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Post by cc on Aug 12, 2005 15:26:36 GMT -6
I am taking over as head coach and some of our boosters have ideas to expand our budget.
They would like to go from getting by to becoming an elite program (as would I). We would like to compare budgets with other programs. If you could email me your budget or one you may have as a reference that would be greatly appreciated.
connjp@hotmail.com
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Post by tog on Aug 12, 2005 15:27:50 GMT -6
Hi CC, good to see ya. Guys, this is a good guy here. Let's help him out with some INFO
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Post by shortyardage on Aug 13, 2005 0:25:36 GMT -6
I've been a head coach at a couple of schools and an AD at a couple of schools. At my last school as an AD, I can tell you that the football budget was $100,000.00 annually. That was what the school spent on the program. Large by some standards, not large enough by the premier school standards. That was about five years ago, so I'm sure that the budget has increased since then.
It included everything from purchasing new gear to paying for buses and officials to buying paint to line the field. Anything and everything that went into a football program was included.
In the four years that I was the AD, the boosters fundraising increased from $25,000.00 my first year to $180,000.00 my fourth and final year. It didn't just happen. I sat down with our director of development and we made the decision to consolidate all fundraising for the athletic department. Previously all teams had been able to fundraise on their own, but everyone was fighting each other and only football was bringing in any money and even that wasn't enough to augment their school budget.
We had only four fundraisers in a year: Christmas tree sales (everything was pre-ordered), booster club memberships and merchandise, program ad sales and concessions at home games. The coaches of those sports that didn't participate were told that they would be at the bottom of the list in terms of positive responses to requests for funds from the booster club. No work-no money.
In our area, "Competitive Equity" has become a buzz word. It boils down to money. When I left as AD, anything that the coaches wanted, they got. We had raised enough money to do it.
As a rule, anything that a program needs to go out and run a safe and productive practice should be built into the budget. Anything that a program needs to be competitive and stand a better than even chance of winning should be built into the budget.
Those things that are "extra" are the things that were fundraised for. Better, wireless head sets to replace the wired head sets, meals during two-a-days so that the players wouldn't have to pay for them, recliner buses for long distance away games instead of school buses. An extra athletic trainer to assist the head trainer and the student trainers, a professional cameraman to film the games instead of a volunteer dad, going digital instead of linear VHS for the new computer scouting system, the list goes on.
I think I have old copies of budgets somewhere, I'll try and find them and post them here.
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Post by jackedup on Aug 13, 2005 7:48:38 GMT -6
At my last school they used to have battles with the boosters club for money. So before I got there the HC created a Football Network. It become a boosters club within the boosters club. We raised about all the money we needed by ourselves. We did do a fundraiser for the boosters club to make them happy but it still ended up being mostly football kids doing the work and the football team getting the least amount of money. But I think if you are able to have a seperate boosters club or your own network account... that's the best thing to do. We didn't ask for any of their help and most of the time it was them asking for our help.
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