SPORTS
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, Sept. 1, 1994
3B
Men's sports dominate athletic budgets
The Associated Press
OVERLAND PARK — Most of the money spent by big-time university athletic programs goes to men's sports, which in turn earn the most, according to an NCAA study released yesterday.
Men's sports programs get 54 percent of the average Division I A-budget, according to a survey performed by Daniel I. Fulks of the School of Accountancy at the University of Kentucky.
About 14 percent of the budget, on average, at a Division I-A school is spent on women's programs.
The remaining 32 percent goes to administrative costs.
Men get 12 percent of the budget allotted for scholarships; women get 5 percent. Most of the budgeted recruiting expenses also go to men.
Fulks cautioned that the survey was voluntary and that the response rate was 55 percent. He also said that different schools had different accounting methods that could have tainted the survey results.
The survey also was specifically designed to focus on football and basketball, and lumped information about other programs into one, he said.
Athletic department salaries and benefits, which at 31 percent of the budget are the largest expense, are weighted toward men's programs.
The study found 13 percent of money allocated for salaries and benefits goes to men's programs and 4 percent go to women's programs.
The study found men's football and basketball programs at the Division I A level generate the most revenue. Overall, men's programs generate 69 percent of the revenue of the average athletic department, while women's programs bring in 4 percent. The study said 27 percent of the revenue generated is non-gender.
Division I-A schools, on average.
The study concluded, however, that the average Division I-A athletic department was a money loser once cash infusions from a university's general fund were taken out.
made a profit of $600,000 in 1993 but actually had a $174,000 defect when "institutional support" was removed from the equation.
Different factors were used in the study than in past years, and Fulks said it was difficult to make comparisons. But in general, men's football and basketball at the Division I-A level were more profitable in 1993 than in 1989.
Revenues were up and expenses had increased, but expenses went up at a slower rate than revenues, Fulks said.
Women's Division I-A basketball programs were surveyed for the first time. 6 percent broke even or made a profit.
Olympic gold medalist lobbies for athletes' rights
The Associated Press
PARIS — Athletes should be given greater consideration in the Olympic movement, from independent athlete commissions to clear-cut rules and sanctions for drug use, Edwin Moses said yesterday.
"Fair play is perhaps the most important issue for the athlete," the Olympic gold medal winning hurdler said on the second day of the International Olympic Committee Congress. "It is imperative that we exert full pressure, not only upon the athletes, but also other individuals close to the athletes who may encourage the use of doping or other illegal manipulations."
Moses said athletes "insist on strong sanctions for use of banned substances and techniques as well as continued research into new controls for
new substances."
He singled out "controls for testosterone, growth hormones, blood-doping techniques and other new genetically made materials."
Sports federations and Olympic committees should standardize lists of illegal substances, methods of collecting and testing and sanctions, he said.
Those organizations should also accelerate formation of independent athletes' commission with full voting rights, which, Moses said, "has been slow in taking place."
He made a plea for special consideration to women's sports when additional events are added to the Olympics. The IOC has made such moves recently, such as adding women's ice hockey to the 1998 Winter Games.
With about two weeks before the
IOC Evaluation Commission begins visiting the nine cities bidding for the 2002 Winter Games, Moses said that "the interests and welfare of the athlete should be the most important criteria for the choice of host cities."
Increasing the number of sports or competitors should not be allowed to reduce resources to athletes, Moses said.
At the same time "consideration must also be given to smaller countries with less competitive countries ... and to smaller, less-developed countries."
On Tuesday, delegates heard about the importance of placing priority on the environment when planning and selecting Olympic sites.
An IOC member from Japan, which will host the next Winter Games in Nagano in 1998, said future Olympics could be held in more than one country at a time to avoid construction of sports facilities that are prohibitively expensive and could harm the environment.
"The time may have come now to consider the Olympic Games should be held in a city or cities where competition, facilities are already in existence," said Chiharu Igaya, a member of the IOC and the Japanese Olympic Committee's Executive Board.
Some sports could be held in separate countries even if they do not share a border, as the Olympic Charter now requires, Igaya said.
He singled out bobsled and luge, which are criticized by ecologists for destroying mountain environments and risking leaks of harmful ammonia.
The idea of cross-border Olympics is already being suggested for the 2002 Winter Games.
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Dates: (see schedule below)
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