Comments on: Budget Cuts? Not In Death Valley …

By: CNSYD

CNSYD — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:53:37 +0000

Amber. I refer you to my post above. Your tuition does NOT pay salaries of coaches. Athletics generates its own funding from ticket sales, etc. Athletics has to reimburse the university for utilities, use of facilities, etc. If you want to check out pay that you do pay for, then look up some of your professors. Remember this is for two semesters work not a year’s work.

By: Amber

Amber — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:52:58 +0000

Well I think it’s ridiculous. I have to pay an extra thousand dollars per semester my jr and senior year just because I am a social science major and yet they pay people that much. I have to get loans like crazy just to pay my tuition. Yes the football team is very important here at Clemson…but this is a SCHOOL which means it is for EDUCATION. I am a hardcore football fan but I don’t think I should be told that my thousands and thousands that I pay for my education are not actually paying for education but for football. Why should I suffer just so the football coach can make a million a year?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:25:25 +0000

Until this week, Coach Swinney & staff were near the bottom, if not the very bottom, of football salary for staff, in the conference.

Clemson has just put them up to average in the conference territory, after a 9-5, ACC Atlantic winning year.

Athletics at Clemson are paid for by tickets, sponsorships, licensed sales, etc., not by tax dollars. The only real tax payer expense here is infrastructure and security on actual game days.

IPTAY itself only pays for scholarships, academic support for athletes, administrative support and some other functions, like a limited marching and pep band expenses. IPTAY does not pay coaches salaries, for instance.

A bigger issue is the academic side of Clemson borrowing or transferring money from athletics to the academic side.

By: CNSYD

CNSYD — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:04:19 +0000

FITS, I did some checking to refute your statement that coaches salaries are paid by tax dollars because they are on some list. This applies to Clemson but I imagine the same holds true for USC east. Athletics is considered an auxiliary enterprise and therefore must generate its own funding. They do NOT get tax dollars. They have to pay the university for use of facilities such as Littlejohn. Coaches get a salary which comes from ticket revenue, conference payouts, etc. Some coaches get additional income (not considered salary) from deals with companies like Nike, BiLo, etc. Again, not tax dollars. If athletics builds facilities, they get money from private sources which may include booster clubs. Booster clubs do NOT contribute to coaches’ income. If the facility is of such a cost, like stadium expansion, that private funds will not cover it, the school may ask the state for a bond bill. This does NOT mean the state pays any money out. Only that they will back the bond if the school defaults. A charge for the bond is added to every ticket sold to generate the revenue to pay off the bond.

By: sorepaw

sorepaw — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:43:02 +0000

There is a clear message about priorities here, even though revenue sports at a university like Clemson are meant to be self-supporting.

But John Bednar as a candidate for the Board of Trustees?

This is the guy who once applied to become President of the American University of Paris.

Clemson University needs to get real.

Bednar is constitutionally incapable of getting real.

So an article like this ends up undermining itself.

By: CNSYD

CNSYD — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:03:29 +0000

Go Cocks, your “argument” is also flawed. Without crime law enforcement and the courts can’t exist. So law enforcement and the courts should be the biggest advocates of crime.

By: CNSYD

CNSYD — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:00:00 +0000

No Name, if those you want to remove are life trustees, neither David, you nor I have the power to do that. Please tell me who all would be in charge under your sanity scenario?

By: No Name

No Name — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:02:26 +0000

Troutman knows all…. support his suit…. and the broom to sweep these carpetbagging bastards out and return the University to sanity.

Come on David do the right thing before you become Senator.

By: Go Cocks

Go Cocks — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:54:04 +0000

Could Clemson operate without a football program? – Yes. Could Clemson’s football program operate without the university? – No. The same is true for USC or any other major university. Hence, the argument that the football program is self-supporting is inherently flawed.

By: vicupstate

vicupstate — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:27:00 +0000

One thing is always certain in SC. Football always comes first. ALWAYS. Nothing is more important, or more protected.