Athletics and Endowments....How USF Failed

[bcgruber]

USF just sits with their big endowment, and loves to look at it never spending a penny.  They never had a vision.  We fired good coaches in both power sports, because the administration didn't like that they were getting more powerful then them.  I don't know if there is time to catch up now....I sure hope so but its looking awfully dark these days for the future.

Research shows that elite athletics success has a significant increase in private contributions to the entire university, not just athletics. This research suggests that successful athletics may help grow private donations and thereby the total university endowment (Walker, 2015). As for research grants in relation to athletics, controlling for university background characteristics such as years of existence, public/private, and endowment past studies found that athletic success has a positive relationship with enhanced academic research following such success, meaning as the institutions were more successful athletically their academic research increased as well (Keyton, Reifman, & Warnick, 2012). Interestingly, also found to exist was a positive relationship between endowment size and research funding in relation to athletics success (positive relationship)

 

Athletic Subsidies & University Endowments: P5 vs G5

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Independent of conferences, institutions with larger athletic budgets are those institutions that have more financial means in terms of academic research and private...

 

[monktified]

This is truth.  Do we not see the models that Florida and Florida St have put out there.  Our endowment has almost surpassed FSU in size and only growing.  If we invest in top tier athletics that will strengthen our university and absolutely open us up to more donors including alumni who want to give back to their university.

[Rocky Style]

Yassss

[puc86]

17 minutes ago, bcgruber said:

USF just sits with their big endowment, and loves to look at it never spending a penny.  They never had a vision.  We fired good coaches in both power sports, because the administration didn't like that they were getting more powerful then them.  I don't know if there is time to catch up now....I sure hope so but its looking awfully dark these days for the future.

Research shows that elite athletics success has a significant increase in private contributions to the entire university, not just athletics. This research suggests that successful athletics may help grow private donations and thereby the total university endowment (Walker, 2015). As for research grants in relation to athletics, controlling for university background characteristics such as years of existence, public/private, and endowment past studies found that athletic success has a positive relationship with enhanced academic research following such success, meaning as the institutions were more successful athletically their academic research increased as well (Keyton, Reifman, & Warnick, 2012). Interestingly, also found to exist was a positive relationship between endowment size and research funding in relation to athletics success (positive relationship)

 

Athletic Subsidies & University Endowments: P5 vs G5

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Independent of conferences, institutions with larger athletic budgets are those institutions that have more financial means in terms of academic research and private...

 

In all fairness to them if I were that well endowed I would probably spend time looking at it and be afraid it would shrink as well.

[bcgruber]

IT will shrink and be gone if you don't invest.  You always need to invest for the future, OR all you will have is the PAST

[Jim Johnson]

Uh... that's exactly how endowments work.  You put the capital in the bank (investments) and you spend only the "interest" (dividends) ... and a lot of the endowment are for specific purposes, such as endowed chairs (where all of the interest goes to the salary of the professor holding that position). 

 

[Brad]

9 hours ago, bcgruber said:

We fired good coaches in both power sports, because the administration didn't like that they were getting more powerful then them.

What is Dougie doing these days anyway?

[Triple B]

9 hours ago, bcgruber said:

We fired good coaches in both power sports, because the administration didn't like that they were getting more powerful then them.

I'm still not in that camp. I still believe they're gone because the one making the decision thought we should be doing better in both sports and just didn't understand the dynamics ...

[NewEnglandBull]

23 minutes ago, Triple B said:

I'm still not in that camp. I still believe they're gone because the one making the decision thought we should be doing better in both sports and just didn't understand the dynamics ...

But we have had plenty who needed to be gone. 

[CousinRicky]

44 minutes ago, Brad said:

What is Dougie doing these days anyway?

Battling pancreatic cancer but I told you that a couple of months ago.