I guess I’m not surprised that Clemson has decided to raise additional athletic fees on the backs of students. Other universities do it.
I know student fees help fund athletics, but has UH talked about a dedicated athletic fee to charge students per semester?
Last I checked UH students fought against UH athletic fees some 6-7 years ago
I thought they did some 6-7 months ago.
From the article: “The school had long resisted such fees and has not charged its students for single-game available tickets to athletic events.”
UH has a Student Service Fee as part of the tuition. When I was there (90’s) the document clearly stated that is why we got into athletic events. So the tickets wern’t actually “free”.
UH instituted an athletic fee somewhere around 2010-2012. I forget. I know I voted yes, as a student. That was to help get the new stadium. Don’t remember how long it was supposed to last or what.
There was changes to how they did all those fees in the 90s vs. how they do them now. Some sort of push to lower fees or be more transparent or something, I forget. I remember getting fee bills in the 90s like that. Not sure I paid as much attention when I wasn’t getting a fee bill in the mail or advised to take a copy of it to class.
Yes for those keeping score, I was a Freshman in the mid 90s and graduated in 2012. With gaps in-between.
Found it. $45 and it was supposed to last no longer than 25 years.
I remember a vote like that when I was at UH, it was for the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center.
$48,451,950 of the athletics budget comes from student fees and direct institutional support which is 62% of the budget…just because there is a “student fee” (even not called an athletics fee) that does not mean that many more dollars are not also transferred over from the academic side
currently Clemson is at $6,387,497 which is 4.04% of their budget
one can see the numbers here
https://knightnewhousedata.org/fbs/aac/university-houston
and here
that direct transfer is one of the largest in all of the NCAA…and being in the Big 12 is not going to reduce it significantly unless the budget is going to remain at the very lowest end of the P5
Funds go both ways really. The scholarship dollars that go to pay the tuition back to the campus, other costs of institutional support as well. There’s a great book on the subject I talked about on here before (actually got it when we won the Peach Bowl).
Saturday Millionaires: How Winning Football Builds Winning Colleges by Kristi Dosh
She’s also someone good to follow on Twitter for nil stuff.
every school can make the same claims
the difference is a lot of schools are funding those scholarships with dollars that were actually EARNED by the athletics department and then paid to the university instead of doing what you are claiming
both of the databases given above use the exact same methods of accounting for all of the universities to make the comparisons
The funds for scholarships are donated to the athletic department for that purpose, just like at every other school. Still it gets transferred to the academic side in the same way. But yes other schools have more revenue as a part of their athletics budget. Hopefully those economics will change in the coming years for the Cougars.
Also as has been pointed out before you should look at the methodology.
In 2015, a category was added to allow an athletics department to deduct from its operating revenues certain amounts that it transfers back to the school. This amount cannot exceed the sum of student fees and direct institutional support that the department receives from the school.
That was long before the NCAA/House lawsuit and settlement. Doubt student fees go away. Would fully expect to see more schools charge similar fees.
From what I know:
UH charges student fees, part of those fees go to athletics, and such allotment is approved by the SFAC.
In 2012, a proposal was made for students to vote on raising such fees by 45 per semester, and as a return, guarantee free tickets 4 lyfe pretty much.
In 2024, in response to the lack of transparency from the AD as to what is being done with the money, the SFAC and SGA proposed to cut 1.5 million from that allotment. This doesn’t come from the 45 per semester. Athletics was like “yeah it goes to our bottom line” and the students got pissed and wanted to allocate it to CAPS and other things that truly needed it since Football games weren’t fun for students anyway.
I doubt UH is going to add to it. Khator and Nunez openly said they do NOT want to charge this stuff on the backs of students, and Pez was failing to fundraise from the younger and small money fanbase compared to the old fanbase that keeps bailing them out.
Seriously, at some point it looked weird that the basketball postseason tailgate was a bunch of old people freaking out and getting hype over the Coogs. Be a fan all you want, but if that’s all they could show, then the fanbase will have a drop off when they croak.
What tailgate are you referring to? Why is that tailgate the barometer?
From reading the Clemson article, part of Clemson’s reason for this student fee is to prepare for the $21M in revenue that large schools, and I presume UH would be included, will be distributing to athletes annually. The final hearing for this new revenue sharing model is April 7, 2025, but it appears some schools are preparing for revenue sharing now. I have not read anything specific that UH is doing to prepare for this new revenue sharing model, other than they have acknowledged that UH needs to do a better job of fund raising. Below is an AP October 2024 article on the revenue sharing model.
https://apnews.com/article/ncaa-college-sports-nil-pay-players-b7b87c81f44ac6e32955ef89e61ca893
Part of the 2 billion settlement allowed the pay for play and it doesn’t stop future lawsuits. The deal is all athletics who agree to this and get paid forgo their right to sue in the future. The ones who opt out don’t get paid and can sue. However their is a clause that states if too many athletes opt out then the agreement gets voided and all provisions of it like pay for play and the ncaa paying goes away and is null and void. It’s bc the ncaa and schools want most athletes to opt in so that lawsuits eventually go away.
Basically charge the students to pay the current students who already get free room and board plus other enticements
What’s an extra couple of student loans payments as long as it goes to rent football players on a game to game basis.
It was likely during a March Madness Coogs on the Road event. It showed the much older fanbase.
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