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Irresponsible overspending in Athletics hurts the entire University!
An EIU professor, a very bright chemistry prof, studied their own athletic dpartment overspending problem in EIU athletics and presented &
points out how it hurts the entire university and ends up causing severe & widespread FALLOUT
"Frankly, we’re in trouble (we - as an entire University) financially at this point,” Blitz said. “Can we really continue to afford this?”
"...some people believe the athletic department is self-sustaining, when in reality, the amount of money Eastern gives to the athletic department pays for anywhere between two-thirds or three-fourths of the athletic budget.
".. measures have to be taken. Some have said that Eastern should no longer be a Division I school, which Blitz said some faculty members
agree with.
“My preferred mention would be to take away all of their appropriated funds and cut their budget.... they should be penalized for overspending their budget.
“They are not being penalized for it,” Blitz said. “Their budget ought to be cut.”
“They don’t tell anybody anything,” Blitz said. “We didn’t know, the university community, did not know that athletics overspent their budget... it was all hidden.”
...wow .... they have a bright chem prof who is finally sounding the alarm, just like we have a great bunch of bright people in the BradleyFans community that did the same.
An EIU professor, a very bright chemistry prof, studied their own athletic dpartment overspending problem in EIU athletics and presented &
points out how it hurts the entire university and ends up causing severe & widespread FALLOUT
"Frankly, we’re in trouble (we - as an entire University) financially at this point,” Blitz said. “Can we really continue to afford this?”
"...some people believe the athletic department is self-sustaining, when in reality, the amount of money Eastern gives to the athletic department pays for anywhere between two-thirds or three-fourths of the athletic budget.
".. measures have to be taken. Some have said that Eastern should no longer be a Division I school, which Blitz said some faculty members
agree with.
“My preferred mention would be to take away all of their appropriated funds and cut their budget.... they should be penalized for overspending their budget.
“They are not being penalized for it,” Blitz said. “Their budget ought to be cut.”
“They don’t tell anybody anything,” Blitz said. “We didn’t know, the university community, did not know that athletics overspent their budget... it was all hidden.”
...wow .... they have a bright chem prof who is finally sounding the alarm, just like we have a great bunch of bright people in the BradleyFans community that did the same.