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Re: Public vs Private - The Competitive Imbalance

PostPosted: May 9th, 2017, 7:39 am
by Make MVC Great Again
squirrel wrote:
Make MVC Great Again wrote:There are going to be good public and private schools in any conference.

However, my issue is the private schools tend to have the smallest athletic budget of the league. Look at Loyola, Wichita State's basketball budget alone was bigger than their entire athletic budget.

Their endowment is nearly a half-billion, and you are telling me you can't invest any of that into athletics?

If you can't increase your budget, why else do you belong in the league? The league was doing just fine, if not better without you.


To be fair, only SIU, Illinois State and UNI outspend Bradley and Drake, and both Bradley and Drake are essentially at the same spending levels as UNI. With success, Bradley could probably leapfrog both Illinois St and UNI, and Loyola has been spending in essential parity with Missouri St, and probably surpasses them with MSU's recent cuts. SIU has been spending at Wichita levels. While your comment is literally true, it's not exactly like they are the dregs of the league. All but Evansville have been funding athletics at competitive levels.

It's not completely out of the realm of possibility that 3 of the top 5 budgets could be privates at any time.


Public schools are going to be more reliant on the economy for funds. Whereas private schools have more secure funds. It is comparing apples and oranges.