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I l?zr n\ By Mike Hunt Sports I5dtt?r USC's Athletic Dep must receive $1 mi donations from the G Club and sell at leas tickets to each of the sev football games to ball budget this year, accc m fVia /l^nr UUI11I l . muvit, uiv uvpt business manager and athletic director. The Gamecocks have about 53,211 in attend their six home games lIp eluding tomorrow's g; Wake Forest in Willi; Stadium. Donations Gamecock Club have e? million, according to o The athletic depart reserves of more t million, according t< however he added reserve can be deplete tin 1 rt A/1 /\t *4 f/vrkiUnll M lauicu-uui luuiuan gan MOORE SAID the department operates million budget each ye you have to gene proximately half of t Saturdays, a milli reserve isn't very rr said. With its reserve, IJSC department is one of tl few to oDerate with a William F. Putin president in charge of said the number of u having reserves for th< department is not avail public. Moore, howevei between 80 and 90 pen nntinn'K nthloHr* operate at a deficit. "We are very pleas< are in the black," sail "We need this funding women's sports and t non revenue sports. "ft is absolutely i that we be in the black, relatively broad program." UNLIKE MANY of departments on car Sport thletic depa athletic department mus most of its own funds, aci artment to Moore. The athletic llion in ment has assumed about! amecock in expenses that were pre it 52,500 provided by the university en home- inrludo riistortinl rnr ance the ground work for athletic >rding to and events, he said, irtment's Moore also said the dep* assistant once received a port university-bookstore pre averaged fund USC's marching ance for "Sometime in the early , not in- university took ove ^ "The people in t ifm athletic departn Jm have more conc tfor students the anyone on cam'i j -John T. IV j5j business mar a,uu ctstjib ^ athletic din M **' ame with bookstore profits, and ale ams-Brice that took over the band a frnm thp nn crnvp fhp hanrl hark cceeded $1 Moore said. fficials. As a result, the ment has department paid mor han $1.5 $20,000 for band travel ai ) Moore; than $60,000 for the bai that the uniforms this year, acc< id by four Moore. nes. i athletic Students f< on a $4ar. "When The individual stud rate ap- tributes to the athleti* hat on 11 ment out of student al ion-dollar Of the $66.50 desigr luch," he student fees, the department receives $ rs athletic fees, which are givei le nation's athletic department f profit. university, through th< am, vice Allocations Committ ' athletics, approximately $450,000. niversities iir athletic THIS TOTAL is use able to the pay for non-revenu? r, said that sports which lose mc - * ?:? ?U, cent oi me coming w mwic, m* jartments department spends annually on non-reveni ed that we Therefore, he said, th d Putnam. ment loses $300,000 a ye to develop revenue sports. he various These sports include : - if ? {4UII, IIICll a aiiu vnmm imperative men's and women's s^ We have a track, cross-country athletic women's basketball, Softball, women's voile gymnastics. the other The $750,000 spent npus, the athletic department s an< rtment o t rniRP revenue soortK i cording costs only, and not depart- That's just to (250,000 scholarships a (viously salaries," Moore i r. These Football is the 01 e and generates funds f : fields department. The basketball irtment football, receives i :ion of the opposing tear >fits to road trips and 44 band. according to Mooi 70's the r the THE BASEBAL Moore said takes : than any other ? team in the count year), loses $100, lent The athletic d< ivilv received an addi . from four televisii WVTIk ~ of the football te football caa'ch director Jim Car lj'*/ have been at the Because USC i: OUS " a C0n^erenC( Coast Conference f fewer varsity teai lOOre associated with i aapr According to M< must have at lea tant funded by the i ment to compete BCtOr level. Carolina 1 teams for men women. AMONG THE ... - ... mg w.,,.. not fUnded by nd later department at Ui to us," wrestling, rugby, hockey, boxing athletic Members of the e than nd more id's new jrding to I ent conj depart- ^MgUM locations. V lated as *1^1 7 ^ ~c athletic m 16. These ti to the rom the ^ ; Student ee, total d to help ? sports, I >ney. Ac- f _____ 1 athletic $750,000 Conference, Sou ie snorts. nn,i a nit uwu 111 v-c*i e depart- support such tef ar on non- athletic depart , ? departments lo baseball, i s tennis, Moore said dimming, having more sp< , soccer, jevej (jeais w|th women s going to pay for yball and carien pressed interest by the having the best on non- ?or ^ sports th dm< <ne of ft s for "direct the ath custodial care. "I do buy travel, class," nd coaches' class o said. I An p nly sport which l^am or the athletic statu^ team, unlike no money from "J? ns for making breaks even," 1171} re- in ,L team, which W6 in more money r ollege baseball JVf'i ry ($20,000 last 000 each year. epartment has the itinnnl *7*n ftrtft yi i/v^vw :>n appearances TlOTi am since head and athletic len and Moore university. VIC1 s not affiliated J . e (left Atlantic I Ch< in 1971), it has 1 us than schools I conferences. I oore, a school st seven sports seasor ithletic depart- inter? at tne varsity soccer has 10 varsity year a and six for of less Carl soccei sports that are the s the athletic existc SC are fencing, tiravrv , lacrosse, field ; and others. SCH Atlantic Coast a full k.o. ithern Conference and ern Conference adde< ims through their form ments, yet such team se money each 13-3-1 the problem of >rts at the varsity funding. "Who's them?" he said. Mo and Moore ex- cepti in the university the $ possible facilities fees ?at are funded by assui iney >?ii \rtmt\o letic department. each n't believe in going second ' "Th Carlen said. "We go first studei r not at all." ticket sample is the USC soccer the oj which received varsity athlet for the first time this past is absolutely yerative to be i the black,. f need this j ding to develop ? nen"s sports and *: various ? >> / r v uv rtuv spur us. llliam F. Putman b president in ^ irge of athletics NgSj H NflAA rlflpcatfi MM i. Carlen said individuals camp sted in starting a varsity team approached him a them go with a proposed budget ticke than $5,000. avail en refused to start varsity He at that time. This season, ment occer team came into anal ilinA iiri+Vi o Ki?/lrf/vf /\ C rvnlin 'WW mill cx UUU^CI Ul pv/uv )0, according to Carlen. class pay IOLARSHIPS, new stands, fillet time coach, a score board class U! stud on't believe athl ma) , avai jomg second in hav< [ invo s. We go first thc ??] is or not at all." mar 1' UI --Jim Carlen ,fhae' head football Gt! coach and unc unc athletic bus be sai I dei traveling expenses were chi I to the club soccer team to bei varsity soccer. The soccer thr finished^ the season with a Ho record this year. up* Mo cos Tickets ad< ore said that a miscon- de| on among students is that for 16 coming from the student cai to the athletic department lot es the student of a ticket to reserve USC home football game, ere is no place where the it fee entitles the student a Moore said. "It provides iportunity to attend all the ic events that go on at the > * \ ' ^Lj6r | )US. s far as football, it provides the opportunity to pick up a t as long as tickets are able," Moore added. said the athletic depart's policy on ticket pick-up is ogous to the university's :y of student sign-up for ?es at registration. "If you for a class and the class is I, you cannot get in that 5C has 15,644 full-time ents paying student fees. The etic department has a timum of 10,800 tickets lable to students. only one instance this year 3 student tickets run out. This lved the third home game of season against Georgia. FELT badly for the young t or woman that went to the man game and the Kentucky ne and couldn't go because of fat cats that went to the >rgia game. It's a very emotional issue. I lerstand that. People have to lerstand that the ticket ^ iness is uie worst business to * in. You can't win," Moore d. le said that the athletic >artment has made several inges in ticket pick-up for the lefit of students, including OA^Iau ninlr.nnc of fVio D1 ippaI 1 w VIM J pivnupo u i me i vuoti^'i i use instead of one-day picki at the Coliseum. According to ore, this change in policy has it the athletic department an iitional $15,000 a year. 'The people in the athletic >artment have more concern students than anyone on npus," Moore said. "It cost a more to do it that way, but it's what the students wanted."