Contracts and Athletics

Requester: 
Cohen, Kevin
Organization: 
Winthrop Intelligence
Initial Request Date: 
08/09/2013
Status: 
Records Provided

a.    Current employment contract and salary for 13-14 academic year (Letter of intent, form agreement, or applicable document / record which shows annual compensation and start/end date of employment).  If an employee does not have a formal written agreement, please provide (ideally in a spreadsheet or table format): Name, Compensation, and Start/End Date (or write “At Will” if applicable).  I have attached an excel doc with each person’s name I am requesting, so you can just enter their 13-14 salary if there is no formal written agreement.b.    Most recent outside income form (ideally 12-13 fiscal year) for any employee if available (in cases where such a record exists per NCAA bylaw 11.2.2).c.    Most recent income (ideally 12-13 fiscal year) associated with Sports Camps for any employee, if available. 2.  Pursuant to applicable authority, I am writing to request a copy of any contract or written agreement in force (i.e., signed, fully executed) between the University’s Department of Athletics (or its affiliates) and third parties regarding all of the following categories of subject matter: 72 employeesa.    Apparel rights for athlete competition (through firms such as Nike, Adidas, Reebok, Under Armor, etc).  The current agreement I have previously received with Nike is set to expire in 2018.  If there is an updated contract or amendment, please send, otherwise no need to resend.b.    Concessions for all athletic facilities (through firms such as Aramark, etc).c.    Multi-media rights (through firms such as IMG, Learfield, Nelligan, etc).  d.    Pouring rights, sponsorship, ad and promotional rights (through firms such as Coke, Pepsi, etc).e.    Ticketing management (through firms such as Paciolan / Ticketmaster, etc). Current Ticketing contract I have expired.f.    Trademark licensing (through firms such as Collegiate Licensing Co.).3.  Pursuant to applicable authority, I am writing to request a copy of all season ticket and partial season ticket list prices (i.e., before discounting) advertised to the public for home football and men’s basketball [DM1] games for each of the seasons from 2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14. In addition, please include the priority points system or donor points system (namely, the method by which season ticket holders to home games of the football and men's basketball program are assigned their seat locations, and sometimes entitled to purchase season tickets for better seats to home games in those sports), as applicable for both sports in the foregoing seasons of each year requested.

Status Date: 
08/23/2013