Robbins to cut funding

[94FinalFour]

Does no one here realize that the Athletic Department budget is completely separate and distinct from any academic budgets?  Athletics literally has its own department and handles its own affairs separate from what Robbins is in charge of... Robbins may still be President and can hire the AD, but the AD and Athletics pay for themselves.

Draconian cuts may be coming to the University, but not to the athletic department.  Had we failed to jump the PAC12 ship and go to the BIG12, yes... we very well could have been in he same boat with the likes of WSU, who has real problems to survive.  But our athletic department will be fine, at least until the next major realignment.

Yes, but the perception speaks when a school is having financial issues and building their sports programs.

Still has nothing to do with Arizona Athletics, which wholly funds itself completely separate and apart from the rest of the University.  Robbins may very well have issues, but not with Athletics.  If he is talking about cutting sports, it is a completely different analysis from the $240 million "miscalculation" involved with academics.  Perhaps it has to do with the fact that Big12 travel will cost more, or that there are no teams (sand volleyball) at those schools (yet).  When the revenue sports sort out all of the realignment issues (it ain't done yet), their subsidization of other sports will change.  Maybe that's what he meant in any reference to sports. 

Academic budget shortfalls, however, have nothing to do with the athletic department.

[WILD]

https://twitter.com/Matt_Reynoldson/status/1722731161561305175

[KansasCityCats]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2022/05/20/pac-12-big-ten-big-12-revenue-fell-pandemic/9855686002/

Even Arizona Athletics has struggled.  Regardless, there's a reason that Larry Scott, Bob Bowlsby and John Swofford have ALL moved on to other positions.  The new commissioners are doing well.

The overhead to run a university is absurd.  Yes, it's profitable but the margin isn't high.  The public assumes that schools are making ridiculous amounts of money because tuition is getting out of hand.

There needs to be a better balance between athletics and academics.  Perhaps Stanford should show the rest of the US how to operate a university AND an athletic department.  Their fans don't show up...but it doesn't matter.

[arxpert]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2022/05/20/pac-12-big-ten-big-12-revenue-fell-pandemic/9855686002/

Even Arizona Athletics has struggled.  Regardless, there's a reason that Larry Scott, Bob Bowlsby and John Swofford have ALL moved on to other positions.  The new commissioners are doing well.

The overhead to run a university is absurd.  Yes, it's profitable but the margin isn't high.  The public assumes that schools are making ridiculous amounts of money because tuition is getting out of hand.

There needs to be a better balance between athletics and academics.  Perhaps Stanford should show the rest of the US how to operate a university AND an athletic department.  Their fans don't show up...but it doesn't matter.

One might think a College that boasts a Top 10 type Global Business School would be able to handle the "Business Operations" of the College. Out of all the great minds on 1 campus, no one wants to admit that the are certain Draconian cuts that need to be made regardless if we were losing money every quarter or if we were making 10 billion a year profit. That is, the very top should be earning the least. There is such a thing as doing it for the love of the game. Find people who want to make a difference for a lower pay.

[KansasCityCats]

That SHOULD be true but we all know that leaders within any big business (universities included) are capitalists. They care about their personal wealth as much (if not more) than the success of their own employer.

[FCat]

Stories like this are why I absolutely despise social media. Because the average Laymen assumes this means Arizona will have to cut it's entire atheletics program. When the truth is the two operate seperately. Shocked people don't know this. But anyways, it sounds like the School made an accounting error (weird one at that) but it shouldn't have any issue recovering; and it is being overblown, heavily.

[arxpert]

That SHOULD be true but we all know that leaders within any big business (universities included) are capitalists. They care about their personal wealth as much (if not more) than the success of their own employer.

Of course, "we" are all, if nothing else, the peon's that allow the overlords to continue this idea. If ever there was a need to demonstrate/protest it would be about this.