(01-07-2020 01:43 PM)UTerry Wrote:  

(01-07-2020 09:17 AM)BearcatMan Wrote:  

(01-07-2020 08:40 AM)UTerry Wrote:  One aspect of the athletic budget is the cost of scholarships.
The athletic department actually pays/transfers money to the finance/bursars office for the tuition of all athletes on scholarship in all sports.
Understandable.....
But I found out some years ago is that if an athlete is from out of state (or out of the country), the athletic department must also pay out of state of Ohio tuition for each one of those athletes.
Is this a UT only practice or done by all universities????
(note: seems like shuffling the shell game to me....)
How much would that cut off the athletic budget if all athletic scholarships were "classified" (not knowing a better word) as in state???

Nope, that's required by the NCAA. Any Full-pay scholarship limits must be paid as such (any that are partial awards can still collect other additional aid and are not allocated as full awards for the AD's budget purposes).

So to clarify your answer, no it's not a Toledo only shell game. The shell game is required by the NCAA. Correct???

I would say that is correct, but I don't really know what the NCAA requires - or why. I'm just going off what was posted - and I believe Bearcat knows that with certainty. I can understand why they want to handle that way, but it is not something I would use to make decisions from. Allocations and charge-outs are the "shell game" you are referring to - and those usually end up resulting in the absence of accountability for increased spending. Then the answer is to go out and try to raise more money to cover the ever expanding costs of a University that has expanded it's footprint over the years, but has seen very little increase in the number of students.

Ever take a look at the number of administrators in all of the departments? It's mind blowing.