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The Daily OrangeClub baseball denied funds to join National Club Baseball Association
By Dan Leif
Posted: 3/28/02, 12:45 AM EST Section: Feature
Baseball is simple.
You hit, you run, you throw. You wear skin-tight pants.
But for the Syracuse University club baseball team, the beginning of this spring season has been anything but easy. A decision by the Club Sport Advisory Board not to allocate the necessary money for the team to join the National Club Baseball Association left them without a league and in a pinch for games.
The process by which club teams receive funding from the school is tricky.
Each January the student-governed advisory board gets funding requests for the upcoming academic year from SU's 35 club sport teams. After examining each team's request, the board makes its own budget request to the Student Association finance board.
SA then takes money from Student Activity Fees and allocates it to the advisory board, which distributes the money to the individual teams. But because the club sports budget is based on activity fees, overall funding can only increase if student enrollment does too.
So when it comes to budgeting, the board's hands are tied. If teams say they need more cash, increased enrollment is their only hope.
According to Club Sports Assistant Director Joseph Lore, the sum of all the club teams' financial requests totaled $149,957 for the 2001-2002 academic year. But the board could only request $72,100 from SA, leaving the majority of club teams with much less money than they’d originally asked to finance their 2001-2002 seasons.
"Baseball is no different than bowling, figure skating or any other club sport," Lore said. "There probably wasn't a single club that got everything it asked for when you look at the whole scope of everything."
The baseball club requested $4,935 from the advisory board for the 2001-2002 year. They were allocated $1,800.
The board gave the squad enough money to pay for umpires and to rent field space for home games. However, the board opted not to provide the team with the $500 it needed to pay the National Club Baseball Association entry fee.
You hit, you run, you throw. You wear skin-tight pants.
But for the Syracuse University club baseball team, the beginning of this spring season has been anything but easy. A decision by the Club Sport Advisory Board not to allocate the necessary money for the team to join the National Club Baseball Association left them without a league and in a pinch for games.
The process by which club teams receive funding from the school is tricky.
Each January the student-governed advisory board gets funding requests for the upcoming academic year from SU's 35 club sport teams. After examining each team's request, the board makes its own budget request to the Student Association finance board.
SA then takes money from Student Activity Fees and allocates it to the advisory board, which distributes the money to the individual teams. But because the club sports budget is based on activity fees, overall funding can only increase if student enrollment does too.
So when it comes to budgeting, the board's hands are tied. If teams say they need more cash, increased enrollment is their only hope.
According to Club Sports Assistant Director Joseph Lore, the sum of all the club teams' financial requests totaled $149,957 for the 2001-2002 academic year. But the board could only request $72,100 from SA, leaving the majority of club teams with much less money than they’d originally asked to finance their 2001-2002 seasons.
"Baseball is no different than bowling, figure skating or any other club sport," Lore said. "There probably wasn't a single club that got everything it asked for when you look at the whole scope of everything."
The baseball club requested $4,935 from the advisory board for the 2001-2002 year. They were allocated $1,800.
The board gave the squad enough money to pay for umpires and to rent field space for home games. However, the board opted not to provide the team with the $500 it needed to pay the National Club Baseball Association entry fee.
