Universities Should Raise Money In Sport Essay
In reality the clubs usually don’t receive enough money to fundraise and that is where the provincial government comes in to help find venues and other amenities for cheaper prices or get government funding. Many clubs have expenses at Brock such as clothing/uniform purchases, equipment purchases, they have small budgets, funding limitations and paying to set up special events. This leads all the executives scurrying to get as many volunteers as possible because it is expensive to pay the clubs and teams the funds they need to keep up a good sporting program, a promise made on Brock’s mission statement. Getting the volunteers also keeps them in the quasi-public sector and is a cheap way to save money. Another way universities raise money for athletics is to get
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Reading and discussing it though woke me up to a realization that the CIS is basically running on their own heels because for some odd reason they cannot create more revenue in order to support other sports programs across post-secondary schools in Canada. I don’t understand how on earth the NCAA can advertise so well with their own sports were as in Canada with the CIS the only big time event I ever hear on national TV is the Vanier Cup. If the CIS wants to expand to grow revenue I believe that they should change some rules such as changing football format to the NFL rather than the CFL format. I think with the growth of NFL football lately in Canada it would increase ticket sales and revenue to help fund schools sports programs in the country. It is disappointing to me mostly how many Canadians do not appreciate collegiate sports. The CIS needs to do this to grow revenue, if they don’t I believe we will see more and more college sport programs being cut across the country because of lack of funds for sport
Reading and discussing it though woke me up to a realization that the CIS is basically running on their own heels because for some odd reason they cannot create more revenue in order to support other sports programs across post-secondary schools in Canada. I don’t understand how on earth the NCAA can advertise so well with their own sports were as in Canada with the CIS the only big time event I ever hear on national TV is the Vanier Cup. If the CIS wants to expand to grow revenue I believe that they should change some rules such as changing football format to the NFL rather than the CFL format. I think with the growth of NFL football lately in Canada it would increase ticket sales and revenue to help fund schools sports programs in the country. It is disappointing to me mostly how many Canadians do not appreciate collegiate sports. The CIS needs to do this to grow revenue, if they don’t I believe we will see more and more college sport programs being cut across the country because of lack of funds for sport