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PETITIONPlease sign our petition to save dropped OU sports. Click here. If your current circumstances or position with Ohio University do not require anonymity, we request that you sign with your name rather than as "Anonymous" as some have. Thank you and thanks to the Women's Lacrosse blog for setting up this petition.MORE LINKSBobcat Attack Message BoardOhio University Alumni AssociationOU Students have an active discussion going on in FaceBook.Com. Click here to go to FaceBook.Com and join in.OU Student Newspaper "The Post Online"www.EquityinAthletics.orgSave James Madison University Sports.orgTaking Inside Higher Ed to the MatEMAIL CONTACT FOR THIS SITE: SaveOUSports ATgmailDOTcom |
POSSIBLE COURSES OF ACTIONSuggestions from an alum on how to deal with budget problems:Here are a few ideas that could be used to help save these programs and reduce the athletic dept. deficit at the same time.1. Cutting all athletic Budgets by 3%2. With the Athletic department being overstaffed! – Propose not to replace empty staff positions for 6 months and put the money back into the budget. We have a very capable sports admin program and could use some students to fill in for the short term.3. Propose to asking the Bobcat Club for assistance – they are able re-earmark the money to the athletic department. They have raised $560,000 since June for the "to provide funding to enhance the student-athlete experience for all student-athletes that comprise our men's and women's intercollegiate sport teams." This would seem like a worthy manner to spend some of that money4. Propose asking every alumni who participated in sports for $200 for the next 3 years. (Stating that the athletic program is in a dyer need for assistance. Letting the alumni know that their athletic program is in great financial need.)5. Propose to the student senate add $10 activity fee for each quarter for the next 3 year, similar to the activity fee for the Ping center6. Propose cutting men’s indoor track and field only and cutting back on team rosters for outdoor track and field to 45, which will cut the total number of 60 male athletes.Other ideas that I would advocate employing would be to:1. Reduce the # of football players on the squad that are non-essential. We have to have 85 full scholarships for football, fine. But do we need 120 players on the team. 85 players is already 4 players at every position. Each player on the team costs the University $10,000 a year. Cut the roster down to 100 players. Save $200,000 per year. $800,000 over 4 years BTW, each Track & Field athlete costs the University less than $1,000 per year. Track and Field actually makes the University money! They give out 7 scholarships, which are usually divided in half and given to 14 or so athletes. Each of these athletes contributes half of their tuition to attend. The other 40 athletes on the team pay their entire way to the University. Over 4 years these athletes contribute $800,000 to the school, far more than the cost of running the program during that time!2. Spend more responsibly on Football. Did we really have to bring every single player to Mobile, including the redshirts? If they didn't contribute during the year to the success in getting to the GMAC Bowl, then let them go next year when they do play and we make it there again! Do we have to pay for the players to stay in a hotel room for HOME GAMES? This is just ludicrous!3. Schedule more money games for Football. In our non-conference games for next year, we will only probably be getting a payout from the Virginia Tech game. Schedule two $ games a year to help football pay for itself and quit being a drag on the budget. This would bring in $500,000 a year or so4. If you don't want an activity fee for student to support the athletic dept, then Charge the students for tickets to Football and Basketball !! OR charge a nominal fee for tickets to each game, whether they go or not, like the Ping Center. Each student contributes $ right now toward that, whether they use it or not. Charge $1 per home game for football and basketball per student for their tickets. 20,000 students x 16 homes games = $320,000 per year Just some ideas that are easily achievable!Other ideas:1. Mount a fundraising campaign to erase the deficit and keep all the teams. All the sports would benefit as well as other programs that are involved with the varsity teams - athletic training, sports administration.2. make it a project for students in the sports ad program to examine the budget and spending patterns and come up with solutions.3. Do a better job or marketing and selling sponsorships. Surely, we can raise more with some creative thinking.4. Bring back the PAW on merchandise! All profits on selling PAW merchandise for the next 3 years will be donated to erasing the deficit and keeping these 4 teams.Post on JJ Huddle's Ohio HighAs an alumni of The Graduate School of Ohio University, a former
Graduate Assistant for the OU Track & Field Team, a husband of a member of 5
MAC Team Championships for Cross Country/Track & Field at OU, a
brother-in-law of a graduate of the Medical School of Ohio University, a
son-in-law of an All-Mac football player who played in the Sun Bowl for OU, a
good friend and former college teammate of the current Men's and Women's Head
Cross Country/Track & Field Coach, and a good friend and co-worker of Coach
Elmore Banton - the former Head Coach at Ohio University for twenty-three years
and the 1964 NCAA Cross Country National Champion, I have a vested interest in
the well-being of the OU Track & Field community.
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DROPPED TEAMS
2006 Women's Lacrosse Team
Women's Save Ohio Lacrosse Blog
LaxPower.com message board discussion on OU LAX
Women's Lacrosse web page at OU website
Swimming and Diving
Save Ohio Swimming and DivingandSave Ohio Swimming
Swimming and Diving web page at OU website
Save Ohio University Swimming Discussion Forum
Track and Field
Bringing Back Ohio Track Blog
Track and Field web page at OU website
YouTube video put together for the Track and Field Team
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