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Thursday, February 08, 2007

Why Ohio University Had to
Shut Down All Those Other Sports

The disgraced Ohio University athletic program, which has dealt with having overspent itself into catastrophe by shutting down a bunch of sports that actual students engage in [background here], describes, in this article , some of its typical expenditures. Among them:


[T]he football team stays at the Burr Oak State Park lodge on the nights before home games during a typical season. The move costs the department about $31,000 per year...

"There's some dedicated time for academic work out there - some game focus," [a spokesman said]. "It takes place in probably 90 to 92 percent of all Division I-A schools." Eleven of 13 MAC schools do the home-game hotel stays, said the associate AD.

Head football coach Frank Solich wanted the Burr Oak retreats, and they may help the teams compete at a higher level, said Andrey. It's difficult to find corporate partners for player accommodations in rural southeast Ohio, he asserted, unlike some of OU's peer institutions.



Details on this swell group of guys here.
Posted at: 2/08/2007 12:25:00 PM