The problem is with the $8 million in "expenses." How in the world do they get to $8 million? If you add in the full (not cash) cost of $50k per player, that's only $600,000. It appears that they are adding on overhead that totals more than 100% of direct costs, no matter what you add in for tuition and room and board, coaches, ass't coaches, travel. No way to get anywhere close to the $8 million they're claiming.
They have football, with nearly 100 players, and what has to be far more medical expenses and coaches, weight trainers etc, as only double the expenses of- wait for it!!- women's basketball with only a dozen players? Absolutely no way!
I suspect that there is massive reallocation of AD office and even football expenses around to WCBB and other sports in order to minimize the massive losses in the football program.
Smells even more now.
Would love to see a real journalist look into these numbers and ferret out the truth. I think women's basketball is being victimized by men's football to cover up the real and ugly numbers.
Complete file can be found here:
Equity in Athletics (Federally mandated annual filing for Reporting year 7/1/18>6/30/19)
Definitions here:
Equity in Athletics User Guide
>Operating (Game-Day) Expense by Team > Operating (Game-Day) expenses are all expenses an institution incurs attributable to home, away, and neutral-site intercollegiate athletic contests (commonly known as “game-day expenses”) for
(A) Lodging, meals, transportation, uniforms, and equipment for coaches, team members, support staff (including, but not limited to team managers and trainers), and others; and
(B) Officials
The Operating (Game-Day) Expenses category is a subset of the Total Expenses category. This means that the dollar amount you enter for Operating (Game-Day) Expenses should also be included on the Total Expenses screen.
The original source of the funds used to pay operating expenses (e.g., fund-raising organizations) does not exempt the institution from reporting those expenses. If the funds are expended by the institution for one of the purposes listed in the statute, the expenses must be reported.
Include:
- Expenses incurred by a team during an entire year, not just those incurred during the sports
season of a team (e.g., expenses for tournaments and bowl games).
- Institutional expenditures only. Report expenses for unfunded or non-institutionally funded varsity teams as zero. If your institution has teams that it only partially funds, report those expenses it does not fund as zero.
Do Not Include:
- Categories of expenses that are not specifically listed above.
- Capital expenses and appearance fees or guarantees paid to visiting teams.
- Facility rental, stadium/arena staff or other expenses not specifically listed above.
- Expenses not attributable to a particular sport, such as general and administrative overhead. Those expenses must only be included on the Total Expenses screen in the Not Allocated by Gender/Sport field.
- Practice equipment<
UConn WBB Operating Expense = $2,368,136.
>>Total Expenses
Expenses are expenses attributable to intercollegiate athletic activities. This includes appearance guarantees and options, athletically related student aid, contract services, equipment, fundraising activities, operating expenses, promotional activities, recruiting expenses, salaries and benefits, supplies, travel, and any other expenses attributable to intercollegiate athletic activities.
Your total expenses include, and are expected to be greater than, your recruiting expenses, operating expenses, athletically related student aid, and coaches’ salaries combined.
The basis for determining whether an expense should be included in an institution’s EADA data is simply whether the item was attributable to the institution’s intercollegiate athletic activities.
Include in Team Expenses:
- Actual amounts expended, not budgeted or estimated amounts.
- Athletics aid awarded to non-athletes (student-managers, graduate assistants, trainers) who serve a specific team. Prorate these expenses by team if the individual serves more than one team. If the individual serves all teams, please put the athletics aid in the Not Allocated field.
- Incurred expenses for non-competitive cheerleading (pep squad), mascots and pep band which support the varsity team.
- Benefits paid to coaches by the institution.
- The dollar amount for items donated to the institution for intercollegiate athletics (for example, bats and shoes) if a dollar amount can be assigned.
Do not include in Team Expenses:
- Capital expenditures or debt service.
- Money for indirect facilities (i.e., the value of facilities and services provided by the
institution but not charged to athletics).
Expenses Not Allocated by Gender/Sport are expenses not attributable to a particular sport.
Include in Not Allocated Expenses:
- Expenses for varsity athletics staff not attributable to a particular sport, such as, athletic director, assistant athletic director, trainers, support staff.
- General and administrative overhead.
- If your school anticipated fielding a team, however, there were no participants and/or games for that team, place all related expenses in the Not Allocated field. You can add a caveat to explain the situation.<<
UConn WBB Total Expense = $7,853,769.
UConn Expense Not Allocates by Gender/Sport = $19,250,422.
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