… it’s not gonna ding the reserve fund too badly, relatively speaking.
Tennessee’s COA – calculated by the Office of Financial Aid for all students using the Independent Student Allowance method – is $5,666 per year (not counting summer school). That’s $4002 in miscellaneous expenses and $1664 in transportation.
That is $80 more than the next SEC institution – Auburn ($5586). But it is almost $3900 more than Georgia ($1,798), which is on the low end of the SEC spectrum. These numbers are either last year’s figures or projected for the upcoming fiscal year according to information from various websites.
In the SEC, only three schools are over $5000, three schools are in the $4000s, six are in the $3000s and two are below $3000 – Georgia and Vanderbilt ($2,730).
I bet nobody realized what a great deal it is to live in Athens. Todd Gurley made more than that paltry $1,798 with his trusty Sharpie.
Now you can understand why Morehead and McGarity want the SEC to adopt the Georgia Way as a uniform standard. And why nobody in the conference is going to listen.
Knives are being sharpened on the recruiting trail as you read this. And Jeremy Pruitt wonders in which direction he should point a finger.
Get The Picture 
Good for Auburn and Tennessee. They’re getting players the compensation they so justly deserve while remaining within the (unethical) rules the NCAA has placed upon them.
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Agreed. Gaining competitive advantage off the field is as important as gaining advantage on it.
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Morehead: “Let’s stop shooting ourselves in the foot”
McGarity: “yeah, but let’s still do it on Mondays for the sake of tradition”
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what we need is for the congress to step in and tax each and every ncaa school on their athletic department revenue… then reallocate those revenues equally to all the schools so that they can have an equal chance to succeed. It’s just not fair the way things are now… tradition sux.
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Well, at least our athletes won’t be alone.
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2014-04-11/uga-profs-pay-ranks-last-among-peers
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Everybody bitches and rightfully so about the exponential increase in college education over the last twenty years and the trillion dollars in student debt…and here we have our university trying to do something about it and we bitch some more. This entire thing is gonna come crashing down within the next several years… hopefully we get a natty before then… lol.
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The Georgia Way.
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What accounts for the broad disparity in the numbers from school to school? If the high numbers are artificially inflated can’t they be artificially replicated?
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The disparity is between those who want to win and those who want to count pennies.
Same song. Different verse.
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Since Kentucky is ahead of Alabama your premise is preposterous. If anyone has an intelligent answer rather than a non-substantive “woe is me” bitch-fest, it would be appreciated.
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We will lose a lot of recruits because of this, if the disparity remains. Just a fact. Pay a player 3 times more to go to TN or AU when they’re on the fence to begin with… Not even up for debate.
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You serious? Kentucky is a #1 seed in one of the biggest college sporting event of the year.
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Yes kentucky IS more interested in winning than Alabama. You’ve convinced me.
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are you aware this whole thing applies to more than one sport?
It’s kentucky basketball. They’re not just a bunch of scrap
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Not just a bunch of scrappy horsemen. They win because they’re just as nuts about basketball as bama is about football.
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You are aware that a basketball team has somewhat less than 85 scholarship players right? The supposition that this is a function of commitment to winning is what I am challenging. Yes basketball is big at uk, but it ain’t bigger than Alabama football. There has to be something other than capacity/willingness to invest at work here. It’s got to be creative accounting. If it is, there is no reason to be left behind.
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You’re just refusing to acknowledge any evidence that’s contrary to your opinion.
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Does Bama have more SEC football titles than the rest of the SEC combined? KY can say that about Basketball. Yes sir, they are dead serious about winning….
Let me add that I don’t see this COA thing being anything but a mess.
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I didn’t know that Auburn and Tennessee were such cosmopolitan hotspots. And how does it only cost that much to live in Athens outside of school expenses, unless you’re buying your food with trivia winnings and free pizzas from your RA.
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God alone knows what Texas A&M will do.
Their endowments dwarf everybody else in the SECEE
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In Auburn and Knoxville they include the cost of meth…..
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I can hear the Auburns and Tennessees laughing.
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Even Vanderbilt (at $1,000 more per athlete) has someone to laugh at.
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Ha! This is sad/insane. Clearly there is no standard. $472 per month at UT v. $150 at UGA. Somebody needs to start grabbing some of the lapels at BM–apparently it’s time for ANOTHER come to Jesus moment with our cheapo administration.
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In all fairness there doesn’t need to be a standard or a limit on how much athletes can receive until there’s a limit on how much coaches can get paid
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does look like there is some wiggle room in the formula.
It would be tough to recruit against a $3k difference.
bummer.
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Finally spending money on coaches and IPF’s. Just when you thought we caught up.
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For those who think the culture of BM has done a 180, I give you exhibit A
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Is it too late to change my vote to “Blow B-M up and start over”?
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So by this “math” does Richt have a higher Cost Of Attendance salary than Saban?
per Sperling’s the cost of living, which is what I understand they are talking about, is 11% higher in Auburn, Al and Knoxville, TN is actually 18% CHEAPER than in Athens. The NCAA should give an actual dollar amount then adjust for cost of living based off the Federal Government calculations for cost of living, this way nobody can bend the rules.
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yeah auburn and Knoxville are like 4 times more expensive to live in than Athens, much less damn Nashville.
do southern cal and ucla get like 100k?
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I don’t get it. 1+1= 2 no matter how hard somebody tries to spin it. How can Auburn, a state university in Alabama, cost $3900 more to attend than the University of Georgia? If the true cost of attendance is the same, and I have to believe it is, then Auburn is paying money to athletes under the table to get them to go there. Any forensic accountant can find that out and prove it. How come we don’t just do that and get Auburn the death penalty?
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This was my thought as well. I’m all for taking care of the students but there needs to be some serious control or the cheaters with $ will take over.
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Why is everyone complaining about B-M in this case? This is the number that used to calculate eligibility for financial aid for all students by the Office of Financial Aid. This amount was never intended to be the basis for a stipend for student-athletes. Each conference is going to have to decide what qualifies under total cost of attendance and then audit against that calculation. If I’m reading the numbers right, this article doesn’t even appear to be correct. The cost of transportation and miscellaneous living expenses for an undergraduate living on campus is $3,221 ($3,746 off-campus) for the 2015-16 academic year at UGA (Source: http://osfa.uga.edu/cost.html). All of this assumes tuition, fees, books, room & board are covered by the scholarship.
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Amen! Everyone bitching and moaning as if we’re shooting ourselves in the foot with some draconian and masochisticapproach to the COA stipend is failing the simplest of reader comprehension tests. The linked article is using data that was analyzed and produced by independent offices with relation to each individual school. The new rule for the Power 5 has a lot of wiggle room regarding those figures and leaves most of it up to the insitutions to determine.
I’m stil not sure where the article finds their numbers, however. As has been pointed out, the actual figure is right in the middle of the pack. The discrepancies at each school come from the costs associated with attending those schools (i.e. room and board) which OUR state’s flagship university has managed to keep relatively low compared to peers. That is something we should be thankful for, as Georgia students (as of 2011 anway) were graduating with the least amount of student debt of any state in the nation. Not only that, but athletic scholarships are NOT the equal of the HOPE scholarship that 3/4s of the UGA student body enjoys. The $3221/$3746 figures take HOPE into account and SO WILL UGA’S COA FOR ATHLETES!!!
This article, while conveniently ignoring all of these factors, is easy to absorb and allows for plenty of knee-jerk reactions. The actual COA is impacted by much more that “desire to win”….in fact, these figures have nothing to do with athletic ambition. The new, athletic side to COA has barely even begun to be broached at each of these institutions. There is hardly any lead from the NCAA or any prior situations to draw knowledge from in the pursuit of a COA for scholarship athletes. There is a whole new world of student-athlete compensation and there is a reason some institutions are trying to lead discussions about how best to handle it moving forward. If some colleges don’t want to wast their time doing any extra work and would rather rely on an outdated and ill-suited method for determing COA as it pertains to student-ATHLETES…..then so be it. UGA and B-M will do the necessary footwork to make sure our athletes are compensated fairly. Even if you’re hellbent on believing otherwise.
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Even if you’re hellbent on believing otherwise.
Which is why I’m waiting to see the “It’s all St. Richt’s fault” and UGA fans “accepting mediocrity” comments soon enough.
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Which is why I’m waiting to see the “It’s all St. Richt’s fault” and UGA fans “accepting mediocrity” comments soon enough.
That implies that those comments ever stopped. Haters gonna hate 24/7.
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Not sure where else to put this, but its gold.
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