nesday, November 19, 1969
College Station, Texas
Page 7
THE BATTALION
thletic Costs Soar To $3.5 Million At Ohio State
|y Will Grimsley
Special Correspondent
lOLUMBUS, Ohio (&) — It
ts $10,000 a year to put shoes
Ohio State’s champion foot-
team and the annual tele-
me bill in the past decade has
jped from $7,000 to $23,000.
hese are just a couple of the
ftdental expenses in the mak-
a I and sustaining of a big time
lege power. The Buckeyes ex
it to go in the red as much as
; —■quarter of a million dollars
l/pl ~The FiMs year.
waived staijl'For years we were able to
M a rv Wotirate within our budget, but
ekle MikeTjIthe last two or three years
0 °dson, a I have been forced to dip into
immediately» reserve capital,” E. E. Ber-
rement. Ohio State business man-
:r, said Tuesday. “Expenses
going out of sight.”
lie Buckeyes’ plight, despite
tinuing success on the field
sell-out gates, is typical of
financial squeeze being ex-
ienced by college athletic de-
tments throughout the coun-
Ikyrocketing costs are plagu-
teams from the effete Ivy
igue to the booming Pacific
ist and from the Middle West
the bowl-conscious Southeast-
and Southwest Conferences,
'inancial difficulties forced
tre Dame this week to break
5-year tradition and accept a
to the Cotton Bowl.
'he drain has become so se-
that many college adminis-
rs are urging a de-emphasis
the return of one-platoon foot-
and agreements to cut down
recruiting. The matter will
weighed at the annual Na-
lal Collegiate Athletic Associ-
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ation convention at Washington,
D. C., in January.
The alternative could be ath
letic bankruptcy, explained Ber
nard. “A university attempting
to keep pace in a major confer
ence must put seven or eight men
on the road. They visit fami
lies of prospects, entertain, in
vite visits to the campus.
“Transportation fares are up.
Hotel accommodations are twice
and three times what they once
were. In some places, you can’t
get a good dinner for less than
$7.50 to $9.00.
“The question is how many of
us can maintain the current
pace.”
Ohio State is the nation’s No.
1 college football team, winner
of 22 games in a row. It suits
up about 80 husky athletese ob
tained through a high-pressure
recruiting program. It has a
student body of 43,000.
The Buckeyes had their fifth
straight home game sell-out
against Purdue last Saturday—
85,027 — and boosted its five-
game home attendance for the
season to 431,175, the highest
college football attendance in 20
years. Ohio State has led the
nation in attendance 12 straight
years.
The price of tickets is $6 and
$7.
“These figures are very decep
tive,” Bernard explained. “Of
the 85,000 who see one of our
games, some 30,000 are students
and faculty, admitted for a cut-
rate ticket ($14 a season for stu
dents, $16 for faculty).
“The student population explo
sion is a problem on campuses
everywhere. When it is all fig
ured out, the average receipt for
a ticket is $2.57.”
The Ohio State’s athletic budg
et — that includes all sports —
is $3,319,378 for the current year.
Bernard estimates expenditures
will soar over $3.5 million, count
ing capital expenses.
One of the major expenses is
grants-in-aid. Ohio State, as a
Big Ten member, is allowed 30
football scholarships a year, six
basketball and 34 for other
sports — a total of 70. This
means there are 280 students on
the campus getting their educa
tion paid free — tuition, books,
fees and $15 a month for laun
dry — from athletic funds, most
ly football.
“The cost of education has
risen drastically,” Bernard said.
“Not so long ago, this expense
amounted to about $800 a year.
Now it’s around $2,000 for an
out-of-state student, around $1,-
500 for an in-state student. Other
places, it may be more.”
Ohio State maintains a well-
paid coaching staff consisting of
head coach W. W. “Woody”
Hayes and nine assista nts.
Coaches and trainers are a $357,-
000 item. Some Southern col
leges have as many as 20 assist
ants.
“No one ever thinks of it, but
we pay $64,000 a year for po
licemen and gatemen,” the Ohio
State business manager said.
“Clothing and equipment
amount to $39,200, not counting
shoes; $20,000 is paid out for
movies of games and practice
sessions, $46,416 for local meals
feeding the athletes; $18,000 for
transportation and $77,000 for
a retirement fund, for adminis
trative personnel.
“It costs a lot to field a col
lege football team and run an
athletic program — and the price
keeps going up.”
Otis Taylor Ready
To Begin Again
NEW YORK <A>) — When Cor
nell Gordon sizes up his antag
onists in the private war of pro
football’s catchers and corner-
backs, Otis Taylor comes out
larger than life.
“They say he’s something like
6-foot-3 and 220 pounds, but he
seems a lot bigger than that to
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losing battle with Taylor and
the Kansas City Chiefs.
Taylor, making his first start
in a month, snared three touch
down passes — the last two de
spite broken ribs as the Chiefs
mauled the Jets 34-16 in a
matchup of American Football
League division leaders.
The swift, strong — and often-
injured — receiver was selected
Tuesday as the AFL Offensive
Player of the Week by The As
sociated Press.
Taylor, out of action for three
weeks with torn stomach mus
cles, bounced back with a flour
ish, taking an 18-yard payoff
pitch from Len Dawson on the
Chiefs’ first play from scrim
mage. The five-year pro from
Prairie View snapped a second
quarter tie with a seven-yard
scoring grab and tallied again in
the finale on a 10-yarder.
Taylor had a fourth touch
down catch nullified by a hold
ing penalty, but finished with
seven receptions for 96 yards.
“On a given day, anything can
happen,” he said, brushing off
his big comeback just as he had
shrugged off Jet defenders and
the nagging pain from the rib in
jury. “We beat a good football
team and I’m just happy I had
a good game. I was due for
one.”
Sophomore flanker John Dobbs
of the Air Force Academy foot
ball team is the son of Bobby
Dobbs, former Army player who
coaches the University of Texas
at El Paso.
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Billy Bob Barnett Wishes
He Had It To Do Over Again
If Billy Bob Barnett had it all
tod do over again, athletic history
at Texas A&M might have been
a bit different.
“Now I wish I had tried to
play football and basketball when
I started at A&M,” the defensive
end from Brenham said. Instead,
Barnett decided to give all his
attention to basketball, and the
result was a pair of All-South-
west Conference citations and an
SWC title, which ranks as Bar
nett’s greatest thrill.
With his basketball eligibility
expired, Barnett came out for
football last spring. His height
(6-5), agility and good hands in
dicated that tigth end might be
his position. Considering that he
hadn’t played football for four
years, Barnett did a good job at
the position in the spring.
Then came the fall and Barnett
was up from his basketball weight
of 218 to 250. A combination of
the added weight and the experi
ence needed to play offense—
plus already having a pretty good
tight end in Ross Brupbacher—
dictated a shift to defense.
It took Barnett all of three
games before he was the No. 1
right defensive end. With his
size, strength and tremendous
desire, it was just a matter of
finding the right position. Coach
Gene Stallings thinks he’s found
“Billy Bob played well against
TCU. He just gives great effort
on every play. My only regret is
that he isn’t a sophomore. He’s
a good football player now, but
if he had two more years, he’d
be great,” Stallings says.
Barnett’s progress gives A&M
a pair of good defensive ends with
senior Jimmy Piper on the left
side. But Barnett’s not the kind
of person to be satisfied with
personal pgrogress—he wants' to
win.
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