Financial Aid Committee Readies Final Report Limits on the number of grants- has hit the nation’s campuses. tive personnel. Some have elim- The Committee set limiting V0llwball 2 1 8 in-aid an institution may give in “We don’t necessarily love the inated entire departments. We numbers on grants in sports be- Wntrrpoll, 2 1 8 WrestlinK 2 1 n sports other than football and need program,” commented Wil- have to start looking for ways to sides football and basketball in Under the plan proposed by the basketball were set and candi- liam J. Flynn, director of ath- save money, too.” Dallas, and set limits on the num- Committee, an institution would date’s declaration dates for sign- letics at Boston College and chair- The need principle will save ber of grants an institution could be able to bank only a restricted ings were established by the man of the Committee. “We’re some institutions more than bank or carry over in each sport. total number of grants in “other” NCAA Financial Aid Committee not wedded to it, nor are we $250,000 this year. It is the more It also set limits on the number of sports, a figure which would be crusaders for the need principle. July l-2 in Dallas, Texas. affluent institutions, athletically athletes an institution could have one-third of the total grants that The Committee will present its “But scholarships are the big speaking, which will benefit from on aid at one time in each sport. an institution could award in report-which also contains pro- expense faced by athletic depart- the numbers section of the Re- The limitation 6gures for “other” sports per year. posals that would base all athletic ments, and it is the big area where port, Flynn observed. “other” sports: The Committee established aid on the need of the individual we can save money. March 1 as the candidate’s declar- Both Needed student-athlete and would limit “We have to save money bc- ation date for fall sports, and May the number of initial grants an cause we are part of educational “The need and numbers sec- 1 as the date for all other sports. institution could give for football institutions which also are facing tions go together,” Flynn said. “If These dates would call for a com- and basketball-to the NCAA tremendous financial problems. just the need formula is imple- mon timing of offers to prospec- Council at its August session. Scholarships in general are being mented, then institutions haven’t tive student-athletes. The March A Dollar-Saver cut back. There is less money gained a thing. They can give out 1 date was proposed for football The need program is the big- available for higher education as many need grants as they wish at the request of advisory mem- gest money-saver put forth by now than there ever has been. and spend as much or more money bers of the Committee, who want- the Committee, formed in the Many schools have scheduled no than when they gave out full ed an earlier signing date to save wake of a financial crisis which raises for faculty and administra- grants.” money on recruiting costs. VOL. 8 l NO. 7 JULY 15, 1971 Running a Program at Reduced Cost NYU, Miami, Vermont, Colorado State, ber of initial grants that each institution Texas El Paso. could give. All have been faced with the spiraling Cutting Other Costs costs of athletics the last two years, and all have made the decision to eliminate Valparaiso, Puget Sound and Spring- sports from their intercollegiate athletic field also cut costs at other corners-on programs. schedules, travel and staff size. And although NCAA statistics show that “Our coaches also are on the physical more institutions are adding sports than education staff and have teaching assign- dropping them, more schools are going to ments,” Koenig said. “Each of them has bc faced with the problem in the future. staff rank and all the privileges that go “There always has been a problem with with it. Their coaching assignment is part financing athletics,” commented Dick of their class load. Therefore, their cost Koenig, a member of the NCAA Council isn’t solely applied to intercollegiate ath- and vice-president for public and alumni let’cs, as it is at some inXtutions. affairs at Valparaiso University. “Everybody is trying to keep up with “But now the problem is different. The the Joneses,” Koenig added. “If some entire area of higher education is having other institution gives 40 full rides, then financial problems, and athletics are only they feel they have to. If someone installs one phase of that total problem. It’s diffi- Daug Mclrthur Richard Koenig Edward Steitr artificial turf, then they think they have cult to argue for athletics when the insti- Puget Sound Vcr/p.rck Springfield tution itself is hurting financially, too.” to do it, too. Program costs are on a spiral with everyone trying to keep up with the Strong CD Programs tragedy.” have young men sit around - YOU can’t other guy.” Koenig, along with Dr. Edward S. Steitz “We offer nine sports now at Puget play them all. They don’t go to other Springfield College’s athletic department of Springfield College and Doug McArthur Sound,” commented McArthur. “We schools, either. If schools would put a has convinced its administration that inter- of the University of Puget Sound, run suc- wouldn’t cut to three sports to have the limit on the number of scholarships they collegiate athletics are an educational part cessful College Division programs, and best basketball team, which is probably our give out, then the Eastern Michigans, Puget of an institution-and had its budget in- have advice for institutions which may be strongest sport now. We wouldn’t sacrifice Sounds and the Valparaisos would have creased last year. faced with a situation of dropping a sport tl:ose sports. We would have to lower our all kinds of available athletes, and they’d “The only way that athletics can exist or sports instead of de-emphasizing a pro- level of competition and readjust our be able to play.” on a college campus is that they are an ed- gram in order to meet costs. a:ms.” “Our scholarship program,” said Steitz, ucational opportunity for students,” Steitz “If the choice is to run a program at a All three of the College Division men “is based on the need of the individual stu- said. reduced level or run no program at all,” arc involved with athletic programs which dent-athlete. We have been operating for “Athletics are not extra-curricular, they Koenig said, “then the choice is obvious. run smaller budgets than many major in- years under the need program. I think that are co-curricular-part of the curriculum. You have to think of the individual stu- stitutions. it is good that the NCAA is getting around dent and run a program that offers an in- The Big Cost to offering a scholarship program under Our institution believes that athletics pro- vide education to the body, mind and tercollegiate opportunity for students who “Many institutions spend an enormous the need principle.” spirit perhaps more than any other dis- may want the program at whatever level amount of money on scholarships,” Mc- The NCAA Financial Aid Committee it is run. Arthur said. “They should be able to get has been meeting since appointed in late cipline on campus. ‘Some schools have dropped sports in- by on 60-75 football scholarships. It is in- 1969, and has proposed a program which “Athletic education is a discipline. But stead of running them at a reduced level to comprehensible to me to use 120 scholar- would base all scholarships to student- instead of using test tubes, we use play- save money, and I think this is indeed a ships. That’s a lot of money spent just to athletes on need and would limit the num- fields and gymnasiums.” Council,Executive Committee To Meet in San Francisco A meeting which should pro- The Council will consider rec- NCAA and director of athletics at presented to the 1972 NCAA Con- $795,500. duce significant long-range deci- ommendations from the Associa- Boston College, will present his vention, set for January 6-8, Hol- The Council will consider other legislative proposals, and both sions will take the NCAA Council tion’s Committee on Financial body’s recommendations to the lywood, Florida, for deliberation groups will receive reports from a Aid, which has been laboring Council, thus ending its arduous by the membership. to San Francisco August 19-21. number of Committees. Those sessions will follow two since appointed in October 1969 assignment. The Executive Committee will NCAA President, Earl M. Ra- days of fall meetings by the ASSO- to find means whereby intercol- The Council then will weigh conduct its annual August review mer, University of Tennessee, will ciation’s Executive Committee, legiate athletics may rcducc oper- each point, decide which it will of the Association’s financial re- preside at both meetings. and a two-day meeting of the ating expenses. support, and draft amendments to ports, and will prepare and adopt Dean William H. Baughn, Uni- Long-Range Planning Committee. Financial AidCommittee Chair- the NCAA Constitution and By- a 1971-72 budget. The NCAA’s versity of Colorado, is chairman of All sessions will be held at the man William J. Flynn, immediate laws to incorporate each. 1970-71 figure, exclusive of its the Long-Range Planning Com- St.