A look at SWAC budgets reveal

[Jag Voice]

Re: A look at SWAC budgets

Valley's coaches is accurate......remember, the assistant women's hoops coach is the head volleyball coach and the assistant volleyball coach is the women's head basketball coach. The tennis coach is the assistant football coach.

as for PV, when your leadership team hails from a school where there was no football and the bottom line is watch every dollar, your never going to do more than status quo

Well if that's the case at MVSU, I can see how their expenses are so low. Budget is probably a bad name for this thread. These are expenses, not the real budget. Having low expenses is not a bad thing if your program is getting the job done.

 

[GRAM4LIFE]

GRAM4LIFE,



Dr. Wright believes that athletics is the window to the university, but he also firmly believes it is the job of the alums to support athletics (he looking at the U of Texas and Texas A & M U models "?"). So he is not very comfortable with spending auxiliary funds or interest income when he believes the academic professors' salaries need to be increased as well as getting Prairie View A & M tenured tract together.

I am not in major conflict with that philosophy parse (doctoral leadership student), but I feel Dr Wright has to become a better organizer of pushing the information and structure of alumni organizations (and booster groups). There is also a problem that unlike any other school in Texas, Prairie View does not have the legislative authority to increase student athletic fees with out the vote and support of the student body.

Our athletic fees are currently the lowest in the state and in the SWAC along with academic fees, as well (they were recently increased this past semester). So yes the progress of increasing athletic competitiveness in our football program will be slower in my opinion and the athletic operating budget will naturally be slow process.

And they wonder why every dollar is so important in our programs. Our presidents are academic minded, which again I don't have a problem with. But, they do not allow our ADs the ability to create the means to maintain a true Division 1 department. Their hands are too involved in everything. I believe that if you hire someone to do a job then allow them to do their job. That's not happening now.

Exactly!! I have completed a ?A Study On The Feasibility Cost-Analysis Management, and Risk Management On Expansion Of The SWAC? with two additional institutions along with analyzing various combinations of either Division I-AA/Division I Tennessee State, Florida A & M, and/or Bethune-Cookman or Division II Tuskegee, Langston, Clark-Atlanta. The study reviewed among other items 1) decreasing athletic department expenditures; 2) increase quality of the SWAC conferences marketability: a) branding merchandising, b) broadcasting rights, c) academic doctoral/research funding; and 3) creating a greater alliance between academic and athletics peers.

The study did not advocate between the mix of bringing in a combination of a Division I-AA/Division I and Division II schools. The reclassification process of the two separate NCAA level programs, showed a great deal of difficult.

I have done a relative similar study for my doctoral correlational methods class regarding SWAC exspansion using correlations and multiple regressions test on attendance. My next study I plan to compare academic standards, based on recognition from Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching 2000

Yeah, I figured that Tuskeegee moving up would make the process more difficult. How long would it take for them to be able to move up and become a member of the SWAC and allow for the SWAC to split? I know there is a time frame before they are eligible to win a championship but would that time frame also stand in the way of a conference spliting since they wouldn't be a full member yet?

 

[Jafus (Thinker)]

GRAM4LIFE,

Yeah, I figured that Tuskeegee moving up would make the process more difficult. How long would it take for them to be able to move up and become a member of the SWAC and allow for the SWAC to split? I know there is a time frame before they are eligible to win a championship but would that time frame also stand in the way of a conference spliting since they wouldn't be a full member yet?

Good question. The NCAA requires a 5 year reclassification process from Division II to Division I-AA/Division I. Theoritically, the SWAC could bring them in as an expansion member immediately (usually is not the standard process) I suppose, and use the split division process for all sports (including men's and women's basketball).

The SWAC Office could allow Tuskegee games to count in league play and just not allow them to be eligible for the conference championship in any sport until the are fulling sanction as a Division I-AA/Division I member by the NCAA.

I suppose it would similar to what the SEC did with Alabama when the were on probation and could not win the SEC Championship and play-in a post-season bowl game. Their games counted in league play for every conference opponents, but the were not in contention for the SEC Western Division Championship for the SEC Championship Game.

 

[GRAM4LIFE]

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