.....do you know the ranking of big10 coaches salaries? the link below does not reflect recent increases of coaches but schiano's pay current pay is not outrageous....
Is the football program not self sustaining? You're suggesting that they pay the football coaches less to help cover the losses from other programs? Then when we get our asses kicked revenues go down more driving deficit higher?
It’s well-known that Rutgers had been under funding athletics for a long time, despite competing in the big east, and that it had the biggest transition to make, which was exacerbated by going to the Big Ten. It’s all very predictable and there’s no mystery. It appears that, at a minimum, UCLA, as it transitions into the Big Ten, will be spending more than Rutgers on athletics next year.
Yes, let’s pass a law that says Rutgers is the only college in New Jersey not allowed to spend money on intercollegiate athletics.
Here's a truth that some people refuse to see
Jon did not include the fact that all B1G programs run in the black, except Rutgers and Maryland.
Fiscal 2022 athletic department operating expenses
NCAA Bylaw 20.2.4.17.1 requires division one universities to submit a annual athletics department financial report audited by an independent accountant and certified by the university president or chancellor.
can you show us a breakdown of Rutgers's "operating expenses" ? I'd love to see the elements driving this number.
The NCAA financial statement contains 88 pages of figures. I'm not going to retype hundreds of operating expense line items here.
you spent more time on your reply then what I was really asking for in the original ask lol. I figured you had some summary data. I would never ask you to go into THAT much detail lol.
According to who? I think the vast majority of the population would disagree with you. If the music department was losing millions of dollars a year while paying the band director $3 million a year do you think people would just accept the university is SUPPOSED to be supporting music? Would you be ok with raising tuition so the band can have three sets of uniforms? Would you be ok with cutting funds to the health science programs so the music department can hire a new flute teacher for $1 million a year salary? Would you not question the music department spending if the two highest university employees were the Marching Band Director and band front coach at the same time they cutting faculty positions?
If flute playing was the most popular thing in the country, and the quality of the flute players drove up applications and selectivity of the university, and hundreds of thousands came out to watch the flute team, and if because of all these reasons there was intense demand for flute teachers and other flute teachers made 1 mil, then it would be expected that we would do that also.
When it comes to a University running a deficit
Those BS excuses have proven wrong time and time again. Yes school do tend to have a small bump when winning things like the national championship but those are very minor compared to other influences on applications. They certainly do not match the amount of funding spent on college athletics.
Who said they should be closed? My point is that spending should be better controlled. If schools are running deficits they should make cuts. Penn State is a perfect example of deficit due to outrageous spending. They should not be building an $85 million art museum while facing a $140 deficit. The new president should have canned this project on day 1. There are many other projects, admin salaries and staffing that should be cut.
I believe this was put out in 2018 going by the works sited section that had this (Sanderson, A. R., & Siegfried, J. J. (2018). The national collegiate athletic association
Maybe your Penn State should move this $386 million to the general funds.
Any idea on how much a Grouo 3 and group 4 high school athletic program costs to run in New Jersey ??? and how much the local school board funds?
Do PSU donors fund the salaries of Franklin, the coordinators and some of the coaches? Just wondering.
You forgot the debt the taxpayers are forced to pay. New Jersey taxpayers paid $11,212,834 in Rutgers athletics facilities debt service last year, according to the NCAA financial statement.
And people could debate that all day and night, ironically, on the Rutgers flute playing message board
