Under 50K??? We had a budget of 600K and they rejected it saying no D-I
team could operate on that! We had our numbers from Nebraska-Omaha who
as you know recently started a team and will be joining the CCHA this
upcoming year. UNO had a budget of 286K. I gave the figures to our AD
but got no response.
 
Brian M Cavanaugh wrote:
>
> Date:          Tue, 1 Jun 1999 19:30:19 -0400
> Reply-to:      [log in to unmask]
> From:          Derek Michael Hodgins <[log in to unmask]>
> Organization:  Columbia Design/Syracuse Univ
> Subject:       Syracuse Hockey
> To:            [log in to unmask]
>
> New subject...
>
> Recently, myself along with the rest of the Syracuse University
> ACHA-Division-I team put together a 26-page proposal for the addition of
> men's and women's hockey to Syracuse. In this proposal, we detailed how
> the program would be able to be a revenue generating sport (on top of
> the fact that we ALREADY generate revenue). In talking with Hockey East,
> they expressed that a spot would be open to us if a team was added.
>
> Unfortunately, the SU athletic department, while barring us from the
> formal proceedings, turned down our proposal for budgetary reasons
> saying it was 'completely unreasonable.' After meeting with athletic
> director Jake Crouthamel, and presenting budgetary info from other
> Division-I programs backing up our proposal, no response was given.
>
> Outside of the proposal, I asked our athletic director if there was any
> way in which the athletic department would support the hockey team as an
> 'experiment' to show what a Division-I team could do, especially with
> the basis already there. I was told that we would not get any support
> from them since, with our radio and TV deal along with our merchandising
> through CCM (which we recieve no money from), we were a competitor to
> them.
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> Derek Michael Hodgins
> Columbia Design, Co.
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> Derek -
> I read your post and sympathize with your plight.
>
> Traditional football and basketball schools are a tough sell
> on hockey. I should know.   My experience for the last
> 18 years here at Canisius - a D-I basketball school (and we have
> football too - NCAA IAAAAAA) has been you need to   crawl
> before they will accept any leap to D-I.
> Just getting into varsity 18 years ago was a major step for
> us and we had to agree to limit spending under 50K - that's
> right 50K !!!  Our budget now is less than 100K and we
> do not have a rink.  But, we are varsity and have managed to
> grow slowly into a new MAAC league (that also limits spending).
> Title IX and gender equity also impedes progress for hockey's
> growth at schools with club programs, because,  you have
> to spend for 2 sports - men and women.
>
> Hang in there.
>
> No easy solutions - get hockey alumni involved or a wealthy
> alumni who loves hockey and happens to want the sport
> at Syracuse U.
>
> Brian Cavanaugh
> Head Hockey Coach
> Canisius College  1980 - 1999.
 
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