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University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Athletic Management
“I think that generalizing about Division I spending is a little dangerous. There are annual budgets in Division I of $100 million and there are annual budgets below $10 million. Athletics spending is an institutional decision. If an institution makes a decision to position athletics at a certain level, that is its prerogative.”
DeLoss Dodds, director of athletics
University of Texas at Austin
Athletic Management
“There are institutions that put a lot of money into their athletics programs because they have a strong commitment to sports and want great programs available on their campuses. Who can argue with that? That is their choice.”
Jamie Pollard, director of athletics
Iowa State University
Athletic Management
“Our constituents want much greater results than we’ve had so far. But we’re a smaller player and we haven’t had the ticket sales and donations to support the type of success they want to see. So we are in the process of laying out a strategic plan to show our constituents what it will cost to have the kind of program they say they want. And we’re telling them, ‘If you really want these results, you are going to have to pay what constituents at other schools are paying to get them.’
“Some people have called it a risky approach, but I feel it’s better to tell people in black and white what it will take. If they want it, they can do it. If they don’t, they don’t. But I believe it would be worse to be the leader of a program where you promise your constituents a certain result and don’t know how you’re going to fund it.”
Former professional football player
ESPN.com (Page 2)
“If you don’t have a circle of influence that tells you being big is beautiful and you only look at what society tells you how you should look, then you’re going to have self-esteem issues. But we always taught our children (University of Oklahoma basketball players Courtney and Ashley Paris) that being big was beautiful, and we were always playing sports, so they knew about the advantages of size.
“Our society paints a picture that girls are supposed to be tiny, but in other cultures like Russia, bigger women are considered very sexy and appealing. That just tells you all of these judgments we put on each other are arbitrary, and there are no set rules as to what a woman should look like or be.”
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Fiscal responsibility
John McCutcheon, director of athleticsUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst
Athletic Management
“I think that generalizing about Division I spending is a little dangerous. There are annual budgets in Division I of $100 million and there are annual budgets below $10 million. Athletics spending is an institutional decision. If an institution makes a decision to position athletics at a certain level, that is its prerogative.”
DeLoss Dodds, director of athletics
University of Texas at Austin
Athletic Management
“There are institutions that put a lot of money into their athletics programs because they have a strong commitment to sports and want great programs available on their campuses. Who can argue with that? That is their choice.”
Jamie Pollard, director of athletics
Iowa State University
Athletic Management
“Our constituents want much greater results than we’ve had so far. But we’re a smaller player and we haven’t had the ticket sales and donations to support the type of success they want to see. So we are in the process of laying out a strategic plan to show our constituents what it will cost to have the kind of program they say they want. And we’re telling them, ‘If you really want these results, you are going to have to pay what constituents at other schools are paying to get them.’
“Some people have called it a risky approach, but I feel it’s better to tell people in black and white what it will take. If they want it, they can do it. If they don’t, they don’t. But I believe it would be worse to be the leader of a program where you promise your constituents a certain result and don’t know how you’re going to fund it.”
Women in sports
Bubba ParisFormer professional football player
ESPN.com (Page 2)
“If you don’t have a circle of influence that tells you being big is beautiful and you only look at what society tells you how you should look, then you’re going to have self-esteem issues. But we always taught our children (University of Oklahoma basketball players Courtney and Ashley Paris) that being big was beautiful, and we were always playing sports, so they knew about the advantages of size.
“Our society paints a picture that girls are supposed to be tiny, but in other cultures like Russia, bigger women are considered very sexy and appealing. That just tells you all of these judgments we put on each other are arbitrary, and there are no set rules as to what a woman should look like or be.”
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