tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-681960054675544612024-03-13T12:46:27.434-07:00Athletic Budget BreakdownAlissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16760105528150939271noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68196005467554461.post-61334744322220616832011-04-27T19:30:00.001-07:002011-04-28T09:10:20.957-07:00Breaking Down the Budget<div style="font: 11.0px Minion Pro; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The proposed Bowling Green State University Athletics budget for 2011 is $16 million — 9.32 percent larger than last year — but the additional funds still will not cover the projected $16.2 million in expenses.</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Minion Pro; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">To close that gap as much as possible, Athletics depends on ticket sales, donors, Title IX and merchandising. But nearly two-thirds of the Athletics budget consists of student fees.</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Minion Pro; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">For 2011, students’ general fees are projected to be $683 per semester, according to the BGSU Finance and Administration Department.</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Minion Pro; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Half of that money is allocated to facilities (such as the Bowen-Thompson Student Union), Student Health Service and shuttle services. The other half goes toward Intercollegiate Athletics.</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Minion Pro; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Including employee benefits, total salary expenses for personnel are projected to be $6.3 million in 2011, a 2.55 percent increase from last year, according to the budget. Operating expenses are expected to be about $9.8 million, a 6.77 percent increase. </span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Minion Pro; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“You don’t generate that (much money) in ticket sales,” said Jim Elsasser, associate athletic director for Internal Affairs.</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Minion Pro; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Most of what student fees cover are athletic scholarships, including tuition, room and board and meal plan for a majority of the student athletes, said Greg Christopher, director of Athletics.</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Minion Pro; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> “In general terms, we get about $9 million a year (from student fees),” Christopher said. “About $6 million goes back to the university, and the largest form of that is scholarships.”</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Minion Pro; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The other $3 million Athletics gets from student fees is used to pay for staff members, coaches, travel costs and some operating costs, such as “to keep the lights on in the building,” Christopher said.</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Minion Pro; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">But Christopher said most student-fee money is used to pay for salaries and scholarships, and the budget does include $9 million not dependent on student fees.</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Minion Pro; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Elsasser said most Mid-American Conference schools are funded the same way.</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Minion Pro; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“None of our sports make any money,” he said. “And that would be the case for 90 percent of Division I institutions.”</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Minion Pro; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">But Elsasser said BGSU uses less student-fee money to run its sports teams than most other schools.</span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Minion Pro; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">And while student fees make up a majority of the athletic budget, those fees can’t pay for the entire budget because the amount of money generated from students fluctuates each year.</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Minion Pro; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"></span></div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="font: 11.0px Minion Pro; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“The general fee is only driven by enrollment,” Elsasser said. “So that requires us to look at alternate sources.”</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Minion Pro; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Kerrie Beach, head coach for BGSU women’s gymnastics, has an annual budget of about $38,000, but she spends about $50,000. Like many other teams at BGSU, Beach and her team fundraise to make up the difference, looking mostly to donors.</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Minion Pro; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> “We’re a non-revenue sport,” she said. “We realize that we are not going to bring in thousands of dollars.</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Minion Pro; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“It’s not that I feel like the administration isn’t giving me the support I need. … But it’s always a close call for us, we’re always working hard to get through the year.”</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Minion Pro; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The expectation is that budget cuts will balance out the deficit, Elsasser said, but not enough cuts have been made to make up for the loss.</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Minion Pro; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“We carry a deficit balance from year to year,” he said.</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Minion Pro; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Last year, total expenses surpassed total revenue by $740,202, according to the budget. Next year, Athletics is expected to lose about $155, 980.</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Minion Pro; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">And while Athletics does generate money from selling tickets, ticket sales are only projected to bring in $1.5 million of the $16 million budget next year. Not every seat is filled at every game, and not every sport sells tickets, such as soccer and baseball.</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Minion Pro; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“Some of the (sport) facilities aren’t conducive (to selling tickets) … there’s no exterior gate,” Elsasser said. “We just thought it would be better to have an open environment, encourage people to come in.”</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Minion Pro; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Another way Athletics brings in money is through game guarantees. For example, last year, the University of Michigan paid BGSU $800,000 to play one football game in Michigan.</span></span></div><div style="font: 11.0px Minion Pro; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Typically, Elsasser said, BGSU has one game guarantee per year. The game guarantee for 2011 will bring in a projected $1.2 million.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Minion Pro'; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br />
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</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><div style="font: 11.0px Minion Pro; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Each year, the federal government gives Bowling Green State University $201,000 for “Title IX Support,” according to the Athletics budget. All BGSU does to get the money is follow the law.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Title IX, which was passed in 1972, requires gender equality in every educational program that receives federal funding, according to titleix.info.</span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: -0.6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In the minds of many, Title IX and women’s athletics go hand in hand. But the law was originally intended for academics, said Nancy Spencer, an associate professor in BGSU’s Sport-Management department. </span></span></div></div><div style="font: 11.0px Minion Pro; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“[Title IX] was passed to look at positions in education and said that all educational opportunities had to be equal for women as well as for men. It was almost an afterthought that sports would be included in it,” she said.</span></span></div></div><div style="font: 11.0px Minion Pro; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Still, Spencer said, Title IX tends to get blamed for budget cuts in athletics, and it puts BGSU in a tough position when it has to cut sports. Normally, she said, a school would cut whichever sports lose the most money. But because of Title IX, BGSU doesn’t have a lot of leeway when it comes to cutting women’s sports, even if they are less cost-effective than some men’s sports.</span></span></div></div><div style="font: 11.0px Minion Pro; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Title IX is a three-pronged piece of legislation, said Lesley Irvine, associate athletic director and senior woman administrator at BGSU. In order to receive federal funding, schools only have to meet one of the three criteria. </span></span></div></div><div style="font: 11.0px Minion Pro; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"></span></div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="font: 11.0px Minion Pro; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The first criterion is a commitment to equality in opportunities for men and women. This requires schools to make plans and show they are taking steps toward expanding opportunities for women.</span></span></div></div><div style="font: 11.0px Minion Pro; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The second criterion involves participation opportunities in relation to population. For example, if 56 percent of a school’s populations is female, 56 percent of athletes should be female and 56 percent of athletic resources should go toward women’s sports.</span></span></div></div><div style="font: 11.0px Minion Pro; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The third Title IX criterion involves addressing the needs of women. For example, if there is a group on campus, such as a women’s lacrosse team, that asks to become a varsity sport, the request should be carefully considered instead of nonchalantly pushed aside.</span></span></div></div><div style="font: 11.0px Minion Pro; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“As long as you can check one of those boxes, you are technically compliant,” Irvine said. “But it’s one of those things that all three of them are good things and we should be doing them anyway.”</span></span></div></div><div style="font: 11.0px Minion Pro; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">When sports do need to be cut, Irvine said, more than just Title IX and even revenue in general is taken into account.</span></span></div></div><div style="font: 11.0px Minion Pro; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“As an educational institution, we’re trying to provide opportunities for the student athletes that go way beyond whether the sport is producing money or not,” she said.</span></span></div></div><div style="font: 11.0px Minion Pro; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">As head coach of a women’s sport at BGSU, Andy Richards said he has never feared his team will be eliminated. He thinks women’s soccer is “probably lower down on the list” of sports that would be first to go.</span></span></div></div><div style="font: 11.0px Minion Pro; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“I know there have been cuts over the years, but they were necessary at the time,” he said. “I’ve never felt threatened.</span></span></div></div><div style="font: 11.0px Minion Pro; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“Soccer is such a popular sport, [and] it’s pretty low in maintenance as far as cost, so I don’t really worry about that.”</span></span></div></div><div style="font: 11.0px Minion Pro; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Associate Athletic Director for Internal Affairs Jim Elsasser said that BGSU does not differentiate between sports and treats all varsity sports equally, whether for men or women. Some sports just require more money than others, he said.</span></span></div></div><div style="font: 11.0px Minion Pro; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12.0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“We’re committed to all 18 sports,” Elsasser said. “We’re always looking to spend in effective ways with the money provided.”</span></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></span></div><div class="Normal" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 24pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 36pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria, Arial;"></span><br />
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