One week to go before the Trustees Vote... Contact them this week...it will help...it worked at Miami...
One week to go before the Trustees Vote... Contact them this week...it will help...it worked at Miami...
I've seen a lot of these in the past 10 years and I believe you really do have a chance here, especially if the football teams stays in hotels for home games. Getting a voice to the trustees is big. If Huntsman and Banton can be there, it will make all the difference. Coach Banton carries more weight than he really knows.
Thanks...keep the faith....
from McGowan's letter to OU:
"If a university needs to increase the number of women participating in intercollegiate athletics I suggest changing cross-country to cross country/distance running for women and hire an extra coach or two to help expand the program. I am sure with a little effort the coaches can get 40-85 women running in the fall. "
and how is this going to save men's track, women's lacross and men's swimming??? sounds like it adds to the problem.
well since the cuts did not improve their status with Title IX, in fact, I heard it worsened their status, then I don't see where this letter makes any sense.
and why would we feel we need to compromise our sports in order to keep feeding the football machine. Keep our sports the way they are and cut football expenses. Just what does a football team really have to gain by staying in a resort the night before home games. throw me a bone here.
OK. I read through the thread and saw some e-mail addresses where I could express my displeasure, but can someone (who knows / is in the situation) tell me what I should do? I don't want to waste time doing something utterly ineffective. On the other hand, if the program is saved, that would be a big deal, and I'd like to help (or try).
I would write to the turstees. They wull vote on this issue Feb 14/15th.
bump
The Athens Post 2-9-2007
This would be my Headline:
The real story behind The Ohio University Football Team Bowling for $$$$!!!
OU to absorb post-season costs
Katie Carrera / Sports Editor /
The Ohio football team’s first trip to a bowl game in 38 years wasn’t planned, nor was it budgeted for.
After reimbursement payments from the Mid-American Conference and ticket revenue are factored in, Ohio University will pick up the remaining $277,550 tab from the Bobcats’ appearance in the MAC Championship and GMAC Bowl, paying for it out of institutional general reserves, said William Decatur, vice president for finance and administration.
“It’s one-time money,” he explained, adding that the same reserves were used to comply with the minimum wage increase. “It’s an opportunity that wasn’t anticipated or budgeted for in the athletic department, but certainly something the university is proud of and, there was no question about us attending those games.”
For winning the MAC East Division, coach Frank Solich received the 5 percent bonus — $12,484 — stipulated in his contract, which will come out of the athletic department’s salary budget, said Kirby Hocutt, director of athletics. Solich’s base salary is $249,672.
There are no contractual bonuses for assistant football coaches, but Hocutt said the athletic department received private donations amounting in $40,000 that is being used “to reward our football coaches for a great season.”
Ohio’s participation in the MAC Championship game in Detroit on Nov. 30, for which the conference doesn’t offer any reimbursement, makes up $95,000 of that total. That includes travel and lodging costs, along with the expense of housing the team while they practiced in Athens during winter break.
Total expenses to send the football team and its staff, cheerleaders, dance team and university officials to Mobile, Ala., for the GMAC Bowl on Jan. 7 came to $531,105. That number includes transportation ($237,644) and meals and lodging per diem ($198,001) for all 261 people who participated in the weeklong bowl-game festivities.
Some other GMAC Bowl expenses include entertainment ($7,124), equipment and supplies ($26,671), awards ($37,223) and promotion
expenditures ($12,495).
Those expenditures are offset by the $300,000 reimbursement Ohio will receive from the MAC for its participation, and the revenue from 1,097 tickets sold, or $48,555.
Although Ohio did not make enough money to cover all bowl expenses, Hocutt said the national attention from post-season games is well worth the cost.
“I think you have to look at the intangibles that are associated with it,” Hocutt said. “We’ve been in USA Today every day with the bowl lineups, we’ve been on the scroll of ESPN every night in (December.) We’re exposing Ohio University to the entire country.”
How much does it cost for a Men's Track & Field team...I read where OU enrollment is down…has the football TV coverage resulted in more students or just has it make the AD and coach feel better and gives their more money and opportunity to move on…
doesn't look like a Title IX issue to me at all. looks like a Entitlement Football issue.
261 people in the travel party!!!!!!!!?????????????????
Is this serious?
My comment about adding more women to cross country/distance running in the fall was part of a flyer I wrote and printed up two weeks ago. The flyer was included in 1,600 plus packets at the Ohio Association of Track and Cross Country Clinic last week. It was my goal to make the high school coaches aware of Ohio University’s desire to drop Men’s Track & Field.
Since then I have written a letter to the Trustees and numerous others including a number of elected officials. The letter was also printed in today’s Columbus Dispatch.
If you go to the web site I listed - my letter to the Board of Trustees was at the BOTTOM of the page -http://www.runohio.com/news/01-31-07_Save_track.html - the top of the page was part of the flyer, which I printed and had put in the coaches packets last week.
My letter also appeared in the Columbus Dispatch on Saturday, February 10
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/editorials-story.php?story=dispatch/2007/02/10/20070210-A13-02.html
If you would still like to help, you can write a letter to the Ohio University Trustees and contact elected officials. The Trustees will vote on this next Thursday/Friday.
Matt McGowan
Check out this site for more information -
If they want the national spotlight, then give it to them. For all the good going to a bowl game brought them, make the negatives that much greater for cutting these sports.
The worst thing about it, is that there is so much state money out there. I have a friend that works in edu. system and said it crazy what kind of money these schools get. I don't what it's spent on, am sure there is a ton of cost to run a school. You would just think that if some of the people running these schools would get out of there offices and figure out a way to make money to keep some of these sports.
Those who would like to try to help -
Two days to go to send a letter to the Board of Trustees!!
Listed below are the Ohio University Trustees:
R. Gregory Browning, Chairman, Capital Partners, President, 37 W. Broad
Street, Suite 970, Columbus, OH 43215: (614) 224- 0999
Daniel DeLawder, Vice-Chairman, Park National Bank, 50 North Third
Street,Newark, OH 43055 (740) 349-3746
Norman "Ned" E. Dewire, 228 Glen Village Court, Powell, OH 43065-9677 (614)
325-0250
Gene T. Harris, Columbus Education Center, 270 E. State Street, Columbus, OH
43215 (614) 365-5888
C. Robert Kidder. 3Stone Advisors LLC, 191 W. Nationwide Blvd., #600,
Columbus, OH 43215 (614) 246-2445
M. Marnette Perry, Kroger Company, 1014 Vine Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202
(513) 762-4225
Larry L. Schey, Larry Schey Chevrolet, 750 East State Street, Athens, OH
45701 (740) 593-6671
C. David Snyder, ATTEVO, 1940 E. 6th Street, Cleveland, OH 44114 (216)
928-2800
Two days to go to send an email to the Ohio elected officials.
To finds your representatives go to -
http://www.house.state.oh.us/jsps/Representatives.jsp
and
http://www.senate.state.oh.us/senators
then type in your zip code.
Three days to go to call the Board of Trustees.
The above could help make a difference.
Also, just to let him know you are alive...contact the AD - Kirby Hocutt, (740) 593-0982;
He doesn't care about you as he came from Oklahoma State and want to go back to the big time. He doesn't care about Ohio or Ohio Athletics . But let him know you are alive and you care about Ohio University Men's Track & Field!!!!
Just a few more days to make your voice heard. Please help!!
what is the chance that Board of Trustees can delay a vote for additional fact gathering and protest? curious.
The more people who contact the Board of Trustees the better. Who knows if they will delay the issue…. It will not help if you wait until Thursday… You need to do it today or Tuesday!!