What is SMU Basketball worth?

[LA_Mustang]

Very interesting study in the WSJ assigning a value to the top college basketball programs in the country. According to the article: To calculate what a college team would be worth on the open market, if it could be bought and sold like a pro team, Brewer analyzed each major program’s revenues and expenses and made cash-flow adjustments, risk assessments and growth projections for each.

#73 SMU - $30,180,000

Other AAC/Texas:

#13 UConn - $111,852,000
#30 UT - $68,461,000
#35 USF - $53,938,000
#45 Memphis - $43,363,000
#54 Baylor - $38,156,000
#60 A&M - $34,958,000
#72 Cincinnati - $30,367,000
#77 Texas Tech - $29,533,000
#80 UCF - $28,523,000
#86 TCU - $24,272,000
#90 Temple - $20,327,000
#93 Tulsa - $18,268,000
#95 UH - $18,205,000

http://www.wsj.com/articles/whats-your- ... 1427903905

[East Coast Mustang]

USF is 35th? Huh?

[SMU Section F]

USF is 35th? Huh?

Most of the others seemed reasonable, but that got a raised eyebrow from me as well...

[smupony94]

They have to estimate publicly released info versus private such as SMU

[Pony Boss]

TCU is not worth 24 M. It is worth way less and so is USF and Texas Tech.

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

South Florida makes a decent amount of money on non-basketball events at the Sun Dome, but 35 still seems way too high.

[Digetydog]

USF is 35th? Huh?

Xavier : #20 - Aren't they the 2nd team in Cinci? Above UCLA??
Marquette: #28 above Texas?
Miami: they had nearly $4M<revenues than Florida. Miami is ahead of Florida?

[Dutch]

USF probably is calculated on student athletic fees generated that - i'm just speculating here w/o doing ANY research - are probably built into tuition. plus any public funding, advertising, alcohol sales, etc...

re: TCU/Tech - don't discount the FOX tv deal and the value of their being in the Big12.
good on the court/field doesn't always = market value (see: LA clippers, Marlins, etc.)

[Stallion]

also USF got payouts from the split of the Big East including NCAA BB credits-right? USF, Cincy, UCONN got more than other newer schools