This Post was done by Trent Ringle
Being an athletic
director or someone who holds any high position where you control the budget of
all your sports programs at your school has to be one of the more stressful
jobs around. Only having a set amount of money that can be budgeted for the
different athletic programs brings up a number of different topics. Exactly how
this money should be distributed among the programs, which program needs it
more, which one deserves it more. A number of questions need to be answered
before a sound budget can be written out.
In
the budget allocation assignment, our school has a $120,000 budget to divide
between all the sports team. Along with this a donation which was given to our
school for $20,000 bring our total now to $140,000. Lastly, four athlete
programs can receive $60 per player by doing fundraisers. We as a group decided
that the teams with the most players should do the fundraisers in order to
bring in the most amount of money to help fund as many sports teams as we can. This
brings our grand total to $155,300 that we can spend for all the different
athletic programs. Of this amount, $151,350 must be spent on what teams need to
have. The left over $3,950 that we had we decided to spend it on both the men
and women’s soccer and track teams, and the women’s volleyball team.
Our
decision to give these specific teams the extra money was based on which teams
we could give the most support too. All five of these teams are rank in the top
five of their conferences making our decision to give them the extra money an
easy one, they deserved it. When being an athletic director Title IX plays a
big part in the final decision. In the exercise, we wanted to make sure that we
were not; judgmental in whom we gave money to. This is what lead us to give
money to both men’s and women’s team, giving them an equal opportunity to
receive financial help and to help them excel in their individual sport.
Though some programs might think it is unfair who we decided to give the extra money to there are both negatives and positives that were contributed to our cause with the positivest out weighing the negatives. A question to bring up would be what
if we did not have the full amount of money needed to support our sports
programs. In which sport program would cuts be made that would still help our athletic
programs get the proper support they need. Thankfully, in this exercise we did
not have to cut any teams and were able to give all the financial help that we
could to our programs.
The best thing to come out of this exercise we did in class was the fact that we did not have to cut any sports. The fact that we found a way to allocate the money to different teams without cutting any sports was very crucial. We could have cut some sports to make room for spending but decided it was best not to. Schools should not consider cutting teams first that should be the last resort because that is only fair to the players on the teams that they get a chance.
ReplyDelete-Nick Daverio
I agree with both of you, Nick and Trent, that it was a good thing that you did not cut any sports. It seems like the way you allocated money was fair to everyone.
ReplyDeleteCutting sports is the worst idea that a school can ever come up with. What our group did shows what schools should do. School sports should work together like a family should and come up with money to keep each sport around. I say this because we used the top three teams with the largest amount of participants on them and used them to help generate revenue by having them do fundraisers. This is because those teams would get the most money out of them. All of that could be shared among the school sports. Having the most number of sports possible and not cutting any gives everyone different opportunities to participate in. This would just make everyone happy in the long run. I think we did a great job as a group making decisions for the budget and it all worked out.
ReplyDeleteComment by Kane Godfrey