Comments on: Cost Containment in College Athletics http://blog.rodwalters.com/?p=1 Consultants in Sports Medicine Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:56:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ross Bailey http://blog.rodwalters.com/?p=1&cpage=1#comment-4 Ross Bailey Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:26:29 +0000 http://h180784wp.setupmyblog.com/?p=1#comment-4 Rod - I could not agree more with you on the cost containment issues. We have seen a virtual elimination of the "off season" for sports at the D 1 level. This requires not only more supplies and man hours, but further increases the number of "exposures" for our student athletes to get injured and potentially require surgeries. The addition of freshman to the mix in the summer before classes begin in the sports of football and basketball might be good for academics, but they further add to the cost of operations. We must all work to create our own preferred provider groups and work to contain costs. The NCAA and the Board of Directors opened the door to extended medical coverage. We try to limit our coverage to athletically related injuries and illness only but even at that, the costs of insurance and out of pocket expenses would fund a lot of athletic teams. We should never cut coverage or care for the student athletes but I think we are seeing the trickle down effect of the total costs of intercollegiate athletics currently with sport and staff reductions at many institutions. Rod – I could not agree more with you on the cost containment issues. We have seen a virtual elimination of the “off season” for sports at the D 1 level. This requires not only more supplies and man hours, but further increases the number of “exposures” for our student athletes to get injured and potentially require surgeries. The addition of freshman to the mix in the summer before classes begin in the sports of football and basketball might be good for academics, but they further add to the cost of operations.

We must all work to create our own preferred provider groups and work to contain costs. The NCAA and the Board of Directors opened the door to extended medical coverage. We try to limit our coverage to athletically related injuries and illness only but even at that, the costs of insurance and out of pocket expenses would fund a lot of athletic teams. We should never cut coverage or care for the student athletes but I think we are seeing the trickle down effect of the total costs of intercollegiate athletics currently with sport and staff reductions at many institutions.

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