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Nebraska Athletic Department Ceases Club Memberships For Administrators, Coaches

The Univ. of Nebraska athletic department has "dropped country clubs and health clubs as benefits for administrators, coaches and staffers, and cut back on the number of cars it provides," according to a front-page piece by Ruggles & Nohr of the OMAHA WORLD-HERALD. NU in '13 "awarded club memberships to 37 staffers ... and this year gave out none." NU Senior Associate AD & CFO John Jentz said that "doing away with club memberships and decreasing the number of cars make for a compensation system that is more clear and straightforward." He added that donors, vendors and others are "less likely to talk business these days on country club golf courses." Former NU Chancellor Harvey Perlman credited AD Shawn Eichorst with the change. Perlman: "It was clearly a Shawn initiative ... Shawn wanted to move to a more transparent system, so we got rid of most of that kind of stuff." Twenty-two administrators and staffers "have cars or car allowances" at the university, compared to 47 in '13. Nebraska football coach Mike Riley "doesn't have a car or a club membership." Meanwhile, Univ. of Nebraska-Omaha Vice Chancellor/Athletics Trev Alberts in a statement said that "maintaining those benefits is important to UNO." A UNO spokesperson said that club memberships help coaches "host events to support their teams and the athletic department, which generates private support for scholarships and other teams" (OMAHA WORLD-HERALD, 8/31). 

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