[Vision2020] Skewed Priorities or Business as Usual?

[Wayne Price]

Thanks Nick,

I was afraid that the numbers were that bad, and what you have  
provided confirms it.

Wayne






On Jun 10, 2010, at 9:59 AM, Gier, Nicholas wrote:

> Hi Wayne:
>
> I've written two columns on UI athletics and they can be found at www.class.uidaho.edu/ngier/athletics.htm 
>   I did not focus on number of scholarships but I did find a some  
> dollar amounts.  Full ride athletic scholarships (for I believe  
> about 300 students) account for more than half the privately funded  
> scholarships granted to UI students. Below you will find an excerpt  
> from my second column.
>
> Something I need to add to the column is the fact that athletic  
> spending per student at UI ($917) is greater than the average of its  
> conference the WAC($824), much larger than BSU ($593), and far  
> greater than the PAC-10 ($359).
>
> Here is the excerpt:
>
> Since 1997 all UI departments have paid an administrative fee on all  
> external funds to the central administration. The fee has now risen  
> to 8 percent, but athletics only pays 3 percent. From 2001-2004  
> athletics paid no administrative fee at all, claiming that it had to  
> reach gender equity goals, while all other units paid 5 percent.  
> What is odd about this excuse is that UI athletics has received  
> gender equity money from the Legislature, starting with $115,000 in  
> 1997 and growing to $809,266 this year (FY09).
>
> Many other departments could give much better reasons why they too  
> should be exempt from this administrative fee. Auxiliary services  
> and facilities management generate lots of external funds, and they  
> could very well argue that their salaries, 19 percent of which are  
> below the poverty level, should rise before they are required to pay  
> the fee.
>
> The athletic department has also defended its low administrative fee  
> by boasting it returns $2.5 million back to the university in  
> tuition, fees, room and board for scholarship students. Over half  
> these scholarships, however, are funded by the state. Private  
> scholarship funds for all UI colleges total $4.1 million, so they  
> have yet another good reason to have a lower administrative fee.
>
> Nick
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wayne Price [mailto:bear at moscow.com]
> Sent: Thu 6/10/2010 8:28 AM
> To: vision2020 2020
> Cc: Gier, Nicholas
> Subject: Skewed Priorities or Business as Usual?
>
> This article that is in the Idaho Statesman  raises more questions
> than it answers.
> First, why are we keeping a football coach that failed to meet the
> minimum NCAA Academic Progress Rate?
> The national AVERAGE is 940, passing is 925. Every UW athletic program
> had a score of 948 or higher, and
> even  all of Eastern Washington's athletic programs passed!
> And think about this,  there will be 79 "scholarships" JUST FOR THE
> FOOTBALL TEAM, not the 85 they could have had!
> How many (total) "sports/athletic"  scholarships are there if the
> football team alone gets 79/85??????????
>
> For anyone on the Vision 2020 list with information about U of I,  how
> many scholarships, equal to the sports scholarships, is the U of I
> awarding
> for Math? Physics? Biology? etc etc..........  Any thing you can add
> Nick?
>
> The University is in a real hurt for funding, and it is my
> understanding that the Athletics Department has not participated in
> the across the board
> reductions, and we get these kinds of results?  IF the University
> Administration is content with this kind of performance, why hasn't
> the Board of Regents
> stepped in?
>
> Time to clean up and clean OUT.
>
>
>
> Idaho football sanctioned by NCAA
>   - The Associated Press
> Published: 06/09/10
>
> BOISE, Idaho - The University of Idaho football team will lose six
> scholarships for failing to meet the minimum scores on the NCAA's
> annual Academic Progress Rate reports.
> The APR measures classroom performance and is based on data collected
> over four years, in this case from the 2005-06 through 2008-09 years.
> The report was released Wednesday.
> Programs must receive a score of 925 or above to avoid sanctions.
> Idaho's football team received a 908 score, resulting in a one-year
> loss of six scholarships. The Vandals will operate with 79
> scholarships during the 2010 season, short of the maximum 85.
>
>
> Read more: http://www.idahostatesman.com/2010/06/09/1224584/idaho-football-sanctioned-by-ncaa.html#ixzz0qSlnZVHv
>
>
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