Webergrad02
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Check out this article about athletic spending in Utah. http://www.ksl.com/?sid=43408579&nid=294&title=state-of-college-athletics-an-in-depth-look-at-the-154m-cost-of-utahs-athletic-programs I guess we are no longer "thinking" about providing stipends for mens and womens basketball. I guess I was wrong in my statement that we had been providing COA stipends for a few years. Makes me wonder where BYU gets it's COA stipend funds? Tithing? After reading this aricle it again makes me wonder how Weber can sustain paying $400,000 per year for a $140,000 position.
"In 2015, Weber State contemplated the idea of paying for the cost of attendance stipends for its men’s and women’s basketball teams to pay additional college costs. However, Bovee said that’s no longer something the program is looking into because it’s not something other teams in the Big Sky Conference are doing — North Dakota being the lone exception. North Dakota is currently dealing with a $1.4 million budget shortfall that led to the school creating a committee to break down how to cut costs. The program cut baseball and golf to help ease the situation, but more spending cuts could be on the way.
“It doesn’t make a lot of sense with the cost of attendance (stipends) because, in a lot of cases in our conference, you’re not fully funded with what you can do anyway for all of your student-athletes,” Bovee said, explaining why the program opted to back away from the idea."
"In 2015, Weber State contemplated the idea of paying for the cost of attendance stipends for its men’s and women’s basketball teams to pay additional college costs. However, Bovee said that’s no longer something the program is looking into because it’s not something other teams in the Big Sky Conference are doing — North Dakota being the lone exception. North Dakota is currently dealing with a $1.4 million budget shortfall that led to the school creating a committee to break down how to cut costs. The program cut baseball and golf to help ease the situation, but more spending cuts could be on the way.
“It doesn’t make a lot of sense with the cost of attendance (stipends) because, in a lot of cases in our conference, you’re not fully funded with what you can do anyway for all of your student-athletes,” Bovee said, explaining why the program opted to back away from the idea."
