Does anyone know? Texas' budget this year exceeds $107 Million, about the same size as Ohio State's.... except Texas only fields half the sports teams. I think Florida's is over 100 mil this year, also. The article below says Texas averages $225,000 per student athlete. Included in that figure is 200 tutors for 417 athletes... wow, simply wow. If I had had that kinda help at Iowa, I coulda been Valleydicktorian! http://www.statesman.com/sports/content/sports/stories/longhorns/09/30/0930utsportsmain.html
Wow With our athletic success across the board, I thought it would have been much higher. Skip and the staff are getting big bang for the bucks. :thumb:
Funny... from yesterday's opinion page of the American-Statesman... on spending Texas' 107 million dollar budget: "The way things are going, I'm surprised they don't send the offensive line out for a pedicure and a wax job. For real, the athletic department pays about $300 a day for a bus to take the football team from the stadium to the practice field a few blocks away, ostensibly so the pampered players won't hurt their wittle selves on their way to practice. The way the Longhorns stumbled around Saturday against Kansas State, I can see why the coaches are worried that their players can't cross the street without spraining their ankles. The University of Kentucky's athletics department donated $1 million to the school's new library. Last fall, Ohio State's jock department contributed $5 million to the library renovation there. Even Florida, which won national titles in both football and basketball last season, shares the wealth. The University of Florida Athletic Association gave $6 million to cover academic scholarships endangered by state budget cuts. Meanwhile, what is UT doing? Sharing the loot with the rest of the school? Are you crazy? They're spending it on stupid stuff like a $7,000 high-tech system that monitors an athlete's core body temperature. Get a meat thermometer. I've seen hamburger in the Central Market meat case that blocks better than the Longhorns did against K-State. Is it any wonder this team is getting its head handed to it? Talk about mollycoddled. The football team has a players' lounge with a $200,000 renovation that includes four Xboxes, six flat-screen TVs and three PlayStations. Video games? No wonder these babies are losing. Have the team run the stadium stairs instead, and give the savings to a biology professor." John Kelso's column appears on Sundays, Tuesdays and Fridays. Contact him at 445-3606 or [email protected].
I read that just with inflation, the LSU budget increases 2 million per year. I didn't realize that motor home passes in Lot CA on the front row next to South Stadium Drive costs $500 for the season plus a Tradition Fund contribution of $5,500 parking.
I read somewhere that showed that LSU was in the top 10 of athletic departments contributions to academics. I have to go find that list.
