Cost of Attendance, 2015-2016 season

[blackswampboy]

Re: Cost of Attendance, 2015-2016 season

while NCAA schools generate billions of dollars in athletic revenue?

or in the case of many schools, negative net revenue that requires subsidies--including an ever-increasing slice of student general fees.
in 2014, athletics at BGSU generated a loss of $564,000 and every full-time student subsidized that loss with $821.70 from their general fees. We shall see how the additional projected $470,500 cost for CoA affects general fees assessed to ordinary students...

 

[Ballroomblitz]

Re: Cost of Attendance, 2015-2016 season

or in the case of many schools, negative net revenue that requires subsidies--including an ever-increasing slice of student general fees.
in 2014, athletics at BGSU generated a loss of $564,000 and every full-time student subsidized that loss with $821.70 from their general fees. We shall see how the additional projected $470,500 cost for CoA affects general fees assessed to ordinary students...

I tried to do the math on that one and cannot figure it out, can you elaborate?

$564,000 (Full loss) divided by $821.70 (Full time student loss) would give 686 Full time students. Can this be correct or am I missing a critical factor here?

 

[blackswampboy]

Re: Cost of Attendance, 2015-2016 season

I tried to do the math on that one and cannot figure it out, can you elaborate?

$564,000 (Full loss) divided by $821.70 (Full time student loss) would give 686 Full time students. Can this be correct or am I missing a critical factor here?

I didn't mean to suggest that student fees evened the balance.
But I will correct my comment about "ever-increasing" student fees: for 2015, 63% ($12,282,708) of the athletic department’s $19,303,808 expected revenue budget comes from student general fees. To the university's credit, that is actually a smaller % than 2014 (down from 70%). Still, a heavy burden on students.
For this season, CoA is apparently largely covered by playing only five home football games and taking an extra guarantee from playing Tennessee in Nashville. The AD has stated that extra road games are not a likely scenario going forward.

 

[joecct]

Re: Cost of Attendance, 2015-2016 season

Something just changed. A court decision just came out that affected the CoA. Trying to wade theough it.

Rick Westhead on twitter is posting excerpts.

 

[blackswampboy]

Re: Cost of Attendance, 2015-2016 season

The St. Cloud Times reports (http://on.sctimes.com/1MG3krH) that St. Cloud State will pay cost of attendance starting in Fall 2016 for men's and women's hockey.

 

[blackswampboy]

Re: Cost of Attendance, 2015-2016 season

Something just changed. A court decision just came out that affected the CoA. Trying to wade theough it.

Rick Westhead on twitter is posting excerpts.

I'm no lawyer, but it sounds like the ruling upholds CoA.

“Today, we reaffirm that N.C.A.A. regulations are subject to antitrust scrutiny and must be tested in the crucible of the Rule of Reason,” the appeals panel wrote in what is known as the O’Bannon case.
“In this case,” it added, “the N.C.A.A.’s rules have been more restrictive than necessary to maintain its tradition of amateurism in support of the college sports market. The Rule of Reason requires that the N.C.A.A. permit its schools to provide up to the cost of attendance to their student athletes. It does not require more.”

 

[Split-N]

Re: Cost of Attendance, 2015-2016 season

The St. Cloud Times reports (http://on.sctimes.com/1MG3krH) that St. Cloud State will pay cost of attendance starting in Fall 2016 for men's and women's hockey.

So a mid-size school with limited revenue sources running a $9.5 million (and presumably growing) deficit has fallen for the fraud that is COA. How do they propose to pay for it? (Maybe close down the Physics Dept?) Another example of the athletic tail wagging the institutional dog!