Doublespeak on Where the Money comes from to Pay Enormous Coaches' Salaries

[tornado]

State schools are getting less and less government funding.

because the massive, bankrupt car manufacturers are getting it all and wasting it away

[SFP]

because the massive, bankrupt car manufacturers are getting it all and wasting it away

Now that is another topic of conversation all together. Who says the lobbyist are not running DC?

I'm not even getting into what is a public education and how it is subsidized compared to a private one. Again the mathematics is quite simple! A public school receives the majority of its revenue through public means and private through private hands. Both are necessary for society in the long run but to say that coaches salary are not somehow connected to taxpayers money is ridiculous. I can say that our coaches salary are in no way connected to taxpayers money. Any grant we receive is for a specific project or student which is used for the general fund. BU's sports program is self sufficient through the basketball program's revenue and from private donations. The same cannot be said for most public institutions.

[QPS]

Again the mathematics is quite simple! A public school receives the majority of its revenue through public means and private through private hands.

Not exactly correct. Public universities do not get most of their revenues from the goverment.

Here is a summary of U of I's revenue. The biggest school in the state and as the flagship university certainly the school most likely to be on the receiving end of any givernment $$. Less than half of their budget is covered by the government.

http://www.uillinois.edu/our/publications/pdfs/PocketFacts09.pdf#page=14

Public universities will get more than private universities from the government but the publics no longer receive the majority of their funding from the state.

[SFP]

Not exactly correct. Public universities do not get most of their revenues from the goverment.

Here is a summary of U of I's revenue. The biggest school in the state and as the flagship university certainly the school most likely to be on the receiving end of any givernment $$. Less than half of their budget is covered by the government.

http://www.uillinois.edu/our/publications/pdfs/PocketFacts09.pdf#page=14

Public universities will get more than private universities from the government but the publics no longer receive the majority of their funding from the state.

Their whole infrastructure is owned by the state which as an investment from the state is not accounted for! There are a few public schools that probably fall within this category of receiving large revenue pool through an endowment but the vast majority of public institutions could not operate without state funding and the vast majority of their funds come from state funding. The public schools that tend to be closer to self sufficiency are the U of Mich and UVa types which have created networks outside of the public community to foster additional revenue. In other words they are creating revenue through private investment to generate revenue.

I had a talk with the CIO of the University of California at Berkeley regarding funding for the different colleges within his University and you would be surprised how some of that revenue is distributed. Let's just say the college of liberal arts depends on a large amount of their operating budget from the state while the law school and business school have a large endowment in which to operate thier respective college. So I bet if you look into U of Il you would see some of the same distribution pattern. The haves and have nots!

[tornado]

I found this news article intruiguing....

http://gazetteonline.com/sports/iowa-hawkeyes-sports/2009/08/04/iowa-uni-athletics-budgets-to-decrease

"Northern Iowa??™s athletics budget will decrease by 2.4 percent to $11.55 million,
down from $11.83 million. The athletics department will receive nearly $4.63
million in university general support, down 14.6 percent."

tough that UNI is getting their athletic dept. budget cut...
but also a clear admission that they get a HUGE hunk of their money direct from the taxpayers of the state and it's called "university general support".

Now, one more time...can one of those who claim the athletic depts. are self sufficient, please explain this one to me?