Great Article on Division 1A Revenue

[Stallion]

TCU's Stadium revenue is probably 2-3 times higher than SMU with the entire stadium sold out except for student and visitor alottment. Stadiums are money-makers depending on revenue potential from seat and box licenses which is affected by the quality and number of availiable seating. One big advantage is that TCU's Stadium has twice the quality seats that people want to purchase. That's why Texas Stadium was obsolete 30 years after it was built. Ford may be nice but its money-making potential is far behind Amon Carter unless changes are made.

[ReedFrawg]

SMU is at 42.6 playing in a weak conference with second tier regional recognition. It also has minimal income from TV. That is why we are attractive to other conferences - we are at 42 with the potential of TCU's 68.

TCU will get another $8MM - $10MM bump over the next few years as we receive the full conf revenue share.

[CA Mustang]

Note that we are only slightly below Utah in revenues, and I assume, we would actually be greater if we had the PAC $ Utah does.

Utah is only getting a partial share of revenue from the Pac-12 its first couple of seasons. Once they become a full participant and the Pac-12 Network revenue blossoms, their figures should increase sharply.

Same could be said for SMU if they joined the PAC.

That applies to almost any school who joins a major conference.

The point is that Utah is higher WITHOUT receiving a full share of Pac-12 revenue and won't be comparable to SMU in 2-3 years. Unless of course SMU joins a similar conference.

[stc9]

A couple of things that really stood out in all of this.

1) I am really surprised that all of the MAC Schools had revenues that small. I know they are not the financial juggernauts of the Big 10, but figured they wouldn't slide in behind conference USA. That was surprising.

2) UNLV makes sense because they are the only game in town - no other basketball or football teams. I am sure that a ton of WAC and MWC fans travel to that game to spend a weekend in Vegas.

3) I am surprised that FSU is $40 mill behind Florida? This doesn't even take into account the $95 million that AD Foley turned over to the academic departments (nice problem, he raised an extra $95 mil he wasn't planning on).

4) TCU's defection from the MWC hurt them worse than I thought. What was their revenue before they made the leap? Does anyone remember?

The only way this madness is going to end is if congress gets involved. The NCAA is a paper tiger after the courts struck them down on TV rights. I really don't know how I feel about that.

[West Coast Johnny]

The report is for the 2011 - 2012 fiscal year. Does that mean TCU's big 12 revenues are included or is that next fiscal year?

[TWALV33]

I'm glad SMU committed to better athletics when we did. I can't imagine how hopeless I would feel if we still had Phil Bennett (aka bad football) and Matt Doherty (aka bad basketball). We wouldn't have a prayer. Love or hate JJ, he got us into contention, and hopefully LB can push us over the edge and actually somehow end up in one of the surviving conferences.....

but I guess we'll see

really interesting article though, surprised how we ranked compared to Ole Miss 42.6 vs 42.9. Wouldn't have guessed that....