(06-16-2018 09:42 AM)CoachMaclid Wrote: (06-14-2018 02:35 PM)THUNDERGround Wrote: I think you'd see Marshall take drastic measures before they'd let anything happen to fb or mbb. I think that if everything goes wrong that could, Marshall would:
1. Drop all other men's sports
2. Keep only enough women's sport to remain Title IX compliant
3. Explore ways to regionalize
These options aren't feasible as Marshall is already at the minimum number of Division I sports and divided in a way to meet Title IX. However, Marshall's not quite in the same boat here for two reasons...
1.) Marshall is among the leaders in the entire G5 for having the least percentage of total budget subsidizes and a higher percentage generated from organic revenue. In fact, in current CUSA, only Marshall, Southern Miss, and LaTech generate the majority of their budget dollars organically rather than through subsidized funding.
2.) Marshall receives virtually no funding from direct appropriation from the state. Almost the entirety of the subsidized funding comes from student fees and tuition waivers the state has allowed proportionately for the state's universities. The two daggers to Marshall would be if West Virginia passes legislation to prohibit funding athletics with student fees (which is being debated in a few states) or if the state decides that the tuition waivers can only be used in lieu of academic scholarships (as WVU does, but Marshall uses this to bridge the gap in scholarship funding). If those restrictions were to be put in place, then Marshall would be hurting. Since there is no direct funding from the state in forms of appropriation for athletics, its a slightly different situation than what some others are facing.
See that is where you are mistaken because you are talking % of the budget. But when you do a per student avg Marshall is in the upper tier of CUSA.
Marshall's low student enrollment is whats keeping the % down. Marshall receives $13,762,424 for student fees and school funds with a student enrollment of 13,321 (2015). Now I dont know if that is the correct number but its the number that pops up on google .
So per student that equal $1033
Lets go with FIU and they get around 23 million of their 29+ million budget from student fees and the school. With a enrollment of 55,000 that comes out to $418 per student.
So FIU actually is in better shape because they still have room to double their budget by getting up to Marshall's level of student funding. Lets not play game with student fees and school funding.....
it all goes into the total amount a student pays to go to school their. The only difference a student fees goes directly to the AD. Tuition into the general funds.
But if someone still wants to argue student fees are different. Marshall (381)is still a few dollars high on student fees than FIU (365). And if each school added $50 a year to that fee
That's 2.7 million for FIU and only $666,050 for Marshall so using a % of a budget is not a good way to look at funding.
I'm using the numbers from USA today so if you disagree give me a link to the numbers you used.
As far as Marshall not receiving state funding....this article said Marshall had $2.5 million cut in state appropriations in 2015 and a total of $9 million from 2013 to 2015
http://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/mars...853b7.html
(edit) after farther checking Marshall gets 64 million from the state or 21% of the overall budget. Western is at 74 million from the state, 17% of the overall budget. Both school are flat on enrollment numbers. Western had a pension increase of $7,263,300 that hurt the most.
