Interesting Read on Athletic Revenue for Div 1 Schools | TigerFan.com

DRC · May 9, 2005

The SEC top 4 are as follows:

Florida
Tenn
Bama
LSU

Nationally we rank 13th. Ohio St leads the country with a 103 Million! WAY more than anyone else.

Take a look at the womens numbers...OMG, they are so disproportionate its sickening. Most programs cost the school 10 times more than the revenue they produce.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/spor...?coll=orl-sports-headlines&ctrack=1&cset=true

mcmikel · May 9, 2005

Amazing how ULL breaks EVEN to the dollar and the Pond Scum are $9M to the good. Make room, Edwin, there some accountants heading your way...

cajdav1 · May 9, 2005

I really don't understand that report, especially the discrepency between total ncome and football income by many of the schools as I just don't see basketball bringing in as much money as the difference, but those are some incredible numbers. I'm sure some of it is booster clubs and endowments of some sort but Ohio St has a difference of about 57 million, where the heck does all that money come from?

mcmikel · May 9, 2005

cajdav1 said:

I really don't understand that report, especially the discrepency between total ncome and football income by many of the schools as I just don't see basketball bringing in as much money as the difference, but those are some incredible numbers. I'm sure some of it is booster clubs and endowments of some sort but Ohio St has a difference of about 57 million, where the heck does all that money come from?
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I know how ULL and the Scum pull it off.

ULL just makes up the shortfall from general revenue and suddenly, you and I are supporting Crawfish athletics.

Tulane employees, or their designee, get free tuition and an open admission. The athletic scholarships not full funded are assigned to a loyal employee with no family members attending school on Willow Street. So, the unused scholarship is now being used as a "funded" athletic scholarship. Legal, but sleazy. When the faculty tried to kill sports in the late-70's, this was the creative solution. Tulane has about 3,000 students going to school for free via the employee benefit.

locoguano · May 10, 2005

ULL's basketball and baseball operate at a profit.. that makes up for the football deficit..

BostonBengal · May 10, 2005

locoguano said:

ULL's basketball and baseball operate at a profit.. that makes up for the football deficit..
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Yeah, they've had some pretty good support for their baseball team over the last couple of years.

CParso · May 10, 2005

I don't feel like registering. Would somebody want to post the info about LSU?

CParso · May 10, 2005

Thanks to mcmikel for shooting me an e-mail with the info.

LSU:

Total Revenues: 53,983,888
Total Expenses: 47,427,254

Women's Revenue: 426,040
Women's Expenses: 6,979,135

Football Revenue: 38,381,625
Football Expenses: 15,349,550

WOW! Women's sports costs LSU over 6 mill a year!

Dutchtown tiger · May 10, 2005

We have one of the lowest net revenues for football in the league whereas Uga has the highest at 33 million.

CParso · May 10, 2005

Football Revenue for some other big schools:

Michigan: 38,547,937
Ohio St: 46,242,355
Oklahoma: 34,293,061
Texas: 47,556,281
Texas A&M: 31,103,827
Sthrn Cal: 26,244,364
Florida: 42,710,967

So were are up there with the big dogs as far as revenue.

However, as duchtown just mentioned, our expenses seem to be really, really high which drags down our net profit. In fact, only Ohio St (at 16,128,530), and Southern Cal (at 15,377,942) surpus our Football Expenses. WHY IS THIS???