If anyone wants an interesting read on the Athletic Department budget vs.
the University, "College Sports, Inc." by Murray Sperber.  He's the English
professor who took on Bob Knight at Indiana while serving on the Athletics
committee.

Sperber's definitely a sports fan, however explains much more in detail
about the "facilities" budget vs. Athletic budgets, shoe contracts and much
of the accounting shifts that occur depending on whether you want to show
"cash cow" athletics vs. "oh poor athletic department" ones.

Look at Maryland for some cutting edge stuff, too.  Like many schools, you
must buy season tickets for 3 sports to get your hoops tickets plus PSL's
for the new arena.  However, AD Debbie Yow even took out insurance contracts
for Ralph Friedgen's bonuses when they won the ACC tourney in the first
year.

Also remember, these bowl numbers hardly ever turn a profit because the
administration sends everyone to the game and must share the lion's share
with the conference -- unless you're ND.

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Hungerford [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 3:13 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: University of Minnesota Sports Revenue / Expenses Numbers


At Michigan, I believe the Athletic Department is also its own thing.  Even
the Michigan Regents find it difficult to get a look at their books.

I've been hearing, like JeffJ that "Michigan AD is broke" for a couple of
years.  It seems all the redocorations of Michigan Stadium that happen
every summer have been totalling their budget.  At least that's the vague
excuse I get every time I ask them about when their Women's Club team will
go DI Varsity!

As TonyB states, yeah I like the idea that my ticket dollar goes to support
other sports.  I sure wasn't going to watch RonnT!  Harvard's AD is under,
and gets funding from FAS, so is part of the Harvard College.

I know JNeal is dead on the money about what the real figures are.  There
are all kinds of ways to make it appear like you are spending more here and
taking in less there.  Like who is paying for the rink maintenance?  Nice
cover when you are sending the Men's team on some "elegant" road trip and
need to make it appear like you are spending a like amount on the Women's
team!

And for those of you interested in PWR estimations:
USCHO's DI + DIII Women's PWR's have been corrected today.
UVM and Colgate had been listed incorrectly in DIII.  In fact UVM was TUC
(team under consideration) for the D3 Frozen4!

personally I thought I was TUC!  happy winter  -Richard




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