Thursday, May 1, 1986
Sports
University Daily Kansan
13
Revenue
Continued from p. 10
Johnson said the department had other alternatives beside the Margin of Excellence Fund and season football tickets to help bring in money
The department, he said, will be looking at how much financial support non-revenue sports are getting and other student bodies around the country.
He said the department wanted to know whether KU students were giving more or less than other students nationwide.
Another increase in student fees, such as the $2 hike last year, could help the department, Johnson said.
Other alternatives, he said, included looking at collecting gate receipts from some events such as baseball games.
Gary Hunter, assistant athletic director, is involved in another area of promoting some non-revenue sports.
He is the chairman of the Women's Task Force Committee organized to
help promote women's athletics at Kansas. He said the committee was busy working on ideas to help attenuate the beauty of women's sports next year.
Although Johnson is adamant about not cutting sports, he does recognize that many schools around the country are getting rid of their financial problems by cutting programs.
The NCAA is partly to blame for that he said.
Unlike Walker at Oklahoma,
Johnson disagrees with the NCAA
cutting the number of sports a
college has to carry. Its recent cut in
the requirement from 16 to 14 makes it
easier for schools to cut programs.
At a meeting of the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation Board last month, the board developed a plan for helping non-revenue sports.
The board decided to form a committee this summer that would study
all financial sources for non-revenue sports.
At last month's meeting, two Kansas coaches, who had been invited to address the meeting, told the board they thought the support of their teams by the department could be improved.
Scott Perelman, head tennis coach, told the board that he hoped the tennis courts could be improved so the team could play more matches at home.
Frankie Albiz, head, volleyball coach, told the board, "I think any sport that is relying on the budget is in real problems."
Gary Kempf, head swim coach, said not only does he have a successful swimming program — taking second in the Big Eight Conference in both men's and women's competition this season — he has what he considers to be strong support from the Athletic Department.
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