Texas State A D Dr. Larry Teis On Student Fees

[UNT_playmaker]

Hands down Huge failure on the part of the Athletic Department.

[GrandGreen]

I'd really like to know where you get this information, because I think it is completely bogus.

A little over $4 million comes from student fees at $4 an hour.

$2.6 million come from contributions (MGC).

$1.2 million comes from body bag games

$1.2 million comes from the NCAA/Sun Belt

A little less than a million comes from concessions, sponsorships, etc.

Where is this $4 million you claim comes from other student fees???? This is EXACTLY the kind of disinformation that will kill any student referendum. So what is your source that students pay $240 a year in athletics, cause we sure as hell don't have an extra $4 million laying around anywhere.

Lets see I was accused of mocking TSU and now of trying to kill athletics at NT. It's been an interesting day. I attempted to explain were my data was derived and the assumptions made. It maybe bogus, in as much as most financial data relating to athletics is vague at best. If you have better data, I will stand corrected. However, I would like to know the origin of the monies that are necessary every year to pay for athletes at NT if not from student fees. I am reasonably sure it is not the title 9 assessment as these funds have been transferred many years before that was enacted, plus the fact by definition those fees are supposed to be restricted to women's sports not football. As far as my source, look at any year's published NT athletic revenue and expense recap. What we are discussing is the origin of the additional funds always transferred in to cover athletic expenses. Obviously, NT does have assess to additional funds with student fees seeming to be the most likely source of those institutional funds used to balance NT's athletic budget. Perhaps you have a break down of the current semester fees of some $970 per student per semester and their uses. By the way, disinformation is a term used normally to convey someone knowingly supplying false information to further some agenda. My rationale for most of my comments was only to be fair to NT students as I believe that they are contributing much more than is being sometimes portrayed.

As an aside, I appreciate your efforts in support of upgrading the athletic program at NT.