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University Press • Friday, March 30, 2001 • Page 2
Athletics
Continued from page 1
the athletic department, Bil-
lick said.
Self-generated funds in-
cluded gate receipts, fund-
raising and corporate sponsor-
ship.
“The student service fee is
about 60 percent of our bud-
get, and we self-generate 35
percent, which is among the
highest in conference,” Billick
said. “I am satisfied that we
are doing our part to self-gen-
erate money.”
Each coach is required to
do fund-raising to add to his or
her respective sports budget,
Billick said, and there are a
number of factors that deter-
mine the amount of money
each team receives.
The factors include priori-
ty sports, fairness, consistently
successful sports, public rela-
tions value to the school and
the potential to self-generate
revenue.
The priority sports at
Lamar are men’s and women’s
basketball, Billick said,
because basketball fits the cri-
teria listed above. Men’s bas-
ketball is the largest source of
self-generated income, which
is a factor in the sport’s larger
budget.
“The ability to generate
revenue is a factor,” Billick
said. “It’s wise to take a look
and see that basketball has
10,000 seats and we have a
chance to generate a certain
amount of dollars.
“Any businessman will
tell you that is where you are
going to put a significant por-
tion of your efforts because
that’s where you will get the
most return. For the budget to
expand to help out the other
sports is for basketball to suc-
ceed.
“We averaged 3,500 in
attendance this season. If we
can double the attendance and
I can double my income, that
money does not go back to
basketball. The money goes
back to the athletic budget so
we can help the other sports.”
The sports with the high-
est numbers of athletes are
track and baseball. The 44
track athletes represent six of
the sports sponsored at
Lamar. Baseball has 43 ath-
letes in its program. Both
sports have three coaches.
Three coaches for this
number of athletes may seem
strange when compared to
women’s basketball with four
coaches for 15 players and
men’s basketball with five
coaches for 15 players.
Lamar, however, has
roughly the same number of
coaches in track, golf, volley-
ball, baseball and tennis as
other members of the
Southland Conference, accor-
ding to the SLC athletic sur-
vey.
Lamar is also in line with
other SLC schools in the num-
ber of half-time coaches,
according to the survey. Half-
time coaches teach a few class-
es to earn the other half of
their salaries.
Billick said that he is look-
ing for ways to pay the coach-
es and staff more money.
As for travel, Billick said,
for safety reasons he is seeking
a way to get the teams with
large numbers of athletes to
ride in buses to games rather
than in vans.
Tennis, gojf, track and
volleyball currently ride in
vans. Although tennis, golf
and cross country have a small
number of athletes that would
justify vans, Billick said, the
department will seek ways to
get its athletes to ride buses as
much as possible.
On the net: www.athletics.lamar.edu
link to coaches and rosters
Athletics statistics
Travel budgets
Sport
2000-01
2001-02
Men’s Basketball
$78,650
$90,340
Women’s Basketball
$86,650
$87,020
Baseball
$30,968
$30,968
Volleyball
$22,694
$21,000
Track
$11,500
$11,500
Golf
$17,288
$17,288
Tennis
$6,470
$6,470
www.lamar.edu, link budget, item No. 217508-217526
Coaches and players
Sport
Coaches/ Assistants
Roster CoachzRoster Ratio
Men’s Basketball
5
15 1:3
Women’s Basketball
4
15 1:4
Baseball
3
43 1:14
Volleyball
2
12 1:6
Track
3
44 1:15
Golf
2
22 1:11
Tennis
2
16 1:8
Skull-
Continued from page 1
In a commentary accompanying the study,
George Washington University anthropologist
Daniel Lieberman said the discovery of the
ancient skull adds to the confusion about the
human evolutionary tree. He said it also adds
to the evidence that there were several human-
like species between 3.5 million and 2 million
years ago that adapted well to different envi-
ronments.
The latest discovery, made during field
work sponsored by the National Geographic
Society, is part of a series of fossil finds over the
past 15 years that has nearly doubled the num-
ber of recognized human-like species, he said.
“To those of us who are interested in
reconstructing the evolutionary history of our
species, these discoveries have been fun, if a lit-
tle bewildering,” Lieberman said.
On the Net:
Nature: http://www.nature.com
National Geographic: http://www.nationalgeographic.com
All fun, no flames
OPKevin Gilliam
The Nederland Heritage Festival, celebrated through Sunday, featured carnival attractions,
live entertainment, a chili cook-off and a parade, at which a young onlooker waves to pass-
ing firemen.
Civil engineers to build concrete boat
Today and Saturday, sever-
al Lamar chapter American
Society of Civil Engineers
(ASCE) members will be in San
Antonio to compete against
members from other universi-
ties from across the state and
Mexico in the annual Concrete
Canoe Competition.
ASCE and Master Buil-
ders Inc. sponsor the event. The
University of Texas at San
Antonio is hosting the event this
year. This inter-collegiate com-
petition requires students to
design, fabricate and race a con-
crete canoe. The canoe is re-
quired to consist of 70 percent
Portland cement by weight and
may contain admixtures and/or
reinforcement for strength and
stability.
The canoe will be judged on
an oral and written presenta-
tion, a display, the canoe itself,
and five canoe races. The races
will consist of two male-only and
two female-only races in addi-
tion to one coed race. The canoe
team with the highest score will
win the competition. The win-
ner is invited to compete at a
national level for scholarship
prizes.
Transit Mix donated the
materials, M&D Supply provid-
ed the use of some equipment,
and Tammy Adaway of Soileau-*/
Printing painted the canoe. The
Lamar student chapter has
received monetary donations
from Gilbert, Beaumont Engi-
neering, Bob Shaw Consulting
Engineers, the Green Foun-
dation and others.
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