Segiura: Tech examining its cost of attendance

[CuseJacket]

Segiura: Tech examining its cost of attendance

The Tech athletic department will have no influence over the school’s study of its cost-of-living estimate, which is at the low end among power-conference schools.

“Folks are certainly aware that there is now an athletics application for that,” athletic director Mike Bobinski said. “That’s all known information. But it’s not a decision point or an evaluation factor. The number needs to have its integrity in and of itself.”

 

[deeeznutz]

Amen

 

[Northeast Stinger]

The number needs to have its integrity in and of itself.

So this is not like estimating my expenses for the IRS.

 

[Skeptic]

The examples given are examples of how the NCAA already has lost all control over what is going to turn into a corrupt recruiting tool. I don't know about either, but somebody would have to convince me it costs more to attend Tennessee than GT. Unless Georgia taxpayers love education more than what I remember. Before the Alabamas, Tennessees, etc. -- all the SEC schools without question -- are done, the difference will be $8,000 to $10,000 and recruits won't even have to be recruited. They will just line up and hope to be fortunate. The parameters have to be set, and enforced. If "cost of transportation" is good for one school, it has to be for all others, and things like that should not be left to the individual school. We can kid ourselves that the athletic departments won't be involved, but is anybody serious that the factories will not be driving the numbers? It is already sickening, when the NCAA tries to help out the athletes and winds up, predictably enough, loading up the power programs.

 

[zhavenor]

The examples given are examples of how the NCAA already has lost all control over what is going to turn into a corrupt recruiting tool. I don't know about either, but somebody would have to convince me it costs more to attend Tennessee than GT. Unless Georgia taxpayers love education more than what I remember. Before the Alabamas, Tennessees, etc. -- all the SEC schools without question -- are done, the difference will be $8,000 to $10,000 and recruits won't even have to be recruited. They will just line up and hope to be fortunate. The parameters have to be set, and enforced. If "cost of transportation" is good for one school, it has to be for all others, and things like that should not be left to the individual school. We can kid ourselves that the athletic departments won't be involved, but is anybody serious that the factories will not be driving the numbers? It is already sickening, when the NCAA tries to help out the athletes and winds up, predictably enough, loading up the power programs.

It was taken out of the NCAA hands by the power 5 conferences this spring who wanted more authority over rules such as this and the courts. Each school already had say in the matter because they are part of the NCAA. The NCAA is not the bad guy. The rules they have put in place were because schools, members, were cheating. Sometimes blatantly. To answer your point yes this will eventually destroy any semblance of completive balance.

 

[awbuzz]

Intended or not there are consequences... Already appears that schools can put almost anything into the formula. Ex. Travel... Like that is the same for each student...

 

[Whiskey_Clear]

NCAA rules are like our tax code now. Both need to be flushed and replaced.

 

[33jacket]

so exactly how is this apples to apples in evaluation and criteria school to school when tech doesn't include travel and tenn includes almost 2000 in travel? I get that each school has to evaluate for iteself....but shouldn't there be continuity between what is and is not included and what can be and cannot be included?

isn't criteria, guidelines and mandated evaluation supposed to derive an apples to apples outcome? another ncaa joke IMO for the biggest schools to succeed with the most ridiculous evaluations.

 

[Northeast Stinger]

so exactly how is this apples to apples in evaluation and criteria school to school when tech doesn't include travel and tenn includes almost 2000 in travel? I get that each school has to evaluate for iteself....but shouldn't there be continuity between what is and is not included and what can be and cannot be included?

isn't criteria, guidelines and mandated evaluation supposed to derive an apples to apples outcome? another ncaa joke IMO for the biggest schools to succeed with the most ridiculous evaluations.

Yeah, this is going to be problematic if not addressed. Most financial disclosure forms that I know of have uniform questions and standards. You can fill in the blanks however you want, with some justification, but you have to answer the same questions and fill in the same blanks as everyone else.

 

[Skeptic]

It was taken out of the NCAA hands by the power 5 conferences this spring who wanted more authority over rules such as this and the courts. Each school already had say in the matter because they are part of the NCAA. The NCAA is not the bad guy. The rules they have put in place were because schools, members, were cheating. Sometimes blatantly. To answer your point yes this will eventually destroy any semblance of completive balance.

Thanks for the background. I'm so used to the NCAA being the bad guy I can's visualize them not being. So now we will have the situation in which the "honest" schools -- if there be such a thing in the power 5 -- are going to get nailed to the cellar door, and be playing for picnics and food on the grounds while fully half of each conference will be groveling for more TV bucks. Maybe not a bad thing to get away from that and get the cheating right up front. Maybe instead of scouting services for the pros, ask them to start attaching prices for backs, tackles, kickers.