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Good Morning TSAIKOS!

Looking forward to FB season…..not that it matters, but it was both funny and strange way back when, the FB team spent 3 weeks in the barracks at Pearl Harbor….you had to wear shirts with sleeves and socks with sandles per the rules. We then moved to the deck below the pool and slept outside using the locker room for bathroom and shower. Did not bother us at all but sleep was a premium when you had that many guys in that open space. A few of us share stories about some of those “characters” that disappeared in the middle of the night never to be heard of again—-Go Warriors!!!!

Aloha kakahiaka.

What’s with the dorms? Can’t do your own laundry? No kokua from your own school?

Who ever controls this, needs to get their head(s) out of their butts and… at the very least… provide regular beds for the team during training camp. How idiotic is this picture?

This is supposed to be a Division I school with a Division III mentality. Yes, I know it happens most years that they have to sleep on cots during training camp, but when will it improve or end???

IMUA RAINBOW WARRIORS!!!

I can see Ben Jay pushing that very large rock up a steep hill. I wonder how long he will continue to do this when it appears that the “hill” seems to go on forever.

Someone mentioned winning cures all, but it was also shown that even in the winning years there still loomed the deficit, the use of the dance studio to save dollars, poor facilities and on and on. The system here is probably more broken that others (with travel subsidies, no stadium revenue, no parking revenue for on campus sporting events, etc.) yet I do not believe that UH is alone.

A deficit is a deficit, but it seems that a $2M dollar deficit is a small one, given the obstacles to success.

Aloha all!

At this point, I cannot say whether I am a Ben J., fan or foe? It is too early one, and I personally, don’t have enough information before me to make such a decision. That said, the university and that matter, the state, have placed before him an equally unenviable and untenable position.

One need only look at the current fiscal shape of sports across the nation to see that we is occuring here is not some form of mismangement (although we can certainly do bette) or malfeasance, but rather almost the norm for any D1 program. Consider this: Stanford University which won the Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup, which goes to the country’s top performing athletic department, over 16 times in recent history, has struggled to maintian financial balance with its own program.

The Cardinal have won at least one national championship for 33 consecutive years. Stanford sponsors 35 NCAA-competing varsity teams — 19 for women, 15 for men and one coed squad — and all of them do pretty well on the national stage.

But even at Stanford — times are downright difficult in the current economic recession. Just several years ago, Stanford eliminated 21 staff positions in its athletic department. Across the country, Stanford isn’t alone in its financial difficulties. Many athletic departments are struggling to balance their financial books after receiving less funding from state legislatures and fewer donations from alumni and boosters.

Stanford’s economic woes are directly tied to the loss in value of its endowments, which are used to cover scholarship funding and other operating costs. In 2008, the Cardinal’s athletic endowment was worth about $520 million, or 3 times the size of entire UH endowmenet!!!? But the endowment lost about 20 to 30 percent of its value when the financial markets went south, dropping its current value to about $410 million. The value of the school’s general endowment fell from $17.2 billion in 2008 to about $12 billion that fiscal year.

As a result, Bowlsby will have to cut $3.1 million from the athletic department’s budget next year and $4.5 million in 2011.

This is similar to many schools across the country have already been forced to cut sports teams. Among them:

• Pac-10 school Washington shut down its men’s and women’s swimming teams in an attempt to save $1.2 million, which is about half of what the athletic department needs to cut from its budget.

• The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which mostly competes in sports at the NCAA Division III level, cut eight of its sports teams (Alpine skiing, golf, wrestling, competitive pistol, men’s and women’s ice hockey, and men’s and women’s gymnastics) to save $1.5 million on its athletic budget. MIT students even kidnapped the school’s mascot, Tim the Beaver, in protest of the cuts.

• Big East member Cincinnati plans to eliminate scholarship funding for three of its men’s sports (track, cross country and swimming) over the next four years. The plan will save the school about $400,000 annually.

Elsewhere, Indiana State dropped its men’s and women’s tennis teams; Maine cut its men’s soccer and women’s volleyball teams; and Vermont dropped its baseball and softball programs. All told, nearly 30 schools that compete at some NCAA level have been forced to drop at least one sports program.

Across the country, athletic departments are searching for ways to save money. Colorado State cut more than $160,000 from its budget, most of which came from trimming marketing and facilities costs. UNLV eliminated insurance for its walk-on players and asked coaches (with the exception of the football team) to conduct more daytime practices to save on lighting costs. Florida International’s athletic department won’t fund the cheerleading squad, and it cut marching band and will invite high school bands to play at its home football games. Some schools in Texas stopped providing complimentary soft drinks to their employees and are exploring ways to save on utility costs.

Many schools, including Michigan, Ohio State and Wisconsin, have stopped publishing media guides and recruiting brochures and are instead producing DVDs, which will save on printing and shipping costs. Boise State even eliminated land-line phones from some of its offices and asked coaches to use only cell phones.

A few coaches, including those at Arizona, Arizona State, Clemson and Wisconsin, are taking unpaid furloughs.

Some conferences, including Conference USA, the Mid-American Conference, the Southern Conference and the WAC, have decreased the number of teams competing in their postseason tournaments. Some leagues have also eliminated gifts (duffel bags, shirts) for student-athletes and will no longer hold preseason media days.

In short, nearly everyone in college sports is looking for any way to cut costs and raise additional money. From my perspective, there are hard decisions, but the solutions are fairly straight-forward and easy. One; raise the student fee, ours is way below the norm, and one could elminate almost half the debt by having a fee close to $200. Two, there needs to be a permanent legislative appropriation from the state, cost indexed to meet the need of the UHAD, when the football program cannot produce the sufficent revenue for the other programs in the department. The rationale for this is very direct–it’s our flagship university; we have a limited population in which to draw both fanbase and tax revenue, and our geographic isolation, dicates higher travel and logistical outlays.

These are not necessarily situations for billionaires and large donors to resolve, rather it is the prime responsibilty of both the greater university (upper campus) and the leadership of the state–period.

As always, my lousy 2 cents…

10–Old Diver…you are indeed correct, but what I know about any legislative process, coupled with appropriations, is that it is not limited by creativity, e.g. there is a way to meet the need.

Seems like poor decision. Dance studio is horrible. Players should be in dorms for fall camp. Penny wise; pound foolish.

boola:

take your #9 and send it to the Star-Advertiser for the “editorial” section.

let’s light the “fire” and see what happens – as always, excellent recommendation(s) should also be sent to the Star-Advertiser for the editorial section

What’s said in tsaikoland, stays in tsaikoland….lol.

Think the easiest way is to raise the athletic fee instead of waiting for the State and the UH to mutually agree to provide greater financial support for athletics. Immediate injection of revenue is needed to help the athletic department keep its head above water. If not, athletics will continue to run in the red and the deficit will reach levels to the point prior to it being forgiven last year. I really don’t see any other option at this point.

LPGA news: Michele Wie tied for 3rd finishing 1st round at 67, 1 stroke off leaders.

crazy…its like grandma charging her grandkids for a sleepover.

Guud Morning Tsaikos…bootiful day.

can’t do own laundry?…must be talking about the bedding…personal laundry must be ok.

interesting with the record level stock market, endowment funding is being withdrawn from colleges…I guess they all want to buy expensive real estate and toys…

belated…

ALOHA!
uncle sol kaukukukui thanks for the memories.
rest in peace as you now share the joy above.

how come we have to pay for seeing the football team on tv; it should be for free.

30. Why are you trolling?

Just a heads up… This impostor in #30 is posing as me in numerous blogs and also going into Reardons blog as “Jeezy” trying to make me look stupid. I’m sure its a matter of time before he gets caught, exposed, and blocked from all the blogs…

Hopefully in the near future, we need to register for screen names or sign in through facebook like most other blogs work throughout the country. Need to weed out these trolls and stalkers without lives.

UH needs another telethon to raise money for dorm rooms and proper accomodations during training camp.

i agree tommui.
“fake” posters should have their IP’s blocked.

JM2375 #32

Morning!

Can you give me the chapter and verse on “the legislation that gave UH autonomy also specified a MINIMUM amount of State funding be appropriated to UH each year.” Do you know the specific amount for the State funding?

Thanks!

At least in the old days, the football team had Hale Anuenue dorm, right off campus. Larry Price was the live-in supervisor.

http://archives.midweek.com/content/columns/therightprice_article/uh_dorms_need_rules_not_cops/

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Is the UH in the red? Of course not.

2 mil is only a portion of the profits the UH makes off the athletic department.

Upper campus should pay off any deficit every year…or give the athletic department all the revenue they generate.

Just curious. Which generates more revenue for the Stadium Authority – the rent UH pays or the revenues generated by parking, vendor fees, signage and score board advertising.

48.

Yeah I’ve experienced them as well. The freshman towers and the apartment buildings were not very clean as many people are aware. Frear Hall was a great addition and they’ve renovated a couple others but it’s still difficult to even get a room on campus.

Counselor Mui – that was a long time ago back when I was employed at UH, which means it was in the 20th century. I don’t remember the specifics.

Don’t remember who suggested it but I thought it was a good idea to expand and replicate the fundraising event that the baseball team does in the SSC before their season starts. The athletic department could make it a huge even by TC Ching field and feature local chefs and even the KCC culinary students as well. Perhaps doubling that event with the spring football event since they already have that Murphy’s event in the Fall.

Good Morning Gangeez! 😉

Thanks for your in depth post boolakanaka! It helps provide context for UH’s own situation.

However, the crap about the dorm stuff – why do we have regents or President if they can’t provide such a simple solution to such a profoundly troubling situation? Sleeping in the dorms is how we thank our Warriors? Unbelievable.

56.

UH could use that idea of teaming up a restaurant with a sport and apply it to gamedays. Granted for football it would have to wait until UH has control of a stadium, but they could assign certain games to certain restaurants and that restaurant could work a booth at the game and sell their food. UH gets a portion of the profits, so does the restuarant and especially for restaurants trying to get their name out, it’s easy exposure to thousands of people.

Good morning everyone!

Wouldn’t UH giving free or reduced dorm rooms to athletes be some sort of NCAA violation, since it wouldn’t be offered to all students?

Good point about the cots though…maybe UH should buy their own, but the maintenance and storage expenses of the cots at a government institution would probably exceed one time rental costs. I wonder if the Red Cross can help. Is the SSC and dance studios an emergency shelter?

SteveM: The cots fold into a neat little bundle. 100 cots could fit in a spare office. Easily.

There are 51 state representatives, 25 state senators, 15 BOR and 9 members of the Stadium Authority – total of 100. The 100 cots could be stored in each’s office.

there are many who believe the UH athletes are “good neighbors”, but they have their college fun – sometimes goo, sometimes bad.

I remember my last summer working for UH maintenance and we were selected to clean the Mid-Pac dorms that were used to house summer school students from the mainland – what a bunch of rats – they hung up their used underwear, bras with messages on where to reach them later, soiled sanitary napkins, wrote messages on the mirrors and walls with lip stick, used condoms with notes about the male for each one used, etc.

dirty and filthy — believe Mid-Pac finally decided to stop the rentals because of how the rooms ere left after UH summer school.

ah. life as a college student

My son is graduating from U Dub in a few weeks. The keynote speaker at the ceremony will be Steve Ballmer, future owner of the Clippers.

I’ve always liked Boola’s insights #(9). Not only insightful, but an eloquent writer as well. Thanks Boola. Someone will get the message one day.

Mahalo Boola see a lot of good people come out of Aiea and Halawa. All these great simple ideas will just fly over the head of the people in the position to make decisions but Tsaikos keep them coming.

74…wow. make A.

Boya jr just landed at HNL. looking forward to eating eating eating

a lottery system has been on the agenda for so many sessions that it has become a regular “hand-me-down” which is looked at to give the residents a feeling that they are doing something, but it will never happen

they say too many organizations { police – religious – non-profits, etc.} are used as “reasons” (more like excuses to me) the bill fails each and every year – some say the criminal element will takeover the lottery and corrupt people including police officers – hell, don’t they do it now?

a well thought “bill” to set the parameters of operation and use of funds may be enticing enough for passage, but let those “greedy” legislators touch it and they will put all funds into the state general fund so they can “tap” it whenever it suits their “reason” why they need the money { just like the hurricane fund } – union pay raises, etc.

lottery money must go into a separate fund where the legislature is banned from touching – profits goes to 1) education and 2) improving state medical facilities and 3) set aside $700,000 for 7 separate winners { to start } and increase it until it reaches into the millions when the pot is full

I try to play the lottery every time I enter a state that participates – say $20 each for the national and state lottery – not so much for winning, but just for fun – a collectors item for an album

posters are boycotting this blog?

hello world!

good morning Viet Nam!

yabadahbahdoo!!!!!!!!!!!

No ones taking bout football dats why

86–reading some financial papers on Steve’s bid said the following (paraphrasing): that most of the parties knew going in, that given the very large LA market, the placement of two of the leagues youngest stars (Blake and Chris), this being a negotiation year for TV contracts/rights (only expected to rise), and that Steve had previously been outbid on the Kings–he delved into the wow factor e.g wanted to distance himself from all other bidders. The common thought had the bids at 1.5 to 1.8 billion, and he purposely outbid everyone by 300 million. And to boot, is paying straight up in cash–that’s a wow factor in and of itself–man, has no liquidity problems.

I’m not too worried- one, as the former Vikings owner, Red Coombs, once said; you gotta be the dumbest kid in the classroom not to make money in professional sports. And the former Harvard, economics major, and former Microsoft head is not a dull bulb.

Well, as to George Clooney, I’m very curious the under/over action as to him actually getting married.lol