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Here is the 5 year plan from GMU Athletics Director Marvin Lewis that "aims to enhance student-athlete experiences, strengthen resources, raise competitiveness, curate storytelling and engagement opportunities, and cultivate a championship culture"

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“Patriots United. Together We Thrive.” is Athletics’ vision to strengthen George Mason’s competitive future

The George Mason assistant vice president and director of Intercollegiate Athletics recently unveiled his vision with an ambitious five-year strategic plan called “Patriots United. Together We Thrive.” The plan aims to enhance student-athlete experiences, strengthen resources, raise...
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psyclone said:
From the text just prior to listing the schools and the amounts:

"And finally, we can only obtain data from schools that respond to open records requests. Private schools, like Furman, Penn, BYU, etc do not have to respond to FOIAs, and thus do not publish their MFRS reports. A few public schools, like Pitt, Temple, UCF, Delaware and Delaware State, are exempt from state open records laws. A handful of other schools have not yet responded to our repeated requests, either because they limit FOIAs to in-state residents (so we have to pay a stand-in), or because they’re simply very slow at responding to requests.
We are currently missing data from Air Force, Alabama State, Alabama A&M, Alcorn State, Army, Coppin State, ETSU, Georgia Tech, Florida, FIU, Jackson State, Morehead State, Morgan State, North Alabama, Texas Southern, Troy, South Alabama, UNC-Asheville, UNC-Greensboro, UC-Santa Barbara, UL-Monroe, UMBC, UT-Chattanooga, Tennessee State, and UT-Martin. "

So,most, but not all, of the public institutions. Also from what they said earlier, specific to basketball.
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The three-man-weave guys somehow managed to get data from everyone a few years ago but they only did two iterations of their budget spreadsheet and it’s out of date now. It’s too bad they didn’t keep up with it (but it sounded rather labor intensive so understand why they stopped).
 
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How much is the BOV "donating"?
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Are we good with cutting several sports to fund basketball? That's probably the only way money flows into bball. Im still shocked they gave 3 million under the House Settlement. Btw,, is that 3 mil to both mens and womens bball to share or just mens?
 
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GSII said:
Are we good with cutting several sports to fund basketball? That's probably the only way money flows into bball. Im still shocked they gave 3 million under the House Settlement. Btw,, is that 3 mil to both mens and womens bball to share or just mens?
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That's a hard no! The gov't's, i.e. the University's, money is extremely fungible, so it can easily be moved around. Meaning, they cut sports and, oh look, they have money to build another academic building. My point is, the cost of the other sports, non basketball, really is a drop in the bucket compared to the overall budget of the University. If the university wants to fully fund basketball and the NIL, it can, but does the will exist? That's the issue.

As an example, did you vote for Virginia to institute the lottery to find education? Great! Lottery money goes to education, but all the other money that was going to education will now go somewhere else that is 'needed.' It's the old government bait and switch. It happens all the time (from both the left and right), and citizens constantly fall for it.
 
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GSII said:
Are we good with cutting several sports to fund basketball? That's probably the only way money flows into bball. Im still shocked they gave 3 million under the House Settlement. Btw,, is that 3 mil to both mens and womens bball to share or just mens?
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@GSII Are you open to sending an email to the board of visitors urging them to allocate more money for MBB and WBB? We both clearly care and want Mason to do well.
 
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It’s really not all that fungible. If you take money from academic programs to fund basketball the departments either have to make up the hole you just put in their budget or make cuts.

If you’re talking about the capital budget (that is facilities and infrastructure), that’s pretty much allocated for that purpose and no other. Sure, they can decide not build that academic building to fund some other athletics facility, but they aren’t going to move infrastructure money to pay players.

As for “what’s a few hundred more dollars in student fees?” They’re already paying almost $2,000 a year in fees…

Some of you guys are advocating doubling our basketball budget just for player salaries. Thats not an insignificant increase.
 
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It’s really not all that fungible. If you take money from academic programs to fund basketball the departments either have to make up the hole you just put in their budget or make cuts.

If you’re talking about the capital budget (that is facilities and infrastructure), that’s pretty much allocated for that purpose and no other. Sure, they can decide not build that academic building to fund some other athletics facility, but they aren’t going to move infrastructure money to pay players.

As for “what’s a few hundred more dollars in student fees?” They’re already paying almost $2,000 a year in fees…

Some of you guys are advocating doubling our basketball budget just for player salaries. Thats not an insignificant increase.
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I agree they won't do certain things, and that was my point. The will doesn't exist amongst the academics in the admin because they likely don't believe sports are important. And I understand the raising student fees issue. My daughter has been at Mason for 7 years now, and my son went for 5 years within that time.

So, what next?
 
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I agree they won't do certain things, and that was my point. The will doesn't exist amongst the academics in the admin because they likely don't believe sports are important. And I understand the raising student fees issue. My daughter has been at Mason for 7 years now, and my son went for 5 years within that time.

So, what next?
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Wait, is this an Animal House joke?
 
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Still nothing wrong with paying an extra $100. Presumably that could raise another $3 million to add to the current $3 Mill rev share plus NIL. Maybe the game is too rigged for the p5's but if we can find a way to get into the dance and win games, the profile of the school increases. Increased profile = better student applicants.
 
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Anyone know how that 21% allocation to athletics stacks up vs our peers?
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vcu: total resident student fees: $2,979 (athletics $929) = 31%

Non-residents have an addition 690 capital outlay fee so they pay 25% of their fees to athletics.

Overall difference of $118 a year between Mason and vcu.

It’s also slightly misleading in that EBA operations and maintenance comes out of the auxiliary bucket and we don’t know how much that is.
 
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