Follow-up thoughts on UNT’s proposed athletic fee increase

[Harry]

There was some pretty big news on the UNT athletics front, and it had nothing to do with football practice.

It looks like UNT is on the verge of bumping up its student athletic fee. The school’s students are currently paying $10 a semester credit hour, or about $300 a year. Getting that fee through back in 2008 was an epic battle that might have saved UNT’s football program as a viable FBS operation.

That fee hasn’t budged since, but UNT’s regents will consider bumping it up $1 a credit hour. That might not sound like much, and it isn’t — at least not on the basis of an individual student.

It’s $30 a year, ballpark.

That makes a big difference, though, at a school like UNT that has a massive student population of 36,000. It’s about a million dollars. UTSA is charging a whole lot more, but at least UNT is making a move.

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[North Texas Shep]

Do it and make it worth while. I hate it when schools take more and do nothing positive with it. How I felt from 2005 to 2008 at unt

[oldguystudent]

If they increase the fee 10% every year for seven years, they'll double it without ruffling too many feathers.  ($10 current  X (1.1)^7 years = $19.48)This is a good approach in my eyes.