Boise State coaches, athletics staff to be furloughed
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Today's HD says MU is $8.5 million in the hole so far... Don't be shocked if we dont do something similar.
As well it should happen. Supposedly this was to be Docs last year right? Perhaps he should go ahead and retire.
The ESPN article isn't real clear. Here is BSU's HR site:
https://www.boisestate.edu/hrs/covid-19-furlough-information-and-faqs/
More or less, the top earners, which would include the football staff, loses 10 days pay. Anybody who believes that ball coaches will not work during that time should look into beach front Idaho property. A sliding scale down to 4 days off for people at the $40K level. This is school wide and not athletics driven.
Yeah, it sucks to lose 10 days pay, but at the $700K/year level, its really nothing life changing. Losing 4 days pay at the $40K level sucks a little more.
Old people will remember when WV was cursed with Rockefailure. He broke the state and ordered a 15% cut to the entire state budget. WVU was able to cover its cut with fat, but MU and the state colleges had no choice but to close. President Hayes had the courage to tell Rockefailure that, and Jaytard asked the faculty and the staff to "volunteer" to work for free for two weeks. The faculty laughed him out of the room and the legislature rebuked him and exempted higher education from any cuts.
https://www.boisestate.edu/hrs/covid-19-furlough-information-and-faqs/
More or less, the top earners, which would include the football staff, loses 10 days pay. Anybody who believes that ball coaches will not work during that time should look into beach front Idaho property. A sliding scale down to 4 days off for people at the $40K level. This is school wide and not athletics driven.
Yeah, it sucks to lose 10 days pay, but at the $700K/year level, its really nothing life changing. Losing 4 days pay at the $40K level sucks a little more.
Old people will remember when WV was cursed with Rockefailure. He broke the state and ordered a 15% cut to the entire state budget. WVU was able to cover its cut with fat, but MU and the state colleges had no choice but to close. President Hayes had the courage to tell Rockefailure that, and Jaytard asked the faculty and the staff to "volunteer" to work for free for two weeks. The faculty laughed him out of the room and the legislature rebuked him and exempted higher education from any cuts.
But Gilbert says the school is on solid financial footing - as good as any in the state.
I guess they are increasing the athletic fee by $50 - that goes to the AD.
Be interesting to see what we do 2-3 months from now. Agree, we’ll likely see cuts somewhere.
I'm sure Gilbert isn't wrong, and we do have the prettiest car in the demolition derby right now... Being $8.5 million down hurts MU, but not as bad as what many of the smaller schools are going to see. Small colleges are going to have to get creative to keep the doors open, or close, especially if the COVID lasts into next fall.
Not sure what Dr. Gilbert plans to do but fall enrollment is underway and I have zero students signed for my classes thus far.
Virus aside, one of the largest political issues in the next 20 years in WV is going to be how to get these state colleges shuttered. It has to happen, and the sooner the better, both for MU and for the people of WV. If this virus speeds that up, then so be it.
I feel like if you're part of the 1% of the 1% of a half of a percent of people who would kill to have these jobs, maybe this is acceptable, all things considered. In light of a national crisis that is killing thousands and destroying the finances of millions of Americans, maybe you take a brief pay cut on that six-figure salary you're getting to teach pampered 19 years old gap discipline and where to stick the needle-full of HGH.
When life gets back to normal, all will be fine for these guys, we'll go back to paying nurses and first responders as little as we can while completely taking them for granted, and we'll go back to throwing money at sports coaches like they're the underpinning of our society.
Yesterday, Urbana University in Ohio announced they were closing the doors for good. D2 school.
It's not as drastic as it appears. Urbana has about 1200 "students," but about 900 of those students are high schoolers "enrolled" to earn college credits while still in high school, inmates in a program at a local jail, and a post-Baccalaureate program.
There are only a little over 300 students who were on-campus there for classes even when it was open.
It has operated as a branch campus for Franklin University since 2014. It has struggled financially for years and this COVID - 19 crisis just pushed it over the edge
Yep. When I played college soccer Urbana was in our conference and they had like 500 students on campus and that was 18 years ago. Football was a hail mary to get students on campus.
Most of the students at small colleges are athletes. One school in area - athletes make up 85% of the student body.
I was reading today that one local HS softball player had a scholarship there. She is now re-opening her recruitment. Hope she can find another scholarship at this late date
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