Great article on D1/FCS Funding-Rhody only NE school with no student fees?

[Little Stevie]

This is crazy on Rhodys part?
Over $1M per yr. here?
Wonder what gives?

[Little Stevie]

http://www.masslive.com/umass/2017/07/college_athletics_spending_see.html

here link,sorry

[Lehigh Football Nation]

It seems to be more of an accounting trick than anything.


URI is the first New England-based program where student fees do not contribute toward athletic department revenue, which has been the case since 2009.

School funding ($20.8 million) makes up most of URI’s revenues. It spent $9.62 million on coaches in 2016 and $8.6 million in scholarships.

Let's say there's a law stipulating that you can't use "student fees" to pay for athletics. But you pay tuition to go to a school. So a school could, say, increase general tuition by, say, $1,000, and then "fund" the athletic department directly from the school.

[ccd494]

Maine’s seen a significant drop in ticket sales over the last 11 years, falling from $1.78 million in 2005 to $993,090 last season. In turn, school funding is up to $14.28 million, more than double its total in 2005.

This is why you fire coaches in revenue sports who send their programs into a tailspin:

17 straight winning seasons, 2 national titles, 9 Frozen Fours and 14 NCAA appearances (one vacated) preceded the above mentioned 2005 date. And then:

2004-05 Tim Whitehead 20-13-7 NCAA Tournament
2005-06 Tim Whitehead 28-12-2 NCAA Frozen Four
2006-07 Tim Whitehead 23-15-2 NCAA Frozen Four
2007-08 Tim Whitehead 13-18-3
2008-09 Tim Whitehead 13-22-4
2009-10 Tim Whitehead 19-17-3
2010-11 Tim Whitehead 17-12-7
2011-12 Tim Whitehead 23-14-3 NCAA Tournament
2012-13 Tim Whitehead 11-19-8
2013-14 Red Gendron 16-15-4
2014-15 Red Gendron 14-22-3
2015-16 Red Gendron 8-24-6
2016-17 Red Gendron 11-21-4

[Little Stevie]

Lehigh-at one point during recession the tuition was frozen? Assuming you are correct-what were the student fees towards athletics prior to 2009 vs. tuition increase since?

[hktribefan]

With Rhody, I guess you get what you pay for?

[cx500d]

With Rhody, I guess you get what you pay for?

Apparently you get nothing, because this is what it said:

University of Rhode Island
Rhody ranks 111th in revenues across the country. Like UNH, Rhode Island does not field an FCS football program. URI is the first New England-based program where student fees do not contribute toward athletic department revenue, which has been the case since 2009.
School funding ($20.8 million) makes up most of URI’s revenues. It spent $9.62 million on coaches in 2016 and $8.6 million in scholarships.
In all, URI athletics makes $26.63 million in revenue and spends $26.17 million.

[hktribefan]

Apparently you get nothing, because this is what it said:

University of Rhode Island
Rhody ranks 111th in revenues across the country. Like UNH, Rhode Island does not field an FCS football program. URI is the first New England-based program where student fees do not contribute toward athletic department revenue, which has been the case since 2009.
School funding ($20.8 million) makes up most of URI’s revenues. It spent $9.62 million on coaches in 2016 and $8.6 million in scholarships.
In all, URI athletics makes $26.63 million in revenue and spends $26.17 million.


Well that article has some errors since both UNH and Rhody have programs, but Rhody is in a sorry state.


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[Sader87]

Pretty sure the writer meant "FBS" (as UConn and UMass have)....so many people still screw up these designations.

[cx500d]

Pretty sure the writer meant "FBS" (as UConn and UMass have)....so many people still screw this up these designations.

At least they didn't call them division II


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