I'm just curious, they make more money than LSU, but still accept subsidies. LSU does not accept subsidies and for the second year in a row has had an 8 figure surplus.
As an answer to your question... Subsidies consist of several revenue streams. One would be tax payer money. Another falls in the line of student fees. UA still charges student fees. The athletic department is self-supporting in that it's not taking money from the academic side of the schools proceeds or using tax-payer funding for support. I'd have to look up the exact amount on the .edu side of the schools site (assuming it's listed there) but I do vaguely recall the numbers from the 2011 fiscal year. There was about a 250K increase from 2010 to 2011 which came from the increase in student enrollment of just under 1900 for the year. It balances out to around $80 per semester. (In 2011 it was roughly 5.2MM with a student body of around 30K+.)
BTW, since we're on revenue for a second here. One of the big complaints around Tuscaloosa is the needed renovation of the baseball facilities. With that in mind... Kristi Dosh (@sportsbizmiss) covers the business side of college sports for ESPN and founded her own site BusinessofCollegeSports.com During the CWS she was tweeting different facts about revenue, donations, etc., from baseball programs. One note she included one evening was the LSU program was getting around 1MM in donations each season from fans. If I'm not mistaken, it led the NCAA—and by a significant margin. I know the figure caught my eye due to all the complaints around UA. (IE: If fans are going to complain, put their money where their mouth is, ya know?) You might have to do a little web-research to find her figures and if this subject is of interest to you it would be well worth the time and effort. I found it quite interesting.
When LSU finishes the casino being built into the weight room, it will really impress the recruits. The cocktail waitresses will have the shortest skirts in town. But Texas A&M is getting kind of ridiculous. They have pulled up the expensive artificial turf from an entire practice field and planted it in grass so that the players dates will have a place to graze.
this is the waterfall Oregon has: Bustedcoverage.com: "Oregon has had its waterfall since at least 2007 when former QB Dennis Dixon took fans on a tour of the rehab facility. Soon, your college will have one, too. Can your school really recruit against programs that have waterfalls if they don’t have one? Impossible."
