1979_09 The Daily Collegian September 1979

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CSUF Athletics budget to exceed $1 million
B> Sieve Kipp
DaBy CaBegian Staff Reporter
Inflation and an increased emphasis
on CSUF sports has brought the Athletic
Authority budget level to a point where it
will extend past the million dollar figure
by the 19B243 school year
The 197*40 budget took a 10 9 per
cent hike oyer last year, bringing the total figure budgeted for collegiate sports.
sports administration, and sports infor
rnationto$754,173
A breakdown in the expenditures
shows that men s CSUF sports compet
ing in the NCAA •« about half of the total amount budgeted ($373 018), which
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is a two percent increase over last year
Women's sports (AIAW) has taken a 73
percent boost as it is getting 146,414
while the costs of sports administration
($255,114) and sports information
(579,627) total the rest of the operating
expenses Sports information is, of
course, the publicizing done on col teg
iate sports events
The resources which will be utilized to
meet the demands of the budget actually exceeds it with a surplus of $14..289
The surplus, however, will be going towards the needed additional purchase of
two vans not figured Into the budget
The costs will run about $25,000 for the
vans
CSUF sports generated $655,062 in
revenues last year and will take care of
most of the expenditures The remaining
resources include $94,000 from ins true
tionalrv related activities fees ond
$19:400 from Associated Students
The budget, before being finalized,
had to meet the approval at the Advisory
Board, Athletic Authority Board and the
CSUF President after initially being recommended by the athletic director, who
gathered figures from CSUF coaches and
others involved
The near 11 percent total increase in
the Budget was a foreseen occurrence as
the increase has been moving at a steady
rate the past few years Those involved
m the budget process realize, however,
that coming up with the resources to
support such an increase in future
years will become on impossible task
without taking drastic steps
Cayford 'Cus' Craham the CSUF
Assistant Executive Vice President,
pointed out the only ways tc meet the
demands within the noor future
'There's only two ways to come up
with more revenue," Craham said
'One, is to encourage people to give us
more than they have been and two is to
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Craham recognized that CSUF dona
tions have already been coming in close
to its potential peak Donations from the
Bulldog Foundation presently take care
of scholarship and recruiting expenses
This year s total donation figure was
$269,574, as men's sports received a
4 percent boost in scholarships while
women' s athaetk scholarships jumped
44 percent this year
Revenue-encouraging actions have
already been taken by Athletic Director
Jack Wilcox Wilcox, seeing some of the
women ' s sports as future money-making
sources, has angled this year s budget
in that direction A short-term action was
taken involving the women s volleyball
team
'With Mickey Horn on the team this
year, I don t see why the team couldn t
draw 1,500 to 2,000 people at its home
matches this season,' Wilcox said 'So
we've moved them from the women s
gym to the men's gym and beefed up
the lights '
Wilcox goal is to lessen the load that
football and men s basketball carries
for the rest of the sports
'It's going to be hard for me to be a
responsible person by saying this sport
has to go,' he said in reference to the
future, where the only course oi action
might turn out to be eliminating certain
sports
'The only way to hold onto them,*
Wilcox saad, 'is to make them have some
payroll potential '
Wilcox named soccer and women s
basketball and volleyball as those he
believes in joining the tone two sports
which get into the black
Wilcox sees a great potential in soccer
once the stadium is built due to CSUF
competing in what' s widely accepted to
be the No 1 collegiate league in the
nation
Craham commented that he believes
soccer is '10 years away' trom advancing into the black, 'according to what
keep being told '
Wilcox is working to create women
basketball and volleyball as money
makers by giving the sports mo*
scholarships to work with Wilcox h*
the final say on where to distribute th
scholarships and the two above nisa
tioned women' s sports had the biggaa
gain
'I'm leaning more towards a balance
program,* Wilcox said 'I have IB sport
to consider but I believe we can w
with volleyball and (women s) basi
ball  and build  them  up through  (
motional ideas "
With football and  men s  basketfaej
being   the   oply   two   money -product*!
sports, they claimed the biggest chunl
of the NCAA budgeted figure with f.
ball   getting   $167 858   and   basket
receiving $120,027  Both sports rece.
substantial increases as there is a 'don T
bite the hand that feeds you.' attitugj
among those behind the budgeting
'I was involved in the theater for yeen
and it was the same way.' Craham said
'We would put on a variety of plan
but we always had to choose some plan
that would make money to cover de
other ones that didn't I would hen
liked to have chosen other plays But ■
the selection process, you have to el
what would do the best good for all
be honest about it The same is true a
athletics ' l^^^_
The budget breakdown for each span
follows NCAA -Football $167,851;
basketball $83 533, basketball tourr*
ment $36,494 baseball $21,225, trad
$16,321, wrestling $11,382
$7,729, water polo $6,989 goff $6 .<**
tennis $5,480, swimming $4,808. crrjaj
country $4,299 AlAW-basketbal
$10,184 volleyball $8,317; i
$7,060 swimming $7,031
$5,710; badminton $4,660
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