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BOTTOM EARNERUntil recently, Jeremiah

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Asan employee of The Daily Illini, I typically experience two respons-es whenever the topic of the paper’s

Salary Guide comes up in conversation. “I saw [Professor X] makes [a lot of mon-

ey]. That’s outrageous!”… and …“Why do you guys do that every year? It’s

so invasive.” The first, it would seem, is to most be

desired.But the second response – along with

all the criticisms we receive about Salary Guide’s invasiveness – are what we hope this guide precipitates.

For the highly paid employees, this should at least help them feel accountable for the thousands of dollars they receive from Illi-nois taxpayers and University students. But I don’t hear those complaints quite as often from the top earners – those people are used to, at least to some extent, being under some degree of public scrutiny.

For me, it’s always harder to respond to the lower-earning employees. I can’t go to a counselor earning $30,000, and tell her that I’m publishing this simply because it’s a public record. There are lots of public records – some sensitive, some not – that we don’t publish.

It’s about performing a valuable service, and by having and publishing that record, we are holding the University accountable for what it pays all of its employees, not just its top earners whose pay is regularly scru-tinized. So this is a tool for you, the read-er, whomever you may be. When you’re an employee who suspects you may be earning less than others performing the same job, this Salary Guide becomes a tool for that you. At a time when graduate students are negotiating a contract, when salaries and hiring are thawing out, it’s somewhat advan-tageous to have every one of these data points completely transparent and available to the public.

The DI first started doing the guide amid an unprecedented level of fiscal constraints in March 2010. Faculty were taking fur-lough days, pay was being cut, and hiring freezes were common.

So looking at the numbers this year, feel free to muse on the simple arithmetic that we’ve left up to you. After a year of enor-mous payoffs and golden parachutes – like former President Michael Hogan’s chief of staff, who received a lump sum of $175,000 to agree to walk away quietly – you should wonder how fair that is to those like Jeremi-ah Wright, who earns a mere fraction of that working full-time as a laboratory helper.

This guide, and its sister database, is by no means exhaustive, but we hope this helps readers understand more how money is spent on this campus.

Nathaniel can be reached at [email protected].

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E mployees’ salaries are one of the main components of the University’s budget. The salaries we requested this year add up to just under $1.5 billion. With the University’s ongoing process of reviewing its spending and making decisions in this budget crisis, there has never been such an important time for transparency.

In publishing this guide, The Daily Illini aims to continue the transparency the administration has begun. In this issue, not only is the public able to see how Illinois tax and tuition dollars are spent, but readers are also able to attain a sense of the University’s hierarchy.

We feel it is the right of Illinois taxpayers, and the University’s tuition-paying students to see how their money is being spent at the University, including on salaries.

The figures listed in this guide do not include all compensation, such as overtime, benefits and other pay means. It does, however, list part-time and full-time employees. It goes without saying that many factors affect how much each employee is paid, including experience, education, specialized training and skill level. Regardless, our philosophy is that more information is better than less information, and that the more access readers have to this information, the better job the University will do in using that money wisely.

The information provided this year is different from prior editions – in order to provide readers with the most up-to-date information, we’re presenting “Grey Book” data, which is provided by the University with information on academic, salaried appointments.

This means the data for University of Illinois employees is current as of September 2012, when the board of trustees approved the salaries for all University employees.

In past editions of Salary Guide, The Daily Illini has published “snapshot” data from the summer, which took monthly salaries during those months and multiplied them by 12, for each month. These salaries that we’re presenting instead are based on the annual appointments that will carry through the forthcoming year, which also ensures that our database includes the administrative appointments that didn’t take effect until the beginning of this year. For non-academic, civil service wages, the University provided us with their average salary based on hourly wages for 52 40-hour weeks a year.

This print edition focuses on the context of top employees’ pay compared to their peers, and provides an in-depth look at the budget for the Division of Intercollegiate Athletics. To access the full database of employee pay, log on to DailyIllini.com.

Isn’t publishing people’s pay personal?Like many other things published by The Daily Illini, state employees’ salaries are public

record. Salary Guide does not include personal information such as addresses, phone numbers or social security numbers.

Anyone can file an Illinois Freedom of Information Act request to obtain the information we’ve printed here. And for all academic positions, anyone can download the University’s Grey Book as a PDF from uillinois.edu – but we don’t expect that to be nearly as accessible as the database we’ve presented.

My professor’s salary isn’t listed in this guide like it was last year. Is this going to be available online?

In prior years, The Daily Illini published listings of the highest-earning employees on campus. We will not be doing this this year, but every salary is available in a searchable database on DailyIllini.com. In addition to posting the Urbana salaries online, employee salaries for the Chicago and Springfield campuses will also be available. You can also compare current salaries to previous Salary Guides, although previous years will be based on summer snapshots of payroll, and not the Grey Book appointments that we will be publishing from here on out.

Guide keeps UI accountable NATHANIEL LASHManaging editor for reporting

WHY A SALARY GUIDE?

BY TAYLOR GOLDENSTEIN NEWS EDITOR

Meet Jeremiah Buchanan. He makes $18,824 a year, just over minimum wage. That’s about 1 percent of the $1.6 million that football head coach Tim Beckman receives and only covers a fraction of what he needs to cover rent, car payments and child sup-port for his 3-year-old daughter.

He is a veteran and a high school gradu-ate, and as of this summer, he had the low-est salary of any paid full-time employee at the University.

Buchanan, 22, is one of 751 such employ-ees who make $30,000 or less per year. He works as a laboratory helper in the Division of Animal Resources.

Like the rest of the more than 104,000 full-time employees who hold civil service posi-tions, his salary is set through a collective bargaining agreement with the University and union representatives.

For Buchanan, though, his union is noth-ing more than a name on his pay stub. No one from the union has ever contacted him, he said, and even after about a year on the job, he feels detached from the collective bargaining process.

Buchanan said he wishes he could have more of a say in what his salary should be.

“I would just like to know why I make what I do and why they don’t really see the need to increase it,” he said.

As football and basketball coaches rack in salaries in the millions and top Univer-sity administrators reliably pull six-figure salaries — even former president B. Joseph White, who resigned during the 2009 clout scandal, still makes nearly $300,000 — on the other end of the spectrum, civil service and other University staff like Buchanan face a daily struggle.

The State Universities Civil Service Sys-tem is led by an 11-member Merit Board, made up of representatives from every Illi-nois public universities’ board of trustees, which approves salary ranges. All other uni-versities have one representative, but, as the largest employer in the system, the Univer-sity of Illinois has three.

“These are tough times,” executive direc-tor Tom Morelock said. “Salaries have taken a hit in every classification of our system in the last four or five years.”

The low laboratory helper salary, though, seems to be deterring employees from

remaining in the position for the long term, Buchanan said.

It isn’t enough for him either. Only six months into his University employment, Buchanan began looking for another job, even-tually filling in as a medical request logger at Carle Foundation Hospital’s Information Management Center in Champaign.

“I really don’t take home a lot from the U of I job,” he said. “I guess (this salary) could (support) a normal person, but I have other things I have to pay for, so that’s why I had to go out and get this second job.”

But despite the insufficient pay, he said there is one thing keeping him on the job.

“The only reason I still have it, for the most part, is for the benefits, the insurance,” Buchanan said.

University employees receive both state and University benefits. State benefits include health, dental and vision care and life insur-ance, and the University benefits include some of the same benefits along with retirement plans.

The benefits are a large part of what is keep-ing child development associate Lisa Pann-backer, another civil service employee, at the University. Pannbacker, 48, had worked for six years at the Rantoul Head Start preschool, a part of Champaign County Head Start. The federally funded program offers free services to low-income families with young children.

“I wanted better benefits, and the Universi-ty provided better benefits, better retirement, and that was probably the biggest incentive to leave (Head Start),” she said.

Like Buchanan, the low salary of a child development associate has put a financial strain on her and her family. Both of Pan-nbacker’s sons work in civil service jobs at the University, one a grounds worker and the other building service worker, and they, respectively, make about $9,000 and $14,000 more than she does with her annual salary of $21,370.05.

“When I look at what dollar amount is paid, is my value any less than a BSW or a grounds crew member?” she said. “It’s hard to look at (the numbers). Parents trust their children’s lives with us, and you start out making $9 and some odd cents an hour, and it’s kind of sad.”

Two years ago, her husband lost the job he had held for 33 years as an automobile radia-tor repairman. He’s still looking for work.

Meanwhile, he has been focusing on corn and soybean farming at home. It’s “hit or

miss,” she said, especially with this sum-mer’s drought.

“For once, I am the sole bread winner,” Pannbacker said.

Pannbacker said there is a misconception that what she does is day care, but being a child development associate, with the cer-tificate that took her four years of training to acquire, requires a lot more work than people think.

“A lot has changed in early childhood education. Children are expected to learn so much more, earlier than what they did before,” she said. “Kindergarten isn’t for playing blocks and coloring anymore. … I’m really challenged to do more of the teach-ing part now.”

Pannbacker said she thinks that if parents of her students ever found out how much she is making, they would be really shocked.

“Probably what is most difficult thing to accept is that what I do during the day is not rewarded at all through monetary means — it truly has to be that you enjoy working with children,” she said.

And she does. Pannbacker said she wants to do this until she can’t anymore.

“Even at my age, I love it. I really do,” she said. “Today we were digging in our garden from the spring, and I’m like, how many peo-ple get to look at the world every day as a 4- or 5-year-old would? It’s incredible. Everything is new to them. To find a grub worm is exciting. You may not think so and a lot of the people around may not think so, but it’s exciting when you can see a child and say: ‘Ooh! I found one, too! Here, let’s look at it!’ That’s why I do it.”

Not everyone has that personal connection to their work as Pannbacker does, though, which makes the low salary easier to come to terms with.

Buchanan recently received a 38-cents-an-hour raise. For now, he will search for high-er-paying University jobs. It’s the system that he clutches onto for the protections it ensures for himself and his daughter, but it’s also the system that clutches onto him, insisting on the incessant washing, sorting and filing that has become his everyday life, at least for 12 hours a day.


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NATHANIEL LASH THE DAILY ILLINIJeremiah Buchanan, a 22-year-old laboratory helper, earns $18,824 a year working full time for the Division of Animal Research. Until he received a 38-cents-per-hour raise in September, he was the lowest earning full-time employee on the Urbana campus. Now he’s tied for second-lowest earner.


$1,600,000TIM BECKMANPosition name: Head football coachTerm began: 2012At $1.6 million, Beckman is the highest-paid employee in the University of Illinois’ history. Hailing from University of Toledo, where he made $400,000, Beckman coaches his first BCS football team, his second head coaching job. Signed in December, Beckman’s contract promises $9 million over five years with potential bonuses for bowl appearances and other successes.

$1,400,000JOHN GROCEPosition name: Head men’s basketball coachTerm began: 2012After heavy contract disputes, Groce earns $100,000 more than his predecessor. Groce earned $307,985 at his previous coaching job at Ohio University, where he led the Bobcats to a Sweet 16 appearance in last year’s NCAA Tournament. Groce has signed on to make $1.4 million annually over the next five years.

$489,250MICHAEL THOMASPosition name: Athletic directorTerm began: 2011In his second year as athletic director, Thomas made some noise after firing three major coaches in his first year while all three still had time left on their contracts. Earning a $14,250 pay increase, Thomas had two teams make it to the national championship, including one winning, along with three Big Ten title teams.

$400,000CHRISTOPHER BEATTYPosition name: Assistant football coachTerm began: 2012Beatty is in his first season as the co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. He was previously the wide receivers coach and offensive recruiting coordinator at Vanderbilt, where he coached in the 2011 Liberty Bowl. In 2007, he was the running backs coach for Northern Illinois.

$402,796ARTHUR KRAMERPosition name: Director of Beckman InstitueTerm began: 2010Specializing in neuroscience, Kramer leads the interdisciplinary Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology that involves researchers probing biological intelligence, human-computer interactions, integrative imaging and nanotechnology.

$450,000ROBERT EASTERPosition name: PresidentTerm began: 2012After several failed attempts to retire, Easter is starting this year as the president of the university he’s been an administrator in for 36 years. His contract is for two years as president, after which time the board of trustees said, his contract will either be extended or the University will start a search for a new president.

$400,000BILLY GONZALEZPosition name: Assistant football coachTerm began: 2012Gonzalez comes to Illinois for his first season as co-offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach after helping LSU reach the 2012 BCS National Championship game as passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach. He spent five years at Florida as the wide receivers coach during two national championship titles in 2006 and 2008.

$512,500PHYLLIS WISEPosition name: ChancellorTerm began: 2011As chancellor of the University’s flagship campus and vice president of the University, Wise went through a tumultuous first year where her boss, Michael Hogan, was pressured into resigning. Wise has a $500,000 retention bonus that will materialize in 2016.

$400,000TIM BANKSPosition name: Assistant football coachTerm began: 2012In his first season as the defensive coordinator, Banks comes from two years at Cincinnati, the same school Michael Thomas came from, and the previous three years at Central Michigan. Beckman and Banks coached together at Bowling Green in 1999 and 2000.

$430,000ILESANMI ADESIDAPosition name: Provost and vice chancellor for academic affairsTerm began: 2012Coming in as provost, Adesida received a 59 percent increase in salary from his predecessor, Linda Katehi. The new job he took in August also reflects a $100,000 raise from his previous position as the University’s highest-paid dean as the leader of engineering.

The trend at the University of Illinois is upward. With the market

demanding higher salaries for administrators and coaches, the University has seen growing salaries for all of its top employees increasing.

This year features some notable differences from previous editions of Salary Guide. The highest-paid nonathletic official is not the president, but rather the chancellor. The provost, who oversees all things academic on campus, is also among the ranks of the top-10 paid employees for the first time, though it’s that particular employee’s third time on this page.

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ROBERT EASTERpresident

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The University administration is overseen by the board of trustees, which is appointed by the governor of Illinois. The positions listed below are top administrators for all three campuses.

PHYLLIS WISEchancellor/vice president, Urbana

$512,500$500,000 as of last year

SUSAN J. KOCHchancellor/vice president, Springfield

$225,500$220,000 as of last year

PAULA ALLEN-MEARESchancellor/vice president, Chicago

$411,752$388,125 as of last year

JOE G. N. GARCIAvice president for health affairs

$805,863$799,800 as of last year

WALTER KNORRvice president/chief financial officer and comptroller

$312,958$305,325 as of last year

LAWRENCE B. SCHOOKvice president for research

$336,875$303,067 as of last year

CHRISTOPHE PIERREvice president for academic affairs

$381,777$374,750 as of last year

PHYLLIS WISEchancellor

C. RENEE ROMANOvice chancellor for student affairs

MIKE THOMASdirector, Division of Intercollegiate Athletics

JEFF CHRISTENSENexecutive director of public safety

JOHN GARRETT DEMPSEYexecutive director of facilities and services

ILESANMI ADESIDAvice chancellor for academic affairs and provost

PETER SCHIFFERvice chancellor for research

MIKE ANDRECHAKassocite chancellor and vice provost for budgets and resource planning

$512,500 $500,000 as of last yearWise was named the chancellor of the Urbana campus on Aug. 3, 2011. Before Illinois, Wise was the interim vice president of the University of Washington, stepping away from her term as provost, which she received in 2005. She also serves as a member of Nike Inc.’s board of directors.

$190,000 $176,500 as of last yearDempsey acts as the chief operational officer for the Urbana campus, with responsibilities including maintaining the physical campus, overseeing construction and remodeling, critical incident management, and mailing and parking services.

$175,000Christensen comes into the role of director of public safety and chief of police after having already gotten a taste of the job — he served as the interim head before the hiring of his predecessor, Barbara O’Connor.

$489,250 $475,000 as of last yearThomas made a splash after his first season on campus. Hiring new football and men’s and women’s basketball head coaches, Thomas is headed into his second year on campus under the shadow of previous athletic director Ron Guenther.

$228,000 $221,000 as of last yearRomano began working with student affairs in 1979 at the University of New Hampshire. In Urbana, Romano works closely with the provost’s and chancellor’s offices, emphasizing leadership and career development.

$300,000Schiffer comes to Illinois this year from Penn State, where he was the associate vice president for research and director of strategic initiatives. He now heads the policymaking and oversight office for the University’s research mission.

$430,000 $337,140 as of last yearAdesida was promoted at the end of last year to take over as provost and vice chancellor after serving for six years as the head of the College of Engineering. Born in Nigeria, Adesida steps into a role that has not been filled permanently since Linda Katehi, now chancellor of UC-Davis, left in 2009.

$235,750 $187,200 as of last yearAndrechak oversees the budget process annually and monitors the financial health of the campus. Before coming to the provost’s office, he served as the director of the Office of Budgets and Financial Analysis.

LEADERS OF THE URBANA CAMPUS

Other top earners:THOMAS BEARROWSUniversity counsel$298,637 $291,353 as of last year

AVIJIT GHOSHspecial assistant to the president$294,090 $286,230 as of last year

TOM HARDYexecutive director for University relations$204,287 $199,305 as of last year

ROBIN KALERdirector of public affairs, Urbana$196,185, $174,000 as of last year

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APPLIED HEALTH SCIENCE

$266,763TANYA M. GALLAGHER

$259,670 as of last year

ACES

$269,633ROBERT HAUSER


MEDIA

$204,800JANET SLATER

$161,205 as of last year*interim

EDUCATION

$264,298MARY KALANTZIS


$402,796ARTHUR KRAMER$$320,980 as of last year

BECKMAN

LAS

$287,500RUTH WATKINS$280,000 as of last year

VET. MED

$229,741HERBERT WHITELEY


FAA

$234,651ROBERT GRAVES$228,874 as of last year

ENGINEERING

$316,667MICHAEL BRAGG


FIRE SERVICE

$149,409RICHARD JAEHNE


GRADUATE COLLEGE

$287,083DEBASISH DUTTA


LAW

$318,310BRUCE SMITH


SOCIAL WORK

$240,527WYNNE KORR


LIBRARY & INFO SCIENCE

$179,500ALLEN RENEAR$150,000 as of last year

POLICE TRAINING

$175,000JEFF CHRISTENSEN

First year

LABOR EMPLOYMENT

$195,326JOE MARTOCCHIO


MEDICINE

$386,118URETZ OLIPHANT$386,118 as of last year

BUSINESS

$360,340LAWERENCE DEBROCK$351,559 as of last year

Listed is a breakdown of the deans of the Urbana campus. It lists top earners to bottom earners.DEANS

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MONETARY RESTRICTIONS HINDER MANY ILLINOIS SPORTSMen’s track and fi eld faces scheduling diffi culties based on travel expenses

Men’s basketball, football the only profi table sports at Illinois

$424,129 $291,347$3,283,452 $218,186$345,643 $483,566 $517,231 $475,180$158,179

$158,179

MEN’S BASKETBALL MEN’S GYMNASTICSFOOTBALL WOMEN’S GOLFBASEBALL WOMEN’S BASKETBALL WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS SOCCERMEN’S GOLF

The football team has more scholarships than those of any other sport at the University. Considering the team’s size and profitability,

that’s no surprise. More unexpected might be the fact that women’s track and cross-country, swimming and volleyball follow in highest dollar amount of financial aid.

This infographic shows the total number of athletes receiving scholarships, as well the number of full rides all of these scholarships add up to.

BY THOMAS BRUCHSTAFF WRITER

When Mike Turk approaches the task of scheduling for the upcoming season, the Illinois men’s track and fi eld head coach will have more than a few hurdles he needs his team to overcome.

He knows that he has the smallest bud-get in his sport in the Big Ten and one that does not even crack the top 50 nationally. He understands that his team cannot play close to home in the early months of the season because of the long winters in the Midwest. He realizes that cost-effective-ness is part of his job title. Cheaper fl ights. Scheduling meets that don’t span as many days. Possibly facing lesser competition. Eliminating opportunities for his team.

“Something I work on every day is reduc-ing costs,” Turk said. “It is a constant bat-tle for everyone in our department.”

Track and fi eld isn’t the only spring

sport that endures the travails of travel because of cold weather in the early sea-son. Illinois baseball head coach Dan Har-tleb and Illinois softball head coach Terri Sullivan migrate their respective teams to warmer climates almost every week-end in February and early March . Tal-lying up the airfare, food costs and hotel fees for each weekend jaunt adds up to an expensive total.

According to the 2011 fi nancial report fi led by the Division of Intercollegiate Ath-letics to the NCAA, the baseball team’s travel expenses totaled to $218,463, rough-ly 19 percent of the sport’s total expenses for the year. Softball’s $131,169 in travel-ing expenses represents 13 percent of their total spending, while men’s track and fi eld, which also includes men’s cross-country, spent $163,018 on travel.

These expenses aren’t substantially higher than other Illinois sports, but their

bottom lines are. Outside of women’s bas-ketball, baseball and softball lose the most money annually for the athletics depart-ment. Baseball lost $534,370 in 2011, and softball was in the red $437,640. Men’s track and fi eld wasn’t far behind, with $321,869 in total losses in 2011.

Revenue sports like football and men’s basketball cover these losses in order for the DIA to turn an annual profi t, but the perpetual travel and relative lack of home events for outdoor spring sports translate to fi scal blows that the athletic department is forced to swallow.

Innovative measures to combat these costs are the subject of offseason meet-ings and discussions for coaches in north-ern United States schools. Sullivan said the softball season starts two weeks lat-er than it did when she began coaching at Illinois in 2000, and the next logical option would be to push back the start of

the season another month. That notion hasn’t gained much traction from other coaches and administrators, though, as summer housing and food costs would have to be arranged.

The headaches of Thursday-to-Sunday trips are routine nowadays for Hartleb and Sullivan, but one facet of the travel still irks them. When it comes time for the NCAA tournament committees to select at-large postseason teams, teams from the cold-weather regions are often overlooked, and months of games played away from home go unrewarded.

“I think if you look at statistics in ath-letics, there’s always a home-fi eld advan-tage,” Hartleb said. “I think there are a lot of quality northern teams that don’t get the same looks as some of the south-ern schools get.”

Rating Percentage Index, a tool used across many collegiate sports to distin-

guish the best teams in the nation, is being weighted differently this year in baseball to refl ect the amount of away games some teams play. Hartleb doubts that it will be weighted enough to accurately portray the disadvantage of so much travel, but the revision is a start.

For track and fi eld’s upcoming season, Turk has structured some scheduling changes to stay within his meager budget. The team will compete in meets closer to home, and on one occasion he will divide his team, sending some runners to a meet in New York while others will participate in a meet at Notre Dame University.

“It’s an unavoidable hassle with no easy fi x and one that must be met headlong with spurts of creativity,” Turk said. “Some-times, it’s a struggle. The rigors of trav-el can get a little old and taxing on us. So we try to be thoughtful while we’re scheduling.”

Number of students receiving aid

Number of full-ride equivalences

Total dollar amount of fi nancial aid given

Baseball Men’s basketball Women’s bastketball Football Men’s golf Women’s golf Men’s gymnastics Women’s gymnastics

Revenues $587,144 $15,507,768 $810,303 $28,353,822 $428,551 $271,642 $390,746 $620,345

Expenses $1,121,514 $6,223,196 $2,482,579 $14,146,821 $624,882 $448,470 $621,739 $941,643

Total -$534,370 $9,284,572 -$1,672,276 $14,207,001 -$196,331 -$176,828 -$230,993 -$321,298

Soccer Softball Swimming Men’s tennis Women’s tennisMen’s track and cross-country

Women’s track and cross-country Volleyball Wrestling

Revenues $637,466 $572,791 $593,863 $315,903 $406,968 $573,174 $919,700 $979,180 $608,222

Expenses $957,903 $1,010,431 $930,455 $632,880 $631,267 $895,043 $1,291,581 $1,331,587 $920,073

Total -$320,437 -$437,640 -$336,592 -$316,977 -$224,299 -$321,869 -$371,881 -$352,407 -$311,851

INFOGRAPHIC BY DANNY WEILANDT THE DAILY ILLINISOURCE: 2011 NCAA EADA FOR ILLINOIS

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MONETARY RESTRICTIONS HINDER MANY ILLINOIS SPORTSMen’s track and fi eld faces scheduling diffi culties based on travel expenses

Men’s basketball, football the only profi table sports at Illinois

$460,914$550,604 $330,560$465,760 $765,223$475,180 $507,857 $353,265$216,475

WOMEN’S TENNISSOFTBALL MEN’S TENNIS MEN’S TRACK AND CROSS-COUNTRY VOLLEYBALLSOCCER WOMEN’S TRACK AND

CROSS-COUNTRY WRESTLINGSWIMMING

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MEN’S BASKETBALL 6-12 IN BIG TEN

MEN’S GYMNASTICS FINISHED 1ST IN BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIPS, WON NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

WOMEN’S TENNIS FINISHED 3RD IN BIG TEN TOURNAMENT

FOOTBALL 2-6 IN BIG TEN

SOFTBALL 10-14

WOMEN’S GOLF FINISHED 5TH IN BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIPS

MEN’S TENNIS FINISHED 1ST IN BIG TEN TOURNAMENT

BASEBALL 11-13 IN BIG TEN PLAY

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL 5-11

WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS FINISHED 5TH IN BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIPS

MEN’S TRACK AND CROSS-COUNTRY TRACK FINISHED 6TH AT INDOOR, 8TH AT OUTDOOR

VOLLEYBALL 16-4 IN BIG TEN, NCAA RUNNER-UP

SOCCER 8-2-1 IN BIG TEN, WON BIG TEN TOURNAMENT

WOMEN’S TRACK AND CROSS-COUNTRY TRACK FINISHED 4TH AT INDOOR, 2ND AT OUTDOOR

WRESTLING 6-2 CONFERENCE, FINISHED 4TH AT BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIPS

MEN’S GOLF FINISHED 1ST IN BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIPS

SWIMMING FINISHED 10TH IN BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIPS

Just because a team is winning doesn’t mean it’s

profitable. Football and men’s basketball were the only sports that made money last year, but both had disappointing seasons.

guish the best teams in the nation, is being weighted differently this year in baseball to refl ect the amount of away games some teams play. Hartleb doubts that it will be weighted enough to accurately portray the disadvantage of so much travel, but the revision is a start.

For track and fi eld’s upcoming season, Turk has structured some scheduling changes to stay within his meager budget. The team will compete in meets closer to home, and on one occasion he will divide his team, sending some runners to a meet in New York while others will participate in a meet at Notre Dame University.

“It’s an unavoidable hassle with no easy fi x and one that must be met headlong with spurts of creativity,” Turk said. “Some-times, it’s a struggle. The rigors of trav-el can get a little old and taxing on us. So we try to be thoughtful while we’re scheduling.”

Baseball Men’s basketball Women’s bastketball Football Men’s golf Women’s golf Men’s gymnastics Women’s gymnastics

Revenues $587,144 $15,507,768 $810,303 $28,353,822 $428,551 $271,642 $390,746 $620,345

Expenses $1,121,514 $6,223,196 $2,482,579 $14,146,821 $624,882 $448,470 $621,739 $941,643

Total -$534,370 $9,284,572 -$1,672,276 $14,207,001 -$196,331 -$176,828 -$230,993 -$321,298

Soccer Softball Swimming Men’s tennis Women’s tennisMen’s track and cross-country

Women’s track and cross-country Volleyball Wrestling

Revenues $637,466 $572,791 $593,863 $315,903 $406,968 $573,174 $919,700 $979,180 $608,222

Expenses $957,903 $1,010,431 $930,455 $632,880 $631,267 $895,043 $1,291,581 $1,331,587 $920,073

Total -$320,437 -$437,640 -$336,592 -$316,977 -$224,299 -$321,869 -$371,881 -$352,407 -$311,851

1 Football — The Illini lost six straight games after starting the season 6-0. Ron Zook was fi red as head coach at the end of the season, fi nishing his time at Illinois with a 34-51 record and just two winning seasons in seven years.

2 Men’s basketball — Illinois missed the NCAA tournament after fi nishing the season 17-15. Bruce Weber, who was fi red at the end of the season, was never able to relive the magic of the Illini’s 2004-05 tournament run in his nine years at the helm.

3 Women’s basketball — Jolette Law was fi red after the Illini fi nished the 2011-12 season 11-19 overall. Illinois had marginal Big Ten Tournament success under Law, but could never sustain success consistently throughout her fi ve seasons.

4 Men’s gymnastics — Coach of the Year Justin Spring and the Illini won their fourth straight Big Ten Championship and the program’s 10th NCAA Championship.

5 Men’s golf — Illinois won the Big Ten Championship for the fourth consecutive season. Luke Guthrie won his second consecutive, individual metal, while Thomas Pieters won the NCAA individual title.

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INFOGRAPHIC BY DANNY WEILANDT THE DAILY ILLINI

Below are the salaries for the 19 varsity team coaches, plus cheerleading. All the numbers reflect this year’s Grey Book salaries.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALLFOOTBALL MEN’S BASKETBALL

BASEBALL

$102,500DAN HARTLEB

$100,000 as of last year7th season

SOCCER

$102,820JANET RAYFIELD

$97,000 as of last year10th in season

MEN’S TRACK

$79,040MIKE TURK


MEN’S TENNIS

$97,850BRAD DANCER$95,000 as of last year

8th season

$1,600,000TIM BECKMAN

1st season

WRESTLING

$110,000JAMES HEFFERNAN


MEN’S GYMNASTICS

$80,000JUSTIN SPRING$70,000 as of last year

4th season

WOMEN’S TRACK

$82,680TONJA BUFORD-BAILEY


$1,400,000JOHN GROCE

1st season

$330,000MATT BOLLANT

1st season

MEN’S GOLF

$140,000MIKE SMALL


MEN’S CROSS-COUNTRY

$55,000JAKE STEWART

1st season

SOFTBALL

$107,630TERRI SULLIVAN$105,000 as of last year

13th season

VOLLEYBALL

$145,000KEVIN HAMBLY$120,000 as of last year

4th season

WOMEN’S TENNIS

$86,000MICHELLE DASSO


SWIMMING AND DIVING

$76,875SUSAN NOVITSKY


WOMEN’S GOLF

$70,720RENEE SLONE


WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS

$76,880KIM LANDRUS$75,000 as of last year

2nd season

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CHEERLEADINGWOMEN’S CROSS-COUNTRY

$44,990JEREMY RASMUSSEN


$20,980STEPHANIE RECORD



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WERE BUYOUTS WORTH IT? BY CHAD THORNBURGSTAFF WRITER

Bruce Weber is patrolling the sidelines at Kansas State. Ron Zook is working a broad-cast booth for CBS. Jolette Law is assisting the Tennessee Lady Vols in the transition to the post-Pat Summit era.

But all three former Illini head coaches are still on Illinois’ payroll.

When Weber, Zook and Law were fired at the end of their respective 2011-12 seasons, they were owed a combined $7.1 million.

In his first year on the job, athletic director Mike Thomas took aim at the underachiev-ing football and men’s and women’s basket-ball programs and terminated three of the University’s highest-paid coaches. Zook was fired last December with two years and $2.6 million remaining on his contract. And soon after, Law and Weber were released at the conclusion of their respective basketball seasons. Law departed Champaign with two years and $620,000 left on her contract, and Weber left his orange ties behind with three years and $3.9 million remaining on his.

The Illinois Division of Intercollegiate Athletics is not shelling out the entirety of the buyouts this year but must pay out the money through the life of the contracts. The buyouts are paid for with DIA funds, which are separate from the University’s state funds.

The buyouts factor into each sport’s bud-get over the remaining years of the con-tracts and will be treated as staff salaries, tacked on in addition to the salaries of the new coaches and their staffs.

Thomas hired Toledo’s Tim Beckman as Zook’s replacement for reportedly $9 mil-lion over five years. Ohio’s John Groce was brought in to lead the men’s basketball pro-gram at a reported $1.4 million per year over five years, and Green Bay’s Matt Bollant took the helm for women’s basketball with a base salary of $330,000 for six years, not includ-ing bonus incentives.

Thomas said in an interview with The Dai-ly Illini last spring that if a coaching change can turn a mediocre program into a success-ful one, the potential profits could far out-weigh the money owed to fired head coaches in the long run.

“I think people in this community who support these program have shown that if

you have a winning product, they’re going to come support you,” Thomas said. “One time, Assembly Hall was full on a consistent basis and Memorial Stadium was full very often. And it wasn’t that long ago where we had pretty good crowds for women’s basketball.”

Attendance numbers have dropped across all three of those programs over the last few years. The average attendance at Memorial Stadium has plummeted each year since the 2007 Rose Bowl season, falling from 61,707 in 2008 to 59,544 in 2009, 54,188 in 2010 and 49,548 in 2011; however, Tim Beckman’s Illi-ni aren’t faring any better in that department with an average of 46,013 through this sea-son’s first five home games.

For men’s basketball, Assembly Hall sold out for three years straight from 2005-08 at 16,618 fans per game; but more recently, average attendance has dipped to 15,499 in 2008-09, 14,870 in 2009-10, 15,851 in 2010-11 and average women’s basketball attendance dipped to an 18-year low of 1,070 per game during the 2011-12 season. The program attracted an average of 7,407 in 1998-99 but has not reached that number since. It has declined steadily each year since, attract-ing an average of 1,874 in 2008-09.

Football and men’s basketball are Illinois’ only profitable sports, whereas the remain-ing 17 NCAA all lose money with women’s basketball leading the way in 2011 at a loss of $1.6 million. Football brought in a profit of $14.2 million in 2011, and men’s basket-ball earned the DIA $9.3 million during the same time span.

“That’s pretty consistent for most football-playing schools,” Thomas said. “I think it’s how it evolved and that’s where we are today. I think we’d all like a situation where every program’s revenues were exceeding expens-es, but at least today, that’s not realistic.”

Thomas’ hope is that by shifting the direc-tion of three of Illinois major athletic pro-grams with a coaching change, the teams will find success in the near future and over the long run, particularly in football and men’s basketball, where the revenues sup-port most of the Illinois athletic department.

“It’s proven that if you win here, people will get behind your program,” he said.

Chad can be reached at [email protected] and @cthornburg10.

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Former Illinois’ men’s basketball head coach Bruce Weber addresses the media following the NCAA Big Ten Tournament loss to Iowa at the Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis on March 9. This press conference turned out to be Weber’s last as Illinois’ head coach.


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Direct Facilities Maintenance and Rental$20,118,624It costs a lot to maintain the University’s athletic facilities. This makes up more than 27 percent percent of the DIA’s total expenses.

Team Travel$4,627,605

Recruiting $1,344,243

Medical expenses$599,459

Athletic Student Aid $9,847,571

Game Expenses$2,848,119Putting on a game requires a number of special staff, like game officials, security, and even ambulances. It all costs money.

Support staff$11,833,220Although individual coaches make more money than many others in the University system, the support staff, which includes administrators and trainers, make more money as a whole.

Coaching Salaries$10,259,368

Other $5,288,432This includes member-ship and dues for conferences, the University’s spirit groups and severance payments paid to coaches.

Sports Camps $966,524

Guarantees $1,399,589This includes money paid to visiting teams.

Equipment, uniforms and supplies$1,524,095

Fundraising, marketing and promotion$2,819,969

WHERE DOES THE MONEY GO?

NATHANIEL LASH AND BRYAN LORENZ THE DAILY ILLINI

When you pay for your ticket to an Illini sporting event, your money enters a fund that joins the revenue of the Division of Intercollegiate Athletics . As it so happens, ticket sales contribute only about a fifth of the total revenues for the depart-ment, but all of that money is put to work. If each ticket in Memorial Stadium were to cost the same, here’s how the University would spend the money, proporionally balanced by section of the stadium that can seat 60,670 people.

This is based on data that the University reported to the NCAA on Jan. 23, 2012, reflecting the year 2011. It does not reflect the budget in the ensuing months.

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Come to the Illinois Ice Arena, or the “Big Pond,” as it is called, on a weekend and you will see the loyal fans of the Harassing Illini and a packed house to cheer on Illinois hockey. One would expect from seeing the spectacle that the team is quite successful.

On the ice, the statement holds true, as the Illini own two of the last seven ACHA National Championships. But off the ice, the club struggles financially, barely mak-ing ends meet each month.

The Illinois hockey team is not an NCAA team. In fact, it has no affiliation with the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics at all and therefore receives no financial aid from millions the department made last year.

“It is frustrating,” said junior center and captain Austin Bostock. Because the team is a club sport, it operates like an RSO; Bostock was elected treasurer of the team. “It’s frustrating when we win the national championship in 2005, go undefeated and win the national championship in 2008, and the school still doesn’t see it appro-priate to take steps in a new direction for Illini hockey.”

The new direction Bostock references is the creation of the Big Ten hockey con-ference at the start of the 2013-14 season, which includes Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Ohio State, Penn State and Wis-consin. Penn State, a club sport just last year, made the jump that the Illini covet, taking a $102 million donation from Ter-ry and Kim Pegula to make the Division I ranks.

For that to happen at Illinois, the Big Pond would have to be replaced with a reg-ulation-size rink, not to mention the fund-ing for equipment, scholarships, travel and other expenses that the club takes care of right now.

So sending Illinois to Division I — and the pretty penny it would cost — isn’t at the top of the list of priorities for alumni and the DIA, especially for a sport that just barely gets by as it is.

On the other hand, becoming a varsity sport would help bring in a lot more rev-enue than the sport generates now. There would be money from the Big Ten Network for televised games as well as the potential

for greater interest from fans.“If Illinois was a Big Ten hockey school,

there would be no reason why it wouldn’t just take off,” Bostock said.

Currently, players pay $800 per semes-ter in fees to participate in hockey in addi-tion to paying for their own meals while traveling and the majority of their equip-ment, though the club tries to bear some of the costs.

“I had to write a check for $10,000 for equipment because we had so many new guys,” Bostock said. “We’re not going to make guys who already pay $800 a semes-ter buy another $2,000 in equipment. We try to make things like that work.”

The team pays $1,600 a year in mem-bership fees to the ACHA, as well as fees for individual tournaments. For the ACHA Showcase, where Illinois had its best show-ing of the year, the team had to shell out $550. Bostock said the entire road trip to Indiana on Dec. 7-8 will cost the team around $2,000, which is generally how much they make on an average weekend for home games, which number 24 for the 2012-13 season.

There is an alternative, however, to put-ting together millions they would need to go to Division I. The DIA could follow the example of many of the Illini’s peers in the ACHA. Although the likes of Robert Mor-ris University and formerly Penn State are just club teams, they are funded by their schools.

“There are teams we play in the ACHA, not even winning teams, that don’t pay a dime to play,” Bostock said.

For players like freshman forward John Olen, the opportunity to play Division I hockey once existed. During his high school hockey career, Olen received a scholarship offer to play for Ferris State, an offer he held out on pending additional offers.

“The academics at Ferris State weren’t there,” Olen said. “At the time, I figured I’d be getting more and more offers because I was still only 16, so I didn’t pursue that because the academics weren’t there and the campus didn’t really wow me either.”

As Olen’s high school career came to an end, the only offers left were from Divi-sion III programs, which didn’t offer scholarships.

Olen instead decided to take the jump

into junior hockey, hoping to draw attention from another Division I program. Junior hockey is the next level of development for hockey players under 20. Taking two years off from school, Olen finished his junior hockey career with the Janesville Jets of the North American Hockey League. His next destination was Illinois, where he is among one of the team’s leaders in points as a 20-year-old freshman.

Although he would pass up the offer from Ferris State if he had to again, Olen said he still thinks he should at least see some benefits for the amount of work he puts into his craft.

“It kind of stinks,” he said. “It would be nice if clubs sports could get money toward tuition or scholarships. I knew that I wouldn’t be getting anything going in to col-lege and it kind of sucks, but it is what it is.”

“There are teams we play in the ACHA, not even winning teams, that don’t pay a dime to play.”AUSTIN BOSTOCK,TREASURER OF THE HOCKEY TEAM

CHONG JIANG THE DAILY ILLINI

Illini hockey fans cheer at a 2010 Illinois hockey game at the Illinois Ice Arena. Despite recent success on the ice, including a 2008 national championship, Illinois receives no assistance from Illinois’ athletic department.

HOCKEY LACKS D-I FUNDS


MICHIGAN STATE

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OHIO STATE

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WISCONSINNEBRASKAPURDUE

ILLINOIS

NORTHWESTERN

$520,000LOU ANNA SIMONTerm began: 2005

$585,783*MARY SUE COLEMANTerm began: 2002*Numbers current as of January 2012.

$515,000RODNEY ERICKSONTerm began: 2011

$483,600SALLY K. MASONTerm began: 2007

$544,848MICHAEL MCROBBIETerm began: 2007

$834,530E. GORDON GEETerm began: 2007

$610,000ERIC KALERTerm began: 2011

$414,593KEVIN P. REILLYTerm began: 2004

$411,370JAMES B. MILLIKENTerm began: 2004

NOT AVAILABLEMITCHELL DANIELSTerm begins: 2013*Will begin his term January 2013

$450,000ROBERT EASTERTerm began: 2012Easter took over as president in July 2012 after former President Michael Hogan resigned in March. Easter was the interim chancellor, earning $355,000 annually, until Chancellor Phyllis Wise was chosen in 2011. Hogan’s salary as president was $650,000 in 2011.

$738,131MORTON SCHAPIROTerm began: 2009

The following is a comparison of current base salaries of presidents in the Big Ten. Some of these presidents may receive

further compensation or bonuses not listed.

BIG TEN PRESIDENTS


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MICHIGAN PENN STATEIOWAINDIANA

OHIO STATE

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$361,899KIM WILCOXPosition name: VP for academic affairs and provostTerm began: 2005

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$375,000BARRY BUTLERPosition name: executive VP and provostTerm began: 2011

$376,637LAUREN ROBELPosition name: executive VP and provostTerm began: 2012

$554,559JOSEPH ALUTTOPosition name: executive VP and provost Term began: 2007

$399,750KAREN HANSONPosition name: senior VP for academic affairs and provostTerm began: 2012

$437,000DAVID WARDPosition name: chancellor (interim) Term began: 2011

$341,053HARVEY PERLMANPosition name: chancellorTerm began: 2011 (interm during 200-2001 academic year)

$348,680TIM SANDSPosition name: executive VP for academic affairs and provost Term began: 2010*Currently active-president until

$512,500PHYLLIS WISEPosition name: VP executive of academic affairs and chancellorTerm began: 2011

$439,803DANIEL LINZERPosition name: provostTerm began: 2007

The following is a comparison of current base salaries of the top administrators in

the Big Ten Conference. Some administrators may receive further compensation or bonuses not listed.

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