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The cost of losing | Athletics has survived football's decline so far. Can that continue?
By Matt Gelb and Ethan Ramsey
Syracuse University's athletic department has nearly offset a decline in football earnings the last two years with an increase in fund raising, according to university documents and a series of interviews with top officials at the school. The athletic department used its reserve funds to balance a $1.2 million deficit in 2006-07 and expects a "comparable" situation in 2007-08, senior associate athletic director Rob Edson said.
The cost of losing | Sidebar: The time is now
Football's turnaround needs to start in 2008. Or else, as Daryl Gross says, 'you can wreck it into the ground'
By Matt Gelb and Ethan Ramsey
Delone Carter slices through a hole and cuts back against the grain, his yellow pinnie flapping in the spring breeze and concealing the No. 3 that last ran free in 2006. A few yards away, Daryl Gross marvels at the rising redshirt sophomore's comeback from a dislocated hip last April that wiped out his 2007 season.
The cost of losing | Sidebar: Their fair share
The university just changed its entire budget model. Is Athletics subsidized too much? Too little? Just right?
By Matt Gelb and Ethan Ramsey
Chancellor Nancy Cantor's biggest external initiative since arriving at Syracuse University in 2004 remains the ubiquitous "Scholarship in Action," a concept aimed at students applying class work in their chosen field during college. Cantor's largest internal project is implementing a brand-new budget model for the university: Responsibility Center Management (RCM), which debuted in 2006-07.
The cost of losing | Sidebar: Getting a raise
Syracuse athletics is raising more money than ever. How? A more aggressive, yet welcoming approach
By Matt Gelb and Ethan Ramsey
Nancy Cantor kept coming back to it. It was the reason why Syracuse athletics has been able to sustain a substantial decrease in football revenues. It was how, at the same time, Director of Athletics Daryl Gross could raise the profile of his Olympic sports teams.
The cost of losing | Sidebar: From the top
Nancy Cantor stresses need to subsidize athletics to compensate for scholarship and Olympic sports costs
By Matt Gelb and Ethan Ramsey
Nancy Cantor knows big-time collegiate athletics. From her time as provost at Michigan to her stint as chancellor at Illinois to her current post as chancellor at Syracuse, she has dealt with the constant battle of fielding sports programs that are both successful on the field, off the field and on the books.
