06-23-2015, 02:56 PM
(06-23-2015, 02:25 PM)Farm93 link Wrote:For those that hate the idea that DAPER (Stanford Athletics) includes revenue from the golf course as part of its operating budget, I trust those same types will be quite upset to learn that ASU will fuel its budget with fees from office buildings and residential units to be built on a portion of ASU's campus assigned to the athletic department.
I guess I should be careful about speaking for others, but I think that nobody here was upset that DAPER includes revenue from the golf course as part of its operating budget. The issue was that if you want to understand how much revenue is raised specifically from intercollegiate athletics, then the golf course doesn't really count.
As to the ASU plan - I suppose it's better than what most schools do which is to use obligatory student fees and money from the general budget to subsidize the athletics program. [ASU currently subsidizes it's intercollegiate athletics program by $10 million according to the USA Today report, http://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/finances/ ]
I can imagine a host of policy/tax/legal problems, but perhaps they can all be worked out satisfactorily.