ISU and Nationwide Athletic Dept Budget Cutting 2020

[BoxsterCy]

Been seeing quite a few articles on budget cutting as it relates to Covid-19 revenue fallout. Everything from the pathetic token 2% cut the Minnesota Gophers did for their head coaches to real cuts like the 20% Arizona did for their head coaches.

Some pretty sobering scenarios from the Gophers in Star Tribune article today as they are now looking beyond their little 2% PR cut to the top coaches.

Last month, the athletic department laid out three scenarios. The Gophers would lose $10 million even if sports return to normal this fall. That number would reach $30 million if sports are played without fans this fall and $75 million if college sports aren’t played before January.

http://e.startribune.com/Olive/ODN/StarTribune/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=MST/2020/05/09&entity=Ar02100&sk=F17879FA&mode=text

Gophers budget is $123M and they carry 11 men's and 12 women's sports. They say 25 but I think they count Swimming & Divings as separate. NCAA minimum is 7 men/7 women or 6 men/8 women. Sports cuts are on the table for them. That would be pretty obvious even if the AD hadn't come right out and said cuts were on the table.

Similar to Iowa, $125M and 22 sports.

We are probably in bigger trouble in a worst case scenario with out budget of around $83M (2018)** and near the NCAA sports minimum with our 6 men's and 10 women's sports (11 if you do the double count for swimming & diving). As lean as we already are there isn't much to cut.

Lots of stuff on Gopher cut list that could be on ours to. Some sports, like softball, play a lot more games than the NCAA minimum so schedule cuts are possible. Peeps looking hard at cutting travel, especially for northern school spring sports which travel to warmer locales for play.


** Quick google search and was not easy to find an up to date definitive number.

 

[BCClone]

Been seeing quite a few articles on budget cutting as it relates to Covid-19 revenue fallout. Everything from the pathetic token 2% cut the Minnesota Gophers did for their head coaches to real cuts like the 20% Arizona did for their head coaches.

Some pretty sobering scenarios from the Gophers in Star Tribune article today as they are now looking beyond their little 2% PR cut to the top coaches.



http://e.startribune.com/Olive/ODN/StarTribune/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=MST/2020/05/09&entity=Ar02100&sk=F17879FA&mode=text

Gophers budget is $123M and they carry 11 men's and 12 women's sports. They say 25 but I think they count Swimming & Divings as separate. NCAA minimum is 7 men/7 women or 6 men/8 women. Sports cuts are on the table for them. That would be pretty obvious even if the AD hadn't come right out and said cuts were on the table.

Similar to Iowa, $125M and 22 sports.

We are probably in bigger trouble in a worst case scenario with out budget of round $72M and near the NCAA sports minimum with our 6 men's and 10 women's sports. As lean as we already are there isn't much to cut.

Sage made a statement a couple years ago that the ISU AD was sitting on a pile of cash. I hope he was right and that could get us through a poorer year.

Edit: not sure what year your numbers are from, seemed low. Found the 17/18 budget where we were 88 MM. guessing we are over the 90 MM area

 

[theshadow]

Gophers budget is $123M and they carry 11 men's and 12 women's sports. They say 25 but I think they count Swimming & Divings as separate.

Swimming and Diving counts as 1 sport.

Track and Field counts as 2 for each gender due to each season (indoor and outdoor) having its own NCAA championship.

So, at ISU for example, the overall "Track and Cross Country program" counts as 6 of ISU's 18 varsity sports.

 

[JM4CY]

I could be wrong, but this is the kind of stuff that makes me feel much better when considering JP is in charge. He’s squirrel but he’s smarter than some would think. There are some Athletic Dept. run by total nimrods and a crisis of this magnitude would make me real nervous if I was a fan/alumni.

 

[BoxsterCy]

Swimming and Diving counts as 1 sport.

Track and Field counts as 2 for each gender due to each season (indoor and outdoor) having its own NCAA championship.

So, at ISU for example, the overall "Track and Cross Country program" counts as 6 of ISU's 18 varsity sports.

Thanks, knew something counted "double" somewhere.

 

[BoxsterCy]

Sage made a statement a couple years ago that the ISU AD was sitting on a pile of cash. I hope he was right and that could get us through a poorer year.

Edit: not sure what year your numbers are from, seemed low. Found the 17/18 budget where we were 88 MM. guessing we are over the 90 MM area

Yeah, numbers are all over the place in different articles and nothing current I could find.

 

[CloneGuy8]

I don't always agree with Pollard, but it does make me feel better to have a CPA as the AD right now.

 

[CysRage]

There are some Athletic Dept. run by total nimrods and a crisis of this magnitude would make me real nervous if I was a fan/alumni.

Gee I wonder who that could be? *looks out east*