What a STUPID idea financially!

For starters you have no idea just how much money it takes to operate a D1 Hockey team.


#1- Scholarships.
Baseball 11.7(max)
----We are around 7 right now up from 4 three years ago

Hockey 18

#2- Coaches Salaries
Baseball
Head Coach $58,000
Asst Coach $30,000
Asst Coach $30,000
(baseball just added a 2nd full time asst. position this year and added its 1st full time position in 2006)

Hockey
Head Coach- $232,500 (what Hakstol makes right now which is over 30,000 more then Bohl)
Asst Coach- 100,000 (guessing. Eades might make more)
Asst Coach- 75,000

#3- Operations staff
Operations none (coaches do it all)
Equipment Mgr NDSU Staff
Ath Trainer/St Coach NDSU Staff

Hockey (UND has positions JUST for the sport)
Operations $40,000 (guess)
Equipment Mgr $40,000 (guess)
Ath Trainer/St Coach $75,000 (guess, UND has one guy who serves both for hockey only)

#4- Travel
Baseball- 3 flights this year the rest by bus. Probably around $100,000 for the year.
Hockey- probably 5 bus trips the rest by flight. Probably over $400,000 for the year.

#5- Recruiting Budget (scouting, off campus visits, on campus visits)
Baseball- Maybe $25,000 (which would be 3 times more then it was under McLeod)

Hockey- Cant believe it would be under $250,000. Canadian flights aren't cheap out of Grand Forks.

#6- Equipment-
Baseball- Every year Caps, Cleats, socks, batting gloves, bats and baseballs.
replaced every 3 years helmets and catchers gear
(players purchase their own gloves)
Uniforms are replaced about every 5+ years
Guess is $12-$15,000 a year

Hockey- Pretty sure no player pays for anything. Guessing the stick budget is over half of the baseball total equipment budget. (Probably 60+ sticks at $125 ea.) Besides that hockey protective equipment is NOT CHEAP!

#7- Officials- I dont even want to guess how much more a WCHA official is compared to Summit League baseball rates.

#8- Game Facility staff- Hockey would be MUCH larger considering baseballs is virtually nothing.

My best educated guess for total budget
Baseball- $300,000
Hockey- Well over $1.5 million. The coaching salaries equate the total budget for baseball.

The problem with adding mens hockey is you have to add $$$ to the womens athletic budgets because the title IX issue. Which basically means you have to add womens hockey. The baseball budget is where it is at because of the title IX limits. They get whatever is leftover basically after the other mens sports get what they want.

So you need to look at it this way. Would you rather have womens hockey as a complete $ drain on the football program or baseball minding its own business looking for scraps the football team tosses aside.

Just not a very smart fiscal decision.