03-01-2015, 10:55 AM
03-01-2015, 11:03 AM
Justin Knox.
Didn't sound like a big deal. He missed a deadline. I'm sure that happens a lot.
Didn't sound like a big deal. He missed a deadline. I'm sure that happens a lot.
03-01-2015, 12:39 PM
Oops, Justin
03-01-2015, 06:27 PM
Universities, state or private, are businesses and they generally follow business practices. When a scholarship athlete presents himself for admission, he is as good as "money in the bank". And if he/she is an "out of state" student, that is even better since that is even more money for the school. In most schools, there is not a more dependable source of funds than its own Athletic Department which usually has plenty of money for its players (student athletes) with an average annual outlay even at the FCS level of over $50,000 per athlete (Delta Cost Project figures). (UA and AU report spending over $200,000 annually per athlete and are still "in the black")
03-01-2015, 08:03 PM
(03-01-2015 06:27 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote: [ -> ]Universities, state or private, are businesses and they generally follow business practices. When a scholarship athlete presents himself for admission, he is as good as "money in the bank". And if he/she is an "out of state" student, that is even better since that is even more money for the school. In most schools, there is not a more dependable source of funds than its own Athletic Department which usually has plenty of money for its players (student athletes) with an average annual outlay even at the FCS level of over $50,000 per athlete (Delta Cost Project figures). (UA and AU report spending over $200,000 annually per athlete and are still "in the black")
Nonsense. I have never heard that they spend that much. You must have read that on some message board.
03-01-2015, 09:17 PM
(03-01-2015 08:03 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote: [ -> ](03-01-2015 06:27 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote: [ -> ]Universities, state or private, are businesses and they generally follow business practices. When a scholarship athlete presents himself for admission, he is as good as "money in the bank". And if he/she is an "out of state" student, that is even better since that is even more money for the school. In most schools, there is not a more dependable source of funds than its own Athletic Department which usually has plenty of money for its players (student athletes) with an average annual outlay even at the FCS level of over $50,000 per athlete (Delta Cost Project figures). (UA and AU report spending over $200,000 annually per athlete and are still "in the black")
Nonsense. I have never heard that they spend that much. You must have read that on some message board.
The Delta Cost Project is published annually and has been quoted in AL.com and the B'ham NEWS by writers like Kevin Scarbinsky. I first quoted the DCP in 2012 when it showed that the per regular pupil cost difference among the conferences was only about $9,000 top to bottom, while the athletic expenditures ranged from FCS median school of about $50,000 per athlete to the highest - the SEC median school - at $165,000 annually per athlete (over $35,000 more per athlete than the #2 conference's (Big 12) median school).
Since then the annual figures for AU and UA individually have been published in the NEWS at about $200,000 per athlete - reflecting the last figures published in the NEWS that the AU Athletic Dept. took in about $131 million and the UA Athletic Dept. took in about $151 million reported for 2014. Remember that the two school's FB staffs together make around $15 million annually.
College athletics is indeed VERY big business. Since both school's Athletic Departments find ways to use nearly all this money in house, the academic side of both have had to increase tuition and fees by almost 50% since 2008 - just to get by.