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Why can't Oregon athletes get state
Tuition Aid
There are two routes to follow if you want to be
competitive in the Pacific-10 Conference.
There is the route USC or UCLA have followed,
which is to use a long-established tradition of
winning to generate high gate receipts and heavy
alumni donations, says Rick Bay, Oregon athletic
director.
Or there is the route of the University of
Arizona, which received $2.5 million in aid last
year from its state legislature, Bay adds.
Arizona is not unique. Every state in the
western United States supplies at least some
form of aid to the athletic departments at its ma
jor universities.
Every state, except Oregon.
And because the University doesn’t have a
large population base to draw gate receipts and
donations from, Bay believes the state of Oregon
must join the rest of the west and provide some
sort of aid to the athletic departments at its two
major state universities.
Without it, Oregon may be consigned to being
a perpetual Pac-10 also-ran, believes Bay.
“We don’t have the money commitment from
the state and the instituiton that we need,” says
Bay. “Pres. (Paul) Olum is philosophically com
mitted, but he can’t give us the financial commit
ment we need to be competitive.”
athletes in the minor sports,” Bay emphasizes.
“Because of tuition waivers, the University of
Arizona can virtually go to the limit with every
sport on scholarships.
“The state simply absorbs the cost,” says Bay.
Bay is not thrilled by the proposition of trying
to guide a tuition waiver bill through the difficult
waters of the State Board of Higher Education
and the state legislature.
But he says it is his last hope if he is to turn the
University into a competitive force in Pac-10
athletics.
“We can’t cut anymore,” Bay says. "We’re at
the minimum number of sports to stay in the con
ference, our salaries are at rock bottom, and our
facilities are not what they should be.
“Ticket sales and contributions fluctuate up
and down so much that it is hard to plan using
them as a base. We need a substantial, solid base
of money, and we won’t be consistently com
petitive unless we get help."
Dan Williams, University vice president for ad
ministration and finance, couldn’t agree more
with Bay's assessment.
“What Rick sees is a reflection of what I
believe,” says Williams, who sees the current pro
blem as a recent phenomenon.
“We have to stabilize our intercollegiate pro
gram's finances to stay in our league," he says.
"That means we have to find a way to be com
petitive in terms of facilities, coaching, recruiting
and scholarship aid."
The options are cutting expenses or increasing
revenue.
Williams believes Bay is doing a good job of
"cash management” of the athletic department.
"If you have your costs in hand, you have to turn
to revenue, and there we are not as big as we
would want to be.”
There are two major avenues to increasing the
athletic department’s revenues, he says. One is
through donations, which Williams believes Bay
has moved to increase by the hiring of Bill Byrne,
associate athletic director.
The other is state aid.
That option leaves Williams a bit leery,
because he sees a state with scarce resources
and fears the possibility of money for the athletic
department coming from funds already allocated
to an academic program.
The needs of the athletic department are
great, but not greater than the needs of our
academic enterprise," Williams asserts.
Both Williams and Bay agree that lobbying the
state board and then the legislature would have
Bay points to the University
of Arizona as the "most glar
ing" example of the type of
state aid needed by the Univer
sity athletic department.
In Arizona, the state
legislature has granted the
University of Arizona up to 315
tuition waivers per year to
athletes who receive tuition aid
as part of their scholarship.
In Oregon, however, the
University athletic department
has to pay the University every
time it awards tuition aid to an
athlete as part of their
scholarship.
“If the legislature paid the
tuition of all the Kids that we
have on scholarship, we could
save as much as $1 million per
year,” Bay says.
And if the University were
given 315 tuition waivers, all of
the sports that were cut could
be brought back and many of
the athletes put on scholar
ships, says Bay.
The money that would be
freed could go toward better
salaries for coaches, improve
ment of facilities and their
maintenance, and even more
scholarship aid to minor sports,
according to Bay.
"One reason we don't have
competitive teams in many of
the minor sports is that we
simply can't finance enough
scholarships for those sports,"
he says.
"If we had their tuition waiv
ed, we could have a lot more
depth in terms of talented
Oregon s state legislature is the only one west of the Rocky Mountains that hasn't
voted in a bill allowing tuition waivers for scholarship athletes.
to be done jointly by the Univer
sity and Oregon State.
“We wouldn't do it alone,”
Williams says.
Bay says there is still
background research to be
done, but that once it is com
pleted the University will try to
convince the state board of the
merits of tuition waivers.
Although Bay is sure objec
tions will be raised to the plan,
he thinks that the pluses
outweigh the minuses.
“I think it is an important in
vestment to make," Bay says,
referring to intercollegiate
sport’s impact on the state and
its communities.
He bases his argument on
two points — that inter
collegiate athletics is a
priceless form of advertising
for the University and its com
munity, and that it generates
revenue for the local economy.
“You would have to spend
millions of dollars on radio, TV
and newspaper ads to get the
publicity our athletic teams
generate for the University,” he
says.
As an example of inter
collegiate athletic’s ability to
generate revenue for the com
munity, Bay points to last
weeks Oregon-Washington
game at Autzen Stadium, which
set a stadium attendance
record of 44,303.
Bays says $3 million was
brought into the community the
weekend of that game.
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Gate receipts are a major source of income for the University athletic department, and last Saturday’s
Oregon-Washington game at Autzen Stadium drew a record crowd of 44,303.
sports to know that is good for the economy,” he
says.
Bay sees a long road ahead in trying to get
some form of state aid, yet he believes it “has to
happen eventually.”
“It has to, because we need help.”
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