There was some buzz floating around Saturday that perhaps the football stadium might be discussed at today's Board of Trustees Athletics Committee meeting, but it was not. There was a part of the agenda called Upgrading and Enhancing Facilities, but that time was spent on talking about the upgrades and enhancements - for the most part - to the Olympic sports, including the McGonigle Hall weight room enhancements, the Gym 100 upgrades in Pearson Hall, the crew team's dedicated ERG room and enhanced graphics in the women's locker rooms. There's also a new academic support area for football.
This was a public session, and there was no executive (private) athletics committee session today, I was told by a university spokesperson.
The next Board of Trustees meeting will be tomorrow at the Health Sciences Campus, but I've been told that any talk of a football stadium is unlikely to be part of the conversation. Again, that's not to say a stadium will not be built at some point, but to anyone anxious about a discussion of it or announcement, I'm sorry to disappoint you.
There were some interesting updates and talking points to come out of the meeting, with a lot of talk surrounding the cost of attendance issue. Those numbers have already been published elsewhere, most prominently by USA Today, but it was interesting to see some additional drill-down on those numbers and what's being done around the country.
Temple provides a $2,500 cost of attendance stipend to all of its student athletes, but Kevin Clark noted that the university isn't using its entire allocation that it has set aside in that baseline number so that it can provide assistance with additional things that come up (i.e. home emergencies, death in the family, etc.). Temple doesn't provide as much as other athletic programs, but it is interesting to see how other places report it, and it's also interesting to note that some places only provide a cost of attendance stipend for certain sports and more for others. ECU, for example, provides $4,025 for football, men's basketball and women's basketball and $2,025 for other sports. Pitt provides a cost of attendance stipend of $3,296 for student athletes on full scholarship, while Penn State provides $4,788. Cincinnati provides anywhere from $5,504 to $7,018 for football, men's and women's basketball and women's volleyball. Women's tennis is included in that group just for 2015-16.
Clark said students can still get a $3,500 PELL grant, so the cost of attendance does not replace that grant.
Some other notes:
There are four Temple teams with GPAs of 3.5 or better - field hockey (3.57), women's soccer (3.57), lacrosse (3.56) and volleyball (3.55).
The university is also engaged in a head impact study called Protect the Player, Protect the Game to measure the impact of subconcussional head inpacts. More than 30 football players had blood drawn for the study, which is being run by Dr. T. Dianne Langford.
This was a public session, and there was no executive (private) athletics committee session today, I was told by a university spokesperson.
The next Board of Trustees meeting will be tomorrow at the Health Sciences Campus, but I've been told that any talk of a football stadium is unlikely to be part of the conversation. Again, that's not to say a stadium will not be built at some point, but to anyone anxious about a discussion of it or announcement, I'm sorry to disappoint you.
There were some interesting updates and talking points to come out of the meeting, with a lot of talk surrounding the cost of attendance issue. Those numbers have already been published elsewhere, most prominently by USA Today, but it was interesting to see some additional drill-down on those numbers and what's being done around the country.
Temple provides a $2,500 cost of attendance stipend to all of its student athletes, but Kevin Clark noted that the university isn't using its entire allocation that it has set aside in that baseline number so that it can provide assistance with additional things that come up (i.e. home emergencies, death in the family, etc.). Temple doesn't provide as much as other athletic programs, but it is interesting to see how other places report it, and it's also interesting to note that some places only provide a cost of attendance stipend for certain sports and more for others. ECU, for example, provides $4,025 for football, men's basketball and women's basketball and $2,025 for other sports. Pitt provides a cost of attendance stipend of $3,296 for student athletes on full scholarship, while Penn State provides $4,788. Cincinnati provides anywhere from $5,504 to $7,018 for football, men's and women's basketball and women's volleyball. Women's tennis is included in that group just for 2015-16.
Clark said students can still get a $3,500 PELL grant, so the cost of attendance does not replace that grant.
Some other notes:
There are four Temple teams with GPAs of 3.5 or better - field hockey (3.57), women's soccer (3.57), lacrosse (3.56) and volleyball (3.55).
The university is also engaged in a head impact study called Protect the Player, Protect the Game to measure the impact of subconcussional head inpacts. More than 30 football players had blood drawn for the study, which is being run by Dr. T. Dianne Langford.
