Every public institution operates in a similar way, charging “student fees” that gets routed to Athletics for such things as student section tickets to all athletic home events. And these fees are part of the annual budget every year that athletic departments know going into the year how much will be coming from this line item in the budget. Utah allocates expenses in the annual budget accordingly, knowing what they have forecasted to come in from a revenue perspective and is fiscally responsible to not exceed its annual expenses but to always conservatively fall short of its forecasted revenue. This is how Utah has built up its “rainy day fund” for the athletic department, which helped a lot when every athletic department in the country got slammed during the Covid year.
What Utah Athletics does NOT do is spend away all year long and then at the end of the year figure out what the gap is that needs to get covered and then goes to the University to tack on the corresponding amount of “student fees” needed to arrive at their desired number. It’s the other way around. The athletics department has always operated with an attention to being fiscally responsible and that’s something we can all be proud of. I know our jealous little brothers down South like to try and tell everyone otherwise, but they’ve always tried to make up their own facts to fit their narrative when it comes to all things U of U.
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