Athletics using money irresponsibly, again?
The athletics department chartered a jet for the soccer team for their games this week. I'm all for supporting our teams and all but the athletics department was in the red last year for poorly managing their budget and had USG and GSG bail them out by increasing student fees. Now we see that they've used our additional student fees for chartering a private jet?
I get that a week is short notice for getting plane tickets but there had to be an economical way of getting our team to their games. It seems like the athletics department is again mismanaging their money at the expense of students. Who will hold the athletics department accountable for our money?
The NCAA covers most of the costs associated with these games. The NCAA pays for all flights for our student athletes in this situation. The NCAA could not find a commercial flight for our men’s soccer team last weekend so they paid for a charter flight instead. Mines did not pay a single penny for the charter flight. The NCAA paid for it in its entirety. Thanks :)
Love,
USG
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Anonymous commented
It's been weeks since this was posted and it still hasn't been addressed! Aren't fees voted on soon? Why has this not been cleared up? How can you vote on funding/fees in good conscious without knowing what athletics is doing with our money?