Budgeting Assignment

As a group, we were given a budget of $120,000, with an additional $20,000 given to us from an alumnus. We then calculated the total costs for all the mandatory funding. This total ended up being $151,350. With that calculation, we subtracted our total budget to give us a remainder of $11,350. After getting this balance, we used our four fundraisers for the 4 largest teams to cover the remaining mandatory costs. Once the mandatory funds were accounted for, we decided to add up all the extra expenses, and figure out an efficient, yet fair way to distribute how these items would be paid for. Our plan consisted of adding up all the athletes to find out what our base number was. This number ended up being 459 athletes. Now knowing this, we decided it would be best to enact a pay to participate fee. This made sense, but we also figured it would be unfair to make everyone pay the same fee. Teams with fewer athletes would end up paying more than larger teams and they wouldn’t reap the benefits for it. Therefore, we decided to take what percentage each team consisted of towards the total of extra expenses. The total ended up being $86,400. For example men’s soccer had 20 athletes. We took 20 divided by 459 to give us 4% of the athletes. We then took that 4% times our total of $86,400 and got $3,456. From that, we took the total number of members from that team (20) and divided it evenly to get a value of $173. Men’s soccer would pay $173 a person to participate compared to football who would pay $188 because they make up a larger percentage of the athletes. After repeating this for every team and rounding the numbers, we ended with a positive balance of $167. Of that $167 dollars, we decided it would be best to divide it up and give a bonus to the maintenance department for all of the upcoming projects they would be starting.

Devin Daugherty
Gehrig Dieter
Clay Rolf

Budget Assignment

Our group started with a budget of $120,000 total. We received a generous donation of 20,000 dollars from a football alumnus. Making it a 140,000 total budget. We have 151,350 in expenses that need to get done. We decided to fundraise for four of our teams. We choose three of our larger teams and one team that had a lot of expenses. Those teams were football, downhill skiing, women’s and men’s track. At 60 dollars a person times 219 would raise 13,140 dollars. Making our total budget 153,140. Next we did a pay to play for every player at 35 dollars a person. At 459 people paying 35 dollars this would add 16,065. Making our total budget 169,205. Subtracting our expenses from our total budget it leaves us a total of 17,855 dollars to spend on other things. We took team ranking into consideration and paid $10,000 for the softball team tournament in Florida. We also paid $500 to the women’s track and field team for discus and shot puts. Next we paid for each team that needed new jerseys, which were men’s soccer, women’s soccer, swimming, hockey, and volleyball. This is a total of $7,400. So with a total of $17,900 expenses with 17,855 in budget left we went over by $45. This concludes our group budget.

Dalton Collins
Avery Turner

Budget Allocation Assignment

As a group we started out with a budget of $120,000. We had received donations from a former football player of $20,00, and a former softball player of 10,00. This bringing the total to $150,000. We then had fundraising for four teams, Football: $4,500, Men's/Women's Swimming: $3,600, Women's Track and Field: $3,900, and Men's Track and Field: $3,300. Bringing the total budget to $165,300. We then decided to make each team have a pay to play. Every team varies with the amount they had to pay. Teams that had to pay $125 per player were Football and Hockey. Teams that were required to pay $100 per player was just Men's/Women's Skiing. Teams that were required to pay $75 a player were Men's and Women's Basketball, Baseball, Softball, Men's and Women's Swimming, Men's and Women's Track and Field.Teams that were required to pay $50 per player were Men's and Women's Socceer, Volleyball, Field Hockey, and Cheerleading. This bringing the total budget to $203,050. The things we cut out from the wants were the court resurfacing for both Men's and Women's Basketball, New field equipment for Men's Track and Field, and jerseys from both Hockey and Volleyball. Which leaves us with 3,800 to divide up among all sports.

Team members:
Ellen Chlumecky
Kia Tyus
Katilyn Turski

Budget Allocation Assignment

For the Budget Allocation Assignment, our group decided to spend our budget in a certain way. First we realized that the starting budget would not pay for the needs in bold that had to be met, even with the $20,000 donation. So from there we decided to pick our fundraising teams based off the number of players on that team. The bigger the team, the more money towards the budget. These teams included; Football, Men’s/Women’s Swimming, Women’s Track and Field, and Men’s Track and Field. With the $15,300 in fundraising our new budget went from $140,000 to $155,300, which can cover the bold needs costs. After we had $3,950 left over. At this point I was not able to come to class Thursday due to the stomach flu, so the rest of these decisions are my own. So I decided I would spend the extra money on the teams that were involved in the fundraising. However, Football’s helmets were more than what was left of the leftover budget, so I decided to spend the rest of the money on women’s soccer. This is because they are the next topped rank team with an expense the rest of the budget could cover. Also because I wanted to split the extra money, half and half between women and men’s sports. 

Members of this group include:

Bryce Cylar
Haoyan Gu
Nolan Valleau

 

Budget Allocation Assignment Report

As a group our starting budget was $120,000 for all of the athletic teams. After the donation from an alumnus of $20,000 the budget expanded to $140,000. We then utilized the opportunity to use fundraising for our athletics. Since we were only allowed to choose four teams to put on fundraisers we chose the four largest teams based on number of participants, these included Football, Men’s Track and Field. Women’s Track and Field, and Men’s/Women’s Swimming. After the fundraising took place and $60 per person was raised we added $15,300 more to our budget, and that brought our budget total to $155,300. After figuring out how much money we had to work with our group then looked into the total amount of expenses, specifically focusing on the ‘musts’ of the fifteen different athletic teams. We then broke down all of the sports individually and added up all of their costs that had to be paid. After adding up all fifteen of the athletic team’s costs/expenses they ended up totaling $151,350 in costs/expenses. We instantly subtracted $151,350 from our total budget of $155,300 and had $3,950 left in our budget after paying all of the must costs of all of our athletic teams. Next we analyzed how we should allocate the remaining money from the budget and how would be the best way to do so. Our group looked at all the additional wants from the different athletic teams and realized that none of the additional wants could really be achieved or paid for with our remaining budget, so we decided as a group to allocate the additional funds in what we thought was the most fair way. So we took all the teams that had additional wants, which ended up being thirteen of the fifteen teams, and we divided the remaining dollars in the budget evenly between the thirteen teams. Those thirteen teams ended up each getting $303.84 to go to any additional costs they want to use those extra dollars for. As a group we also mentioned the potential of making students pay to play sports to increase our budget dollars, but we decided not to go down that path so we can offer equal opportunities to all students without personal finances playing a roll in their sport participation. That concludes how our group went about and handled the budget allocation assignment. 

Members of this Group include:

Sam Bowers

Matt Keeling

Ryan Ruhland

Matt Hollo

 

Boys and Girls on Same Team: Kia Tyus

Personally, while student athletes are in high school, I feel like it should be acceptable for boys and girls to play on the same team if there is not a separate team for one of them. For example, most high schools only have a girl’s volleyball team, so it should be okay for a boy to play on the team.

It is a bit ridiculous that people would let a girl play line backer on a football team. Which depending on how you look at it can be promoted as teaching males to hit females. But, when a young boy wants to play field hockey or volleyball they get kicked off the team.

I feel as though people want to fight of women’s rights to have more opportunities than males instead of equality for all. To me, Title IX was about giving women the same opportunities as men. Not trying to give women more opportunities.

It is sad that a young boy on a field hockey team gets kicked of for being too good. What did you expect? He was playing with high schoolers. But, ask yourself this. If a female football player led the league in tackles, would she too get kicked off the team? I personally don’t think so, in fact, I feel like people would praise the female for breaking barriers.

I understand when student athletes move to higher levels of their sport such as college and professional stages. It would be better for teams to be all female or all male for entertainment and safety reasons. But, in high school and lower levels, I feel like it should be acceptable for males and females to be on the same team. Many students can’t help the fact that their school doesn’t offer the sport that they love.

Girls' Hockey or Boys' Hockey? The choice for girls who play hockey: Ellen Chlumecky

Weslowski, G. (2006). Girls’ Hockey or Boys’ Hockey? The choice for girls who play hockey.

Webster Girls Hockey. Retrieved from http://webstergirlshockey.tripod.com/id24.html

The article “Girls’ Hockey or Boys’ Hockey? The choice for girls who play hockey” is about the struggle for female hockey players to decide whether they want to play on the boys’ team or the girls’. Like any hard decision, there are there pros and cons for the girls.

Weslowski sent out a survey in conjunction with USA Hockey Girls’ and Women’s Section, and received more than 6,000 responses (2006). They learned that girls, without a doubt, loved hockey.

In addition, they learned that girls seemed to like playing on girls’ teams instead of boys’ teams for a myriad of reasons. Girls enjoyed the friendships with fellow girls, comradery, equality on the team, and enjoyed not being the odd one out as they would on the boys’ team.

As opposed to the boys’ team, they felt like the “different” one, felt the coach didn’t give them a chance, and sometimes didn’t feel accepted. Also, girls who played on boys’ teams were more likely to say they were quitting when the season was over.

The key point this article was stressing was bringing more girls into the sport otherwise they might lose girls all together. I completely agree. However, I also agree that if girls want to play with the boys, let them. As someone who wanted to play hockey but was stopped by social pressure, I can fully get on board with trying to make girls feel more welcomed into the sport. Like the article said, girls love hockey, don’t put out their passion because they don’t want to feel like the odd one out. Don’t stop girls from playing when they are done with Pee Wee, they have so much more to accomplish from there.

NFL Marketing to Women- Tierca Williams

Last week's class discussion, we talked about the different ways the NFL market to women and why they market to women. I found this topic to be very interesting and I went ahead and did some research and found out how my favorite NFL team market to women.

My favorite team is the Seattle Seahawks. What's different about the Seattle Seahawks is that they try to gain women's attention in a different way than any other sport organization would. The Seahawks has an organization for women by the name of "Seahawks Women's Association". With this organization, not only do they offer women "Football 101" courses and teach women the basics of football but they also "wine and dine" the women to get them more involved in the sport itself. The Seahawks Women's Association takes 20 young women at a time, and offers them manicures and pedicures (spa day). I found this to be really smart because what better way is there to gain a women's interest by taking her on a spa day?  I honestly would love to be apart of this association if I was to get offered a free spa day on a regular basis. I absolutely love going to the spa and enjoy getting manicures and pedicures. What woman doesn't enjoy it? This was one of the many ways to keep women's interest in not only football itself but to the Seahawks organization.

The association also offers women "Football 201" courses. This course is for women who have already mastered Football 101 and want to move beyond the basics. Sessions focus on more in-depth discussion about plays, penalties, player positions and strategy.  I've never really known other sport organizations to offer "Football 201" courses.

I personally would love to take both courses considering the fact that I recently became a fan of football about 3 years ago and I haven't quite yet mastered the basics and all of the terminology. This would be a great learning experience and I like this organization's technique of marketing to women. They go beyond the basics such as offering workshops, and "Football 101" courses.

Kia Tyus: Girls Tackling Football Across the Country

Girls Tackling Football Across the Country

I’m all about girls breaking barriers, showing guys that we can do pretty much anything they can do. But, when it comes to football, I feel like girls should know their place.

In high school, I’m absolutely routing for girls to play “ALL” sports. I feel like it is a great confidence builder for females. Also, it shows guys that girls can beat them at what they feel is a man’s sport. But, it’s high school. Many high schools don’t even have varsity try-outs because they don’t have enough players who want to play. So, it is easier for girls to play and succeed at that level.

As far as college and beyond, I simply don’t see girls succeeding in football. The guys are simply too strong and quick. Just think about a girl trying to compete in a conference such as the SEC. Every school would crush them, especially when conference play rolls around.

And I’m not even going to get into the NFL that simply won’t happen.

Personally, if I were a mother, I would absolutely not allow my daughter to play football. I feel like it is just too dangerous. I don’t even know if I would allow my son to play football.

I also feel like the guy players would feel the need to give extra protection to the females. It would take away the physicality of the game. Everything would be taken personal. And it would put guys in an awkward position, meaning most guys don’t want to hit a girl, and most guys don’t want to lose to a girl.

Girls playing football probably won’t go pass high school.

Girls Tackling Football - Haoyan Gu

I really like this article because it points out a success in women’s sports. In my opinion, girls playing in football teams is a huge step for women’s sports because football has always been seen as men’s sport. It requires intensive physical contact, which is less advantageous for women to play. According to the article, Lisa Spangler plays as starting middle linebacker for Fort Vancouver; and the coach said that he didn’t expect a girl on the team, but his job is to pick the best 11 players to start, and Lisa is one of them (Gutman, 2011). The coach’s statement is the best illustration of sex equality because he didn’t care about sex but skill level. The coach’s statement should be common sense and break the stereotype of “women can’t play football” and should apply to all sports.

In addition, women can achieve what men can achieve in sports now. In the article, Gutman mentioned that Gilbert caught a pass in a football game, and her coach said that if people saw her in her uniform, no one would know it was a girl (Gutman, 2011). If girls can do what men can do, why can’t they be on a male-dominant team such as football? I think it is a great start of breaking down the sex and gender barrier in sports. If letting women play on the same team with men can bring the same level of competition as all men playing, why not give a shot to try a mix gender team in the future.

Gutmann, H. (2011, October 18). Girls tackling football across the country. ESPN.com  Retrieved from http://espn.go.com/blog/high-school/girl/post/_/id/462/girls-tackling-football-across-the-country