Revenues generated by D1 teams

[cheebs09]

UK's high number could be their increased "recruiting budget" with Calipari. The Anthony Davis recruitment shows that  $200,000 number is pretty much right on.

[Dr. Blackheart]

My first thought was that in-state recruits lower tuition costs...assuming that the cost of the grant-in-aid is included.

But seeing schools like Kansas are only marginally more expensive, my guess is that it is an apples to organges thing.  For instance, MU has to rent the Bradley Center for home games.  I4 has its own areana.  But that doesn't address UK.

Hard to tell.

Yes that is confusing and I couldn't find any clarification on what is an "expense".  The game day expense column I took to be, in MU's case, the cost of the BC and other associated game costs like travel, promotions, etc. Still, others like Duke, Kentucky, MSU, Texas are much higher than MU and they own their arena.

Whatever the case, MU is elite on hoops spending...which has to be a great recruiting pitch...and a way to keep a coach. It also shows that the football schools use basketball as a cash cow to keep their status (either to cover football shortfalls or to support the extra women's sports needed for Title IX compliance).[/list]

[muhs03]

Only UK ($198,147) and Texas ($148,783) spend more per player than Marquette ($143, 792). Now you could argue that MU should have more elite results, but 6 straight years of NCAA money with a 7th likely seems to show the ROI is worth it. More-so:

• Dick Strong purportedly pays Buzz's salary and provides the use of chartered plane for recruiting

Isnt Dick Strong over 70 years old now? Yes, its great to have him so involved, but what happens when he's gone? Programs need more than just one wealthy guy... [/list]

[PaintTouches]

I made a little spreadsheet for our Paint Touches blog and think it applies well here. It turns out that Marquette is 4th in the country in "expenses per player" taking room and board, tuition, and books out of the equation. It totals out to $100,670.



http://painttouches.wordpress.com/

[avid1010]

Isnt Dick Strong over 70 years old now? Yes, its great to have him so involved, but what happens when he's gone? Programs need more than just one wealthy guy... [/list]

Yeah, MU will likely collapse upon his death. 

[muhs03]

Yeah, MU will likely collapse upon his death. 

That's what you took away from my comment? Wow. [/list]

[hoyasincebirth]

From what I understand these numbers are not close to being accurate.
The numbers reported by the Louisville Business Journal are those supplied by universities to the Department of Education under the Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act. They are available here: http://ope.ed.gov/athletics/, and they are complete nonsense.

It is quite clear from perusing different school's numbers that many are quite creative in their accounting. Expenditures equal revenues for most schools' teams, particularly in the non-revenue sports. (In other words, "revenue" is generally just the team's budget, with the funds being allocated to it by the university.) Some schools have large revenues in a catch-all "other" category.

Sometimes you can figure out what's going on. For example, Notre Dame's basketball "revenue" is exactly the amount the school receives from the Big East, which of course excludes all ticket sales and other game-day revenue. So clearly in Notre Dame's bizarro world, because the university owns the Joyce Center, revenues from basketball games accrue to some line-item outside the athletic department.

Nothing is arm's-length. The numbers obviously are thoroughly meaningless.