Assistant coach DeAnna Price going in the hammer!
Illini Athletics Revenue
With the revenue losing sports, it will be less about results and more about, this: Demirjian (example)
You must keep the Fat Cats happy.
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College level track and field is a dying sport in terms of fan interest. Illinois' recent success is being driven by an outstanding coach. It's not sustainable. Our "prestige" will fade but the losses won't.
Outside of Oregon it has never been a huge sport in terms of fan interest, but it is also relatively low cost. My guess is you have some donors providing a lot of financial support, so not sure you gain much by dropping it
GrayGhost77
- Centennial, CO
As long as the Olympics remain a political propaganda tool and a way to garner international prestige then there will be political will and money put behind supporting the Olympic sports. College sports are essentially the US's training ground for many of our Olympic athletes, so unless something dramatic changes I don't see most of these sports going away.
Look, the biggest over-expenditure is at the administrative level at basically every university nation wide. Asking athletics to pick up
these shortfalls while not willing to look in the mirror at costs is absurd. Keep building, keep levels of admin. at "the federal government"
levels, keep bumping up tuitions while reducing the number of families who can afford college all are killing higher ed.. this is bigger
than sports folks. in fact, primary sports (men's football and basketball) are the only thing keeping some of these schools afloat. Give
these universities a budget and make them trim the fat with layers of administration and faculty being the place to start.
these shortfalls while not willing to look in the mirror at costs is absurd. Keep building, keep levels of admin. at "the federal government"
levels, keep bumping up tuitions while reducing the number of families who can afford college all are killing higher ed.. this is bigger
than sports folks. in fact, primary sports (men's football and basketball) are the only thing keeping some of these schools afloat. Give
these universities a budget and make them trim the fat with layers of administration and faculty being the place to start.
illinidarrin
- from parts unknown
No USC?
PAC 12 looked just fine, and with a lower tv deal so ??? I guess future projections.
Ya it’s interesting. Based off of that list only you’d think the pac 12 would’ve been in a decent spot, certainly not on the brink of dissolution.
Did they exclude private schools? No usc or Notre dame, nor Miami.
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IL ROI really gotta improve
Surprisingly good for how bad we’ve been, I assume the B1G media $ are what’s driving things?
Surprised sec teams Missouri and miss state and Kentucky lower.
Add in Purdue, Indiana and Maryland are lower but similar.
I agree with this. Also, college course requirements (hours), many of which are totally unnecessary, serve only to insure faculty and administrative jobs. Further, a college degree, other than as training for a marketable profession such as doctor, lawyer, accountant and the like, is becoming a less reliable pathway to financial success.
I once worked in admin at Stanford and often looked around the office wondering 'what does this person do?' I was told that after 5 years you're unofficially tenured, no matter how bad you are at your job. Also, so many schools use adjunct instructors, contractors basically, who make a pittance.
Unfortunately ballooning non-teaching staff numbers has become a problem at the el-hi level as well, where we pay much more per student than other countries for lesser outcomes.
Sports were supposed to be part of the mission of universities to produce well-rounded, broad-minded indivduals, educted in a wide range of subjects for the fullest understanding of our world. You know, to become good citizens, improve society, etc. A very quaint idea now.
Right there at #29 /s