Other Schools...

[Ponyfan4ever]

I am not trying to be an instigator...but what other schools do you know that have a blog offering insight to their AD? Just curious...I havent seen that out there...

[mrydel]

First, yes you are an instigator by asking what you are asking. That is what an instigator is. Now, so far I find that Houston and UCF have blogs by their respective ADs and I guess I can go through all of CUSA and give you a full report but only if it is for extra credit. Many schools have blogs by different member of faculty, athletics, etc. ever since Gore invented the internet. This is a good thing but it is not a unique thing.

If you are really concerned about the griping on the board then you need to quit reading. You apparently were born 1985 or after and have no idea what many of us on this board have been through. We all back our team but promises, puppies, bells and whistle, though nice, can not be fully apprecaited until results are seen, and we are 20 years late with that.

[RGV Pony]

LSU season ticket holders get a once-weekly email from AD Skip Bertman, called the "cyber-side chat."

It sounds a lot like Orsini's blog, but more detailed. This week's was on athletic department finances. I've pasted it below...quite the contrast to our beloved Hilltop Athletics Dept, as BCS schools usually are...

This is a good time to remind you that, although LSU participated in a BCS bowl that pays $17.5 million, LSU does not keep that money. Payouts from bowl games that involve SEC teams are pooled and then distributed among all 12 league schools based on a formula that allows the participating bowl teams to keep a portion of its bowl payout for expenses.

Of the $10.2 million that LSU will receive from the SEC this summer, approximately $7.3 million is related to football and $2.9 is related to men’s basketball.

Multi-media rights account for $5.6 million, or nine percent, of LSU’s annual revenues. LSU has one of the nation’s most lucrative multi-media rights contracts, which include corporate sponsorships, radio and television advertising, gameday program advertising and sales, scoreboard advertising and other signage rights. Two years ago we consolidated all of our rights into one long-term agreement with CBS Collegiate Sports Properties (formerly Viacom) that gives LSU a minimum of $1.5 million more than we had generated off of those rights in any previous year.

Other fan services such as concessions, merchandising and logo licensing generate about $3.1 million annually for LSU. Concessions accounts for $1.3 million, merchandise sales account for $1.1 million and logo licensing generates about $700,000 each year. LSU Athletics shares its logo licensing revenues evenly with the University.

Parking and other revenues such as athletic facility rental, interest income and ticket convenience charges account for $4.2 million, or about seven percent of our revenues. We are fortunate to have a considerable number of parking spaces near our athletic venues, including motor home parking, which helps fund LSU Athletics.

The Tiger Athletic Foundation annually provides approximately $3.3 million in direct cash payments to LSU Athletics in addition to more than $3 million in annual benefits including coaches’ supplements, equipment and miscellaneous goods and services. The $3.3 million in direct cash payments account for about five percent of LSU’s annual revenues.

TAF also participates in the support of LSU Athletics in many other ways, especially in the responsibility for debt associated with the Cox Communications Academic Center for Student-Athletes, the east side addition and west side renovation of Tiger Stadium, Mike the Tiger’s habitat and the Football Operations Center. The TAF will also participate in a portion of the construction of the new Alex Box Stadium.

We also project to bring in about $2 million in revenues associated with post-season competition in all sports. As detailed in my report to you about expenditures, that money is in turn spent on participation in post-season competition by our teams.

I hope this gives you a better understanding of how the LSU Athletics program generates funds, and an understanding of our challenges for managing this growing budget.

[PK]

Just as a knee jerk reaction here...if SMU had that kind of income from the same sort of sources as LSU, I think I am safe in saying that our AD would be more than happy to share that information. Our current finacial statement would show nothing but red numbers which probably would not be considered something to brag about and I doubt a disclosure of such would really bring an outburst of renewed support from the faithful...most of us are already doing what we can.

[smupony]

First, yes you are an instigator by asking what you are asking. That is what an instigator is. Now, so far I find that Houston and UCF have blogs by their respective ADs and I guess I can go through all of CUSA and give you a full report but only if it is for extra credit. Many schools have blogs by different member of faculty, athletics, etc. ever since Gore invented the internet. This is a good thing but it is not a unique thing.

If you are really concerned about the griping on the board then you need to quit reading. You apparently were born 1985 or after and have no idea what many of us on this board have been through. We all back our team but promises, puppies, bells and whistle, though nice, can not be fully apprecaited until results are seen, and we are 20 years late with that.

And you make reading Ponyfans that much more enjoyable (sarcasm)...

[mrydel]

I think I have been insulted.

[MustangIcon]

I think I have been insulted.

A sign of true respect.

[abezontar]

I think I have been insulted.

No the only true insult you could receive would be if jtstang decided to sit in someone else's seats.

[mrydel]

I think I have been insulted.

No the only true insult you could receive would be if jtstang decided to sit in someone else's seats.

That could never happen.......unless of course Kiki were to show up.

[jtstang]

I like the donkey shows as much as the next guy, but there's only room for one jack@ss in mrydel's seats and that's me.

[mrydel]

I like the donkey shows as much as the next guy, but there's only room for one jack@ss in mrydel's seats and that's me.

I was only worried about your safety.