(10-06-2011 08:31 PM)Buccaneerlover Wrote: Alright, I've got one really good question for all of Dave's boys on here.
How much money in dollars, comes from the student maintenance fees to go towards athletics? I'm not talking about the Athletic Fees that 100 percent goes towards athletics, or the activities fees that a percentage goes towards athletics, but you can tell us that figure too. I'm talking about the primary maintenance fee that's on a tuition bill.
You see, I have a gut feeling that the students are financing proably close to 90 percent of the almost 11 million dollars being blown on ETSU athletics.
Answer me those questions, in DOLLAR AMOUNTS. No percentages, percentages can be ran through the spin zone, and this is a no spin zone.
Sorry to disappoint you guys, I'm not one of Dave's minions... but I can give you the breakdown that you are asking for:
The "student maintenance fee" (or you might know it as tuition) is something that all students pay (out of state students also have a "tuition" attached). This "fee" that then goes from the "General Fund" to Athletics is done by a funding formula. The general fund support amounts for ETSU for the last five years are as follows:
FY 2010 - $4,104,250
FY 2009 - $4,085,200
FY 2008 - $4,234,400
FY 2007 - $3,915,100
FY 2006 - $3,777,700
This is according to Renee' Stewart, Assistant Vice Chancellor, Business & Finance at the Tennessee Board of Regents.
I don't have the current F11 allocation but the census date has passed and I'm sure that data is available.
The other "big" item assessed to students is the restricted fee, as of last year, that fee sat at $250 per year for full-time students (not FTE's like the other allocation is done)
East Tennessee 10-11= $250; 09-10= $200; 08-09= $150 07-08= $150 06-07= $150
I'll just attach the document from THEC showing all the TBR/UT schools. I've given this to several people including people who post on here, so you may have seen this breakdown before.
There's also a "student debt service" that has been paying for the majority of the new construction going on. The "fundraising" has been "nice" for soccer and some of the the other projects BUT the majority has been paid by the reallocation of the MiniDome sunken bond/debt service assessment to other athletics projects. I'm sure there's some top secret plan in place to divert that money at some point to build a basketball arena, but I've not been around enough to know.
I'm not going to get into a slinging match on here with Slappy, Mike, and others. I'm passed all that and in a good place with myself, my family, and my own piece of mind. Everyone is entitled to an "opinion" so here's mine.
I do not support what's gone on with Athletics at ETSU. It's a bad business model that does nothing for the University other than expend funds. There's virtually no visibility for Athletics outside of the internally generated-feel good things that we have handed out. That's a shame, IMHO, because I've always considered ETSU "home" and it hurts me to hear people talk about ETSU in snickers and laughs.
I travel pretty extensively and maybe it's just the folks that I associate with, YOU KNOW: College-educated, in-the-loop, people who would be at a ballgame types of people. It always depresses me when I tell people that I graduated from ETSU and ASU and I hear these two things: "Ohh, ASU is the team that beat Michigan AND isn't ETSU the school that dropped football?" I swear! It makes me sad to ALWAYS have that line thrown at me!