Holmgren article about athletic spending vs K-12 cuts

[WyoBrandX]

Someone or something needs to step up and start capping budgets nationwide. Many of these institutions are receiving federal money for research and at the same time, spending way to much fricking money on coaching salaries.

I used to hate watching the NFL because I thought it was all greed. They have salary caps and budget requirements that level the playing field to all 32 teams. College athletics really needs something similar.

Television networks shouldn't be dictating how money is spent at our educational institutions. Nick Saban makes nearly $7 million a year. The full cost of tuition at Alabama is between 40k and 80k (nonresident). That is alot of money that could go to covering the cost of tuition via scholarships.

There are only a few NFL head coaches making that much money. I hate to even think of the NFL and College colliding like that.

It really is bad out there. Some adults need to step up to the plate and get it under control. Athletics are important at every university. What we see happening today is just waste. Some of these universities should lose their federal tuition and research funding.

 

[ragtimejoe1]

End 1 and done in bball; make it like baseball. Make NFL start a minor league.

 

[Wyokie]

Wyoming schools don't know how good they have it. They should see how it is here in South Dakota. There are parking meters that make more in a day than a teacher in this state.

LOL

It's worse here in Oklahoma for teachers. They barely make any money and yet the district superintendents all make well over $100,000 per year!!!! The state needs to merge school districts to save money in salaries but they won't.

Oh, did I mention Oklahoma is $900 million in the hole budget-wise for everything not just for education????!!!

 

[TSpoke]

I agree with the point some others have been making. Why is it athletics funding at UW vs K-12 funding. Personnally I think they should fund both. LEts look at each line item in the budget and compare it with K-12 funding and write an article of what we should fund.
And I am in no way blaming the Casper Star for writing this article because I have seen other articles and facebook posts about this for the last week about this so they didn't invent this story. If we look through the budget I'm sure each of us could find items that we don't think we should fund while cutting the K-12 budget so I don't know why the UW athletics budget gets singled out.

 

[WYCowboy]

Someone or something needs to step up and start capping budgets nationwide. Many of these institutions are receiving federal money for research and at the same time, spending way to much fricking money on coaching salaries.

I used to hate watching the NFL because I thought it was all greed. They have salary caps and budget requirements that level the playing field to all 32 teams. College athletics really needs something similar.

Television networks shouldn't be dictating how money is spent at our educational institutions. Nick Saban makes nearly $7 million a year. The full cost of tuition at Alabama is between 40k and 80k (nonresident). That is alot of money that could go to covering the cost of tuition via scholarships.

There are only a few NFL head coaches making that much money. I hate to even think of the NFL and College colliding like that.

It really is bad out there. Some adults need to step up to the plate and get it under control. Athletics are important at every university. What we see happening today is just waste. Some of these universities should lose their federal tuition and research funding.

This is very true, but how do we do anything about it? I wrote one of our national legislators about this a few years ago and they didn't want to get involved - something like they had more important things to do.

 

[billings]

Can anyone name a college -without- an athletics program?

There are a lot of non-scholarhip athletic programs where the kids play but get no money. So yes colleges that do not fund athletics are not that rare.

Also I don't think Reed college in Portland, great academically, does not offer a varsity athletic program. only club sports? not 100% on that though

 

[WestWYOPoke]

Can anyone name a college -without- an athletics program?

There are a lot of non-scholarhip athletic programs where the kids play but get no money. So yes colleges that do not fund athletics are not that rare.

Also I don't think Reed college in Portland, great academically, does not offer a varsity athletic program. only club sports? not 100% on that though

Yes, they are called Division III. Big difference between non-scholarship programs and not having an athletic department. I'm sure you probably already knew that, just making sure.

 

[WyoBrandX]

Someone or something needs to step up and start capping budgets nationwide. Many of these institutions are receiving federal money for research and at the same time, spending way to much fricking money on coaching salaries.

I used to hate watching the NFL because I thought it was all greed. They have salary caps and budget requirements that level the playing field to all 32 teams. College athletics really needs something similar.

Television networks shouldn't be dictating how money is spent at our educational institutions. Nick Saban makes nearly $7 million a year. The full cost of tuition at Alabama is between 40k and 80k (nonresident). That is alot of money that could go to covering the cost of tuition via scholarships.

There are only a few NFL head coaches making that much money. I hate to even think of the NFL and College colliding like that.

It really is bad out there. Some adults need to step up to the plate and get it under control. Athletics are important at every university. What we see happening today is just waste. Some of these universities should lose their federal tuition and research funding.

This is very true, but how do we do anything about it? I wrote one of our national legislators about this a few years ago and they didn't want to get involved - something like they had more important things to do.

I really don't know TBH. I guess if someone spent enough time doing the research and was able to demonstrate what the issues are and how it could be improved, you could get the media to start to run with it. I don't think it would be much different than the $8 million match now. The NY Times, the Washington Post could all have a heyday with the numbers. Maybe we should write one of those newspapers with the idea?