up my ticket.
Seriously....  All the games are on TV anyway (well almost all of them)

I don't want to be forced to give up my ticket to support the
ENTIRE Athletic program.  :-(

-Carol
GO Gophers!!!

"Benjamin J. Flickinger" wrote:

> I'm curious about the funding for Minnesota's athletic department. Does it
> receive state aid, or is it supposed to be self-sufficient like U of Nebraska's
> or U of Michigan's? If the latter, then there's no reason to complain, they
> need the hockey money to pay for other sports for Title IX reasons. But either
> way, NCAA d1 athletics is a big business now, and colleges need all the cash
> flow they can get to stay competitive on a facilities and salary basis.
>
> Many people in Nebraska, especially educators, often complain about Frank
> Solich being the highest paid employee of the state of Nebraska. What they fail
> to realize, or more likely do realize but just 'forget' to mention, is that
> Solich's salary isn't paid by the state with tax money, but by all those season
> ticket holders and donors who make Nebraska's athletic department
> self-sufficient, and allow the athletic department to actually gives money to
> the general university fund rather than take from it. If the situation is
> similar at Minnesota, then think of high ticket prices as a way of keeping tax
> money from paying for athletics.