Duluth News Tribune: Could Gopher football scandal block university budget?

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per the Duluth News Tribune:

The University of Minnesota's request to bump up its state funding $147 million comes at a tough time.

The big university news over the past few weeks has been a football scandal, easily topping the team's Holiday Bowl victory. With that fresh in Minnesotans' minds, university officials are hitting up the Legislature for more money.

"It doesn't help," said Jennifer Schultz, a Duluth legislator and University of Minnesota Duluth professor. "Timing wise, it is really bad to get when these fires happen. And we have really had a lot of fires."

The football scandal involved some players allegedly sexually assaulting a women. It came months after allegations revolving around sale and use of drugs by wrestlers.

"I think they are going to want to hear how it is being handled," Chairman Bud Nornes, R-Fergus Falls, said about lawmakers.

"To the public, it appears they are very, very generous with how they pay people," added Nornes, chairman of the House Higher Education Committee. "The public is sensitive to that because nobody is getting paid anywhere close to what they are paying coaches."

http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/4196411-could-gopher-football-scandal-block-university-budget

Go Gophers!!
 

UMN trending toward being the next University of Chicago. Goodbye athletics...welcome Reed College of the midwest.
 


Just think what their opinion would be up at UMD if they were not the most conservative administration the the university system.

(sarcasm)
 




Read the entire article. The portion where the guy from UMD compares coaching college football to conducting the orchestra and does not understand why the football coach should be paid any more than the orchestra conductor. There will always be idiots like this. They refuse to acknowledge the facts. They will refuse to believe the amount of money that is generated by intercollegiate athletics. They will refuse to believe that solid athletics and outstanding academics do not have to be mutually exclusive. They will point to schools that have solid academics but spend little on athletics or do not even have athletics while refusing to acknowledge schools like Notre Dame, Stanford, Northwestern or for that matter Ohio State! These folks could not be more ignorant.
 

JHC. The conference's TV contract for football and basketball is set to bring in over $50M in the 2017-2018 seasons. Ticket sales should be in the $15-20M range for those two sports.

When the orchestra conductor has a media deal and ticket sales that brings in that kind of scratch, he'll be compensated accordingly.
 

IronRanger91 said:
Read the entire article. The portion where the guy from UMD compares coaching college football to conducting the orchestra and does not understand why the football coach should be paid any more than the orchestra conductor. There will always be idiots like this. They refuse to acknowledge the facts. They will refuse to believe the amount of money that is generated by intercollegiate athletics. They will refuse to believe that solid athletics and outstanding academics do not have to be mutually exclusive. They will point to schools that have solid academics but spend little on athletics or do not even have athletics while refusing to acknowledge schools like Notre Dame, Stanford, Northwestern or for that matter Ohio State! These folks could not be more ignorant.
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Add to that that the Director of the Minnesota Orchestra made over $1M in way back in 2009, not including any perqs, recording, or guest appearance money.
 



PMWinSTP said:
Add to that that the Director of the Minnesota Orchestra made over $1M in way back in 2009, not including any perqs, recording, or guest appearance money.
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And of course there was a big brew ha ha about that...(artsy fartsys vs. bean counter types) but I believe there was public money involved....
 

How is it people cannot get the concept that the Football program is a profit center and salaries as well as expenses are paid from the profit like any other business? You have your gross take in minus your expenses and then hopefully there is profit. To profit, you must have a good product. A kid running a lemonade stand knows this. So many people say take the money we spend on athletics and put into education. Saying the legislature will ponder funding based on the insane cost of running athletics is absurd.

Does anyone know how much money from athletics and the leasing of athletic venues as well as Parking services money, filters to the general fund? My guess is several million dollars. How much money is donated to the school outside of athletics when Kaler entertains in his suite at TCF? It is millions.
 

For anyone interested, here's the revenue and expense breakdown for 2015. http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools...5-16/misc_non_event/FY15_Financial_Report.pdf

It included $5.6M in indirect institutional support for athletics as a whole, defined as:

overhead and administrative expenses NOT paid by or charged directly to athletics including:

Administrative/Overhead fees not charged by the institution to athletics.
Facilities maintenance.
Security.
Risk Management.
Utilities.
Equipment Repair.
Telephone.
Other Administrative Expenses.
Do not report depreciation.
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And $1.3M in direct institutional support, defined as:

direct funds provided by the institution to athletics for the operations of intercollegiate athletics including:

Unrestricted funds allocated to the athletics department by the university (e.g. state funds, tuition, tuition waivers, transfers)
Federal work study support for student workers employed by athletics.
Endowment unrestricted income, spending policy distributions and other investment income distributed to athletics in the reporting year to support athletic operations
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Football reported $35.8M in revenue compared to $26.4M in expenses. Men's basketball, $12.9M vs $9.1M.
 

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