Monday, September 29, 2008

DI SCHOOLS THAT ARE ADDING FOOTBALL PART TWO: Football is up to the alumni

UNC Charlotte: When the official fund drive starts, the alumni will have 6 months to raise 5 million dollars. The main purpose of this drive is to set a fundraising base for a future football stadium. 5000 personal seat licences will be sold at $1000 to achieve this goal. After the initial drive, there will be another campaign to raise 15 million dollars for the actual stadium. The student fee hike estimated to make football a reality is $200. Currently student fees are 888.75 and the total cost of tuition and fees is 2147.25. Funding Football will raise each full time students cost of attendance by 1.4%. Charlotte student fees with Football: $1088.75
Football begins: 2013
Feasibility study: http://charlotte49ers.cstv.com/auto_pdf/p_hotos/s_chools/ncch/genrel/auto_pdf/ncch-football-feasibility-narr

University of Texas Arlington: The student body at UTA has voted to increase their student fees by $2 a semester to help fund football. Currently the president has "deferred" a decision on football until 2009.
Feasibility Study: http://www.uta.edu/sportsexpansion/sports_expansion.pdf

University of Texas San Antonio: Students have recently passed a $120 semester fee to help offset the cost of football. UTSA has completed a feasibility study that shows it will take 3 million dollars to start up football. In addition they would like to partner with San Antonio on a 60 million dollar athletic facilty that a variety of UTSA Olympic sports could use. This facility would also include a practice facility and locker rooms for football. Currently the plan is with the University of Texas board of regents and has not been voted on. The Roadrunners will hold their games at the Alamo Dome.
Feasibility Study: http://www.utsa.edu/ucomm/athletics/toc.htm

Winthrop: The President expects start up cost to be around 1.7 million and they will need 16.6 million in capital projects which will include a stadium. There is no official timetable for bringing back football.

Texas A&M Corpus Christi: The islanders completed a feasibility study in January of 2007. This study estimated that start up cost would be around 2.7 million dollars and recommended a 5 million dollar fundraising campaign to begin football. A student fee has not been voted on at this time. The President has put a hold on Football for now as the athletic department was hit with a variety of NCAA infractions in 2008. The rough timetable for football to begin is 2015.
Feasibility report: http://www.goislanders.com/pdf1/59034.pdf?ATCLID=750920&SPID=6601&DB_OEM_ID=14100&SPSID=60120

Kennesaw State: The athletic department has done an internal study on Football at KSU. The study estimates that they would need one Million dollars in start up funds with an additional student fees of around $45. In addition, Kennesaw State is in the midst of a campus wide fundraising campaign that includes 15 million dollars for an on campus football stadium. The original timeline called for KSU to take the field in 2011 but has been pushed back as fundraising continues.
Feasibility Study: http://ksuowls.cstv.com/auto_pdf/p_hotos/s_chools/kenn/genrel/auto_pdf/feasibilitystudy

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