The Chronicle of Higher Education reported on a group, Playoff PAC, which has filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service about the Orange Bowl paying for a gathering of several dozen athletic directors, conference commissioners, and their spouses aboard a Caribbean cruise ship. Playoff PAC filed a broader complaint in September, alleging various abuses…
Bloomberg News reported on the cost to schools in the highest competitive division in the NCAA for their football teams playing in bowl games. According to the article, at least 13 schools spent more to play in a football bowl game than their athletic conferences received in compensation. According to figures from public universities where…
USA Today recently published an article detailing the significant increase in the amount of football coaching salaries, including assistant coaches, from bonuses and other incentives. The paper investigated salaries at 89 institutions, including the two institutions whose football teams will play in the Bowl Championship Series title game: the University or Oregon and Auburn University. …
USA Today published its annual football coaches’ salary report on December 8. It includes discussion about Fresno State’s Pat Hill, who accepted a reduction in guaranteed pay from $952,000 to $650,000 as a result of the institution’s overall budget woes. The headline points out that Hill’s situation is “a rarity.” The report includes five articles and a…
Revenues from the members of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) totaled more than $1 billion in 2009-10, making the college athletic conference the first to cross the $1 billion mark, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. The Chronicle considered data from the US Department of Education to total the revenue of the athletic departments at…
The Board of Directors of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB) voted at its board meeting November 12 to endorse the recent report issued by the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, Restoring the Balance: Dollars, Values, and the Future of College Sports. The report advocates strengthening intercollegiate athletics in three ways,…
Amy Perko, executive director of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, responded to an inquiry from the Atlanta Journal Constitution about the use of student fees to pay for college sports. Her response was published on September 30. Perko stated: “The commission’s fundamental position is there needs to be transparency with institutional fees going to…
In the September/October issue of Trusteeship, just in time for football season, read about how rising athletic expenses are becoming a destabilizing force for many institutions. William E. “Brit” Kirwan and R. Gerald Turner show you how the game is changing: “The trends do not look good. Last year, the 10 public FBS institutions with…
USA Today published an article on September 22 in which it investigated the extent that student fees were being used to help fund the expenses in college athletics. As reported, many institutions do not itemize how student fees are used. Through its own analysis, USA Today found the amounts going to athletics are soaring, and…
This opinion by Knight Commission co-chairs William E. “Brit” Kirwan and R. Gerald Turner was published in the September 17, 2010 edition of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “The college sports offseason was filled with news of record-breaking television revenues, lucrative multibillion-dollar television contracts and a reshuffling of athletic conference affiliations designed, in part, to maximize television…