Story in today's Indy Star... IU cuts 25 postions in layoff bracing for revenue sharing...

[jsenleo]

So this is really what it has come to... College athletics suck.
Push aside the people with families so a greedy college kid can have the money...

Link below.
IU cuts 25 Positions...

 

[Bucket Getter]

So this is really what it has come to... College athletics suck.
Push aside the people with families so a greedy college kid can have the money...

IU cuts 25 Positions...

Total horse bleep. Lady lost her job after 19 years. Worked her way up through multiple levels only to be dumped so a 19-year old with athletic potential gets rich. Totally f-ed up world.

 

[Crusty The Baker]

Consider that there is plenty of money to pay all of the workers (both players and now-laid off staff), but the people making the decisions are choosing to allocate money to themselves.

 

[OpenWheels]

The windfall profits the university has been benefiting from due to the massive increases in sports popularity and the associated mega media deals, didn't arise from the fine stewardship of the Indiana administrators.

Now it's time to pay the piper, IU will still get a large revenue stream but they have to pay for more of it.

If people are laid off, yet the university continues to fulfill it's mission, then those people will find something else more productive. Of course it sucks, but it's not the players 'greed' fault.

 

[YOTHN]

Total horse bleep. Lady lost her job after 19 years. Worked her way up through multiple levels only to be dumped so a 19-year old with athletic potential gets rich. Totally f-ed up world.

I'm sorry but respectfully, I think you have this backwards.

People should be pointing their ire at the NCAA for creating this situation that was founded falsely upon the backs of the athletes. Collegiate sports did not evolve and because the NCAA ran it like the mafia, it allowed for jobs that should never have been possible. Now people who spent a large time of their life in these jobs because the NCAA was able to generate these positions using the money that should not have been the NCAAs to begin with, the players are the ones left holding the bag? I don't blame the players as this should've started transitioning, albeit very slowly, back when we were kids.

 

[ams66]

"12 were open positions that are not being filled" so it's not 25 people being cut. And IDK about athletics or the people being directly affected by this, but the university overall has grown heavy with "Deputy Directors" and "Associate Directors" and "Assistant Directors" who really don't do a whole lot.

 

[kraft cheese+macaroni]

"12 were open positions that are not being filled" so it's not 25 people being cut. And IDK about athletics or the people being directly affected by this, but the university overall has grown heavy with "Deputy Directors" and "Associate Directors" and "Assistant Directors" who really don't do a whole lot.

A 17-year veteran of the IU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics, Mattie White is the Deputy Director of Athletics and Senior Woman Administrator.

White was named Deputy Director of Athletics in 2020 after serving in several other key leadership roles within the department for the previous 15 years. Her responsibilities include oversight of some of the department’s most critical areas, including IU Athletics’ academic services, sports medicine and nutrition, athletic performance, the Center for Elite Athlete Development, and the Excellence Academy. She provides guidance for the department’s Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) educational programming, diversity, equity and inclusion, gender equity and mental health initiatives. She also serves as the sport administrator for the football, women’s basketball, men’s and women’s cross country, men’s and women’s track and field, and wrestling programs.

 

[Tammany Hall]

I can’t tell much from a distance if any of these moves were good or bad. I feel bad for the IU-fan lifers that worked in the AD.

This is what, about $2M savings? That’s not much, I’d rather we get a sponsor for Memorial Stadium or the FB field or whatever to grow revenue for the rev share vs cutting to pay for it. But, I’m an outsider and I might be wrong.

 

[IUclover]

"12 were open positions that are not being filled" so it's not 25 people being cut. And IDK about athletics or the people being directly affected by this, but the university overall has grown heavy with "Deputy Directors" and "Associate Directors" and "Assistant Directors" who really don't do a whole lot.

As a former Assistant and Associate Director at IU, that’s not true in most departments (and many of these positions don’t pay enough).

 

[ams66]

As a former Assistant and Associate Director at IU, that’s not true in most departments (and many of these positions don’t pay enough).

Perhaps not so much in the academic departments, and like I said I was not judging these specific folks. Certainly the university administration in general has fat that could be trimmed.

 

[IUgradman]

Load up on the corporate sponsorships. Cook Stadium or Simon Field has a nice ring to it.

 

[Hoosier Clarion]

My business background tells me they've been running fat. Those jobs should never have been created in the 1st place if they don't need them now. But MBA's are like everyone else, they're brilliant until they're not.

 

[HoosierJimbo89]

I'll bet the plantation owners were bummed after slavery ended as well. IU has money, it is just going to the wrong places.

 

[Hoosier Clarion]

I'll bet the plantation owners were bummed after slavery ended as well. IU has money, it is just going to the wrong places.

BS. How bout this, if you run with bare minimum labor there is more $ available to pay the folks you have employed vs. running fat. Entrepreneurs know this fact, crystal clear.

 

[kraft cheese+macaroni]

I can’t tell much from a distance if any of these moves were good or bad. I feel bad for the IU-fan lifers that worked in the AD.

This is what, about $2M savings? That’s not much, I’d rather we get a sponsor for Memorial Stadium or the FB field or whatever to grow revenue for the rev share vs cutting to pay for it. But, I’m an outsider and I might be wrong.

But that still may b ehappening...we just don't know

 

[IUCrazy2]

IU has money, it is just going to the wrong places.

Like sports if we are being honest.