steroid testing in HS

Please enlighten me, oh great genius asshole petty.
How am I or the athletes or their families or the schools paying for the testing?
Whis is Starman's "You" who is paying?

And what do you know about the financies of the NJSIAA? Oh that's rtght, nothing.

 

oh bitteroldman, try taking a basic fucking accounting class. your stupidity bores me.

 

Not to get in the middle of this, but spnited, if an athlete's parents go to a state playoff game to watch their kid, then part of the gate receipt generated from their ticket goes to pay for steroid testing.
So, in a sense, the parents are paying for the testing.

 

and who pays for the shit the state no longer is paying for since it doesn't have as much money? and if everybody starts UAing, how much higher are the dues going to rise? and who pays for that?

fuck, debits and credits. money taken away, must either be replaced or refinanced.

 

Prior to 2005, those tickets cost $12.
After the excesses of the NJSIAA were exposed, the State legislature forced prices down... to $10.
Starting with the 2006 playoffs, when ticket prices were lowered, steroid testing was instituted--by order of the Governor.
Whether there was testing or not, mom and pop would have paid that same $10...$2 less than the previous year.
If there were no testing, the NON-PROFIT organization known as the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association would have had more money in its reserve fund (to dole out to its execs in the form of exorbitant expense accounts, cars, lavish staff dinners and other perks).

So how is it that mom and pop, who are paying $2 less per ticket, are paying for the drug testing program?

 

All I am saying is this: It doesn't matter how much the tickets cost. In a sense, by paying for steroid testing out of gate receipts parents, as well as other fans, are paying for steroid testing.

 

"In a sense".... not in reality.
If they raised prices and/or dues to the schools to cover the cost of testing, then "you" are paying for it.
Right now, and for the foreseeable future, the NJSIAA is funding the testing itself out of revenues it already generates, without additional cost to parents, athletes, schools, fans, etc.

 

But how does the NJSIAA fund the things that the steroid money is now going to?

 

It's coming out of their surplus.
Plus they have cut expenses by A LOT after they were exposed 2 years ago.

 

Fair enough, I just think you can make a case that the public is paying for the testing to a degree because it is coming out of gate receipts.

 

but the money still is being spent on a new expenditure ... masses of it. and what happened with the surplus in the past? did it just sit there forever and ever never being tapped into? is the NJSIAA not an organization but really bill gates?

 

Yes, Tom, it largely just sat there. The so-called emergency fund was more than twice what it was legislated to be and the execs were still "skimming" lavish perks off the top.