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Athletic Budgets
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Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:20 pmby Duke Blue Blood
I know there was a thread earlier about athletic budgets. While we can always use, more...take out the BCS schools and we are second...behind who? Well, our purple friends to the West.
http://www.midmajority.com/info.php?a=schools-budget
There are quite a few schools you would not expect behind us.
DBB
Posted:
Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:20 amby BrianTinBigD
We are number 1 by over $6Mil in CUSA and Number 2 outside the BCS behind only the Horny Toads.
Posted:
Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:47 amby perunapower
If they would turn off the lights at Ford instead of leaving them on all the time, we might be able to cut that in half.
Posted:
Wed Aug 15, 2007 1:28 pmby M Street Stang
Let's clarify this before anyone gets too excited. These are ranked by expenses, not revenue and not gross profit. I can promise you if you looked at the other side of the ledger we would not be ahead of schools like Iowa State. Just the Big 12 bowl revenue sharing alone would vault ISU way ahead of us.
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Wed Aug 15, 2007 1:34 pmby Cadillac
M Street Stang wrote:Let's clarify this before anyone gets too excited. These are ranked by expenses, not revenue and not gross profit. I can promise you if you looked at the other side of the ledger we would not be ahead of schools like Iowa State. Just the Big 12 bowl revenue sharing alone would vault ISU way ahead of us.
I thought the point in showing this was to show that SMU was spending money on their athletic program, not that they were making money on it.
-CoS
Posted:
Wed Aug 15, 2007 2:05 pmby Duke Blue Blood
Exactly the point. Moneyis being spent. End of Story.
Posted:
Wed Aug 15, 2007 2:31 pmby Stallion
That is the point-money ain't the problem SMU can't excell in the lower echelons of Division 1A. Never has been as I've pointed out. The Model not money is why SMU hasn't gone bowling, been the Tournament or won championships at least in the WAC Lite and CUSA.
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Wed Aug 15, 2007 3:40 pmby M Street Stang
It's really hard to establish much from just a topline expense number. Does a capital expenditure for $13m towards the basketball facility count in our $32m figure? I believe Stallion posted several months ago the athletic budgets for DI schools and our budget was in the $17m range. I know we borrow from the university annually to cover the athletic deficit, but I find it hard to believe we are running a $15m gap year in and year out.