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Frankly, there is no way that I could have recommended a football program in 2001. It would have been administrative malpractice.
As to what has changed to make football more economically viable:
• Our students have expressed their desire to have a football program and their willingness to pay the lion's share of the cost. This is the single most important difference.
Not all the students want a football program at USA, but they will still be forced to help pay for the lion's share of the cost. This 'addition' will have a particularly harsh impact on those students who are paying their own way through college.
Moulton: Our best estimate is that when the program is fully implemented in four years, the annual budget will be approximately $5 million, about two-thirds of which will be paid for by the student fee.
Students shouldn't be expected to pick up two-thirds of the fee.
Moulton: The key to keeping football, or any other academic or athletic program, from being a financial drain on the University is to make a solid financial plan, be conservative with your revenue estimates and liberal with your cost estimates and budget carefully. In our case, I will tell you unequivocally that if our students had not agreed to fund the majority of the cost, we would have NOT gone forward and the idea would again have died.
Then the idea should be dead in the water. It is unconscionable that all students, even those who loath football and will never attend a game are expected to pay for it. The increased athletic fee will have the greatest impact on those students who are paying for their own education out of pocket, the 'poor fools' who have student loans and will not notice the 'increased fee' until later will realize the high cost of a vanity football team down the road. The only students who will think they got a good deal are those with full scholarships who will never feel the bite of the "increased fees" and those with rich parents willing to foot the bill.
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Moulton on Football at USA
Frankly, there is no way that I could have recommended a football program in 2001. It would have been administrative malpractice.
As to what has changed to make football more economically viable:
• Our students have expressed their desire to have a football program and their willingness to pay the lion's share of the cost. This is the single most important difference.
Not all the students want a football program at USA, but they will still be forced to help pay for the lion's share of the cost. This 'addition' will have a particularly harsh impact on those students who are paying their own way through college.
Moulton: Our best estimate is that when the program is fully implemented in four years, the annual budget will be approximately $5 million, about two-thirds of which will be paid for by the student fee.
Students shouldn't be expected to pick up two-thirds of the fee.
Moulton: The key to keeping football, or any other academic or athletic program, from being a financial drain on the University is to make a solid financial plan, be conservative with your revenue estimates and liberal with your cost estimates and budget carefully. In our case, I will tell you unequivocally that if our students had not agreed to fund the majority of the cost, we would have NOT gone forward and the idea would again have died.
Then the idea should be dead in the water. It is unconscionable that all students, even those who loath football and will never attend a game are expected to pay for it. The increased athletic fee will have the greatest impact on those students who are paying for their own education out of pocket, the 'poor fools' who have student loans and will not notice the 'increased fee' until later will realize the high cost of a vanity football team down the road. The only students who will think they got a good deal are those with full scholarships who will never feel the bite of the "increased fees" and those with rich parents willing to foot the bill.
- It Is Not Fair For Other Students, To "vote Away The Rest Of The People's Money."
Would you like to sign a petition against NCAA Football?" Nadine Mendelsohn-Ziskind, a history student at the University of South Alabama, asks a fellow USA student as he makes his way to his evening class last Wednesday in the Humanities courtyard. ...
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The last thing that Alabama needs is to be saddled with is the expense of another vanity football program at a public university. The USA faculty senate last month voted heavily in favor of football at the Mobile university. Apparently they and other...
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The most fervent argument from the group concerns capital for the team and how the University plans to raise the funds, stating that $150 for a team is unfair to the students who do not want football, and 2,000 signatures does not represent the 14,000...
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Beckyboop explains how racial discrimination in the public schools lead to her decision to homeschool in the post When I first made the decision to homeschool. Then in May I got a letter, completely out of the blue, saying that my child needs to go to...
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