Budget Allocation - Max Perry, Tyler Crellin, Clay Leser, Eddie Hodges

After initially viewing the athletic department budget we believed that we could balance it without cutting a team and without have pay to play involved. To figure out where to start with this project we started by calculating the total mandatory expenses that we would have to pay for all sports. We totaled all of the mandatory expenses and came up with $151,350. We also wanted to calculate the total amount of funds we would have including our alumni donation and fundraising. We decided to fundraise for the four largest teams on campus: football, men's and women's swimming, women's track and field, and men's track and field. We chose the four largest teams because they would provide use with most funds and we were able to raise $15,300 through fundraising. Adding the fundraising to the general budget in addition to the $20,000 alumni donation led us to a total cash amount of $155,300 with total expenses of $151,350. This meant that we could meet all of our mandatory expenses with a surplus of $3,950 in cash. To decide how to spend the cash we rewarded the best performing teams who had feasible optional expenses. We decided to reward both the men's and women's soccer teams with new jerseys for their strong performances of finishing third in their conference for a total cost of $2,400. We then looked at our remaining dollar amount and spread amongst new jerseys for the volleyball team ($1,200) and a new discus for women's track and field ($300). This left us down to a final $50 in the budget that couldn't be spent anywhere. However, all sports were paid for without cutting any and without providing any teams or individual athletes with pay to play.