Date Posted:11:32:55 06/27/06 Tue Author: rabidrabbit Subject: Re: Mid-Con expansion-revisited In reply to:
Leatherface
's message, "Mid-Con expansion-revisited" on 17:21:28 05/03/06 Wed
From ORU board posted by my esteemed Rabbit promoter, 89Rabbit:
Re: Mid-Con Expansion.....
« Reply #12 on: June 26, 2006, 06:57:05 PM »
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A couple of things that your associate athletic director said in the Sunday Fargo Forum story got me thinking “We fully fund every sport in regards to scholarships,” and “My biggest concern is the commitment and desire to want to be good and wanting to be successful with the schools that are already in our league,” Fowler said. “There are some schools within our league already that struggle to fund. This possible expansion may be a wakeup call for our current league members.” about the athletic budgets of the 5 schools under consideration. These figures are from the US Dept. of Ed. for the school year '04-'05 (the most recent they have)
Again these are older numbers, SDSU's budget for '05-'06 was $7,786,383 and will go higher still in the coming years (the plan is to keep adding scholarships through FY'10), but they do provide a snap shot of where each school was for comparison sake. I will say it might make a heck of a lot of sense to add all 5 as that would provide great travel partners for everyone. We should know more tomorrow.
Just for fun, here are the current members of the Mid-Con ('04-'05)
ORU - $7,513,752
WIU - $7,150,821
UMKC - $6,748,548
OU - $6,079,614
CC - $4,690,030
SUU - $4,317,587
IUPUI - $3,775,144
I think everyone needs to realize that these are older numbers. I know that the athletic budget for IPFW is 5.4 million for next year and has increased significantly each year of Division I. This is the case with most of the independents. Conversely, the existing mid-con members budgets are more stable and have not increased dramatically over the last three years.
If we compare apples to apples it appears the NDSt spends about $500,000 dollars more than WIU! Do you think that is travel? I wonder what the sport comparison is?
