I've had it explained to me before, but I know the internet will know more than me on this one.
If you make a donation to athletics, it can't go to a specific sport, correct? They take the donation and add it to the pile then spread it across sports by some percentage of their required budget evenly?
Does the Dugout Club have funds that go directly to baseball? If so, is there a limit on the amount of money that can attained by the Dugout Club? It seems like I used to see more about the club, but not as much recently. I heard a lot of the benefit of it was being local enough to attend events, but I don't know if they do those anymore or if they still do the jacket or anything else that goes with it.
Can the school earmark money for projects instead? Could the athletic department say "we are opening a project to build bleachers outside of Olsen" for example and then start taking donations for that directly, or is there still something about how money would have to be spread around the athletic department?
I've heard our baseball team is pretty close to even or slightly profitable. Does anyone have an idea what the annual budget is for the baseball program recently?
There is also the debate about what scholarships are available at other schools for baseball, depending on if they're public or private. Can A&M say "we are creating a baseball athletic/academic scholarship program" and start collecting directly for that to supplement the partial athletic scholarships? Or would the money have to be split across other sports scholarships as well?
And finally, I'm assuming any money that comes in from the new SEC media deal would be split across sports as well correct? We couldn't take a chunk out for baseball to build a lazy river around the outfield or anything?
If you make a donation to athletics, it can't go to a specific sport, correct? They take the donation and add it to the pile then spread it across sports by some percentage of their required budget evenly?
Does the Dugout Club have funds that go directly to baseball? If so, is there a limit on the amount of money that can attained by the Dugout Club? It seems like I used to see more about the club, but not as much recently. I heard a lot of the benefit of it was being local enough to attend events, but I don't know if they do those anymore or if they still do the jacket or anything else that goes with it.
Can the school earmark money for projects instead? Could the athletic department say "we are opening a project to build bleachers outside of Olsen" for example and then start taking donations for that directly, or is there still something about how money would have to be spread around the athletic department?
I've heard our baseball team is pretty close to even or slightly profitable. Does anyone have an idea what the annual budget is for the baseball program recently?
There is also the debate about what scholarships are available at other schools for baseball, depending on if they're public or private. Can A&M say "we are creating a baseball athletic/academic scholarship program" and start collecting directly for that to supplement the partial athletic scholarships? Or would the money have to be split across other sports scholarships as well?
And finally, I'm assuming any money that comes in from the new SEC media deal would be split across sports as well correct? We couldn't take a chunk out for baseball to build a lazy river around the outfield or anything?