What is your schools Sports budget?

[BisonBacker]

Just curious seeing as there is such a wide variety of teams/schools that play a variety of sports. I have two questions.

1. What is your schools overall sports budget?
2. What is the football only budget if you have it?

Cite your sources also if you have them. Be interesting to see what each school spends on their programs. I suppose there is some site on the net somewhere but I didn't look, just more interesting to read the fans comments.

Thanks.

[danefan]

http://ope.ed.gov/athletics/search.asp

Is the gov't site and I think the data is from 2006.


UAlbany 2006 expenses:

Football: $877,574 (interestingly enough last year the football team had revenue of $830,225, but I'm not sure if that is actual or some fancy accounting)

All Sports: $10,398,616 (in 2000 our athletic budget was only $3.4million. It keeps going up too. Our AD has stated that he expects it to be near $25million in a few years once full scholly football and other athletic upgrades kick in).

Stony Brook:

Football: $1,225,656
All sports: $18,883,444

[Green Cookie Monster]

Sac State: 20 varsity fully funded programs

$11.9M overall budget
$1.7M football budget

You can also use this site: http://www2.indystar.com/NCAA_financial_reports/

NDSU: $8.7M overall
$2.1M football budget

[Retro]

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1 Billion Dollars !!

[Punchykky]

How would we go about finding this information out?

[danefan]

http://ope.ed.gov/athletics/search.asp (http://ope.ed.gov/athletics/search.asp)
I think it has the most recent reported costs (2006).

[Punchykky]

Sac State: 20 varsity fully funded programs

$11.9M overall budget
$1.7M football budget

You can also use this site: http://www2.indystar.com/NCAA_financial_reports/

NDSU: $8.7M overall
$2.1M football budget

According to the website you posted, Norfolk State's total budget is $7,327,138 and the football budget is $1,780,406. Not a lot of money.:( xsmhx

[th0m]

Overall budget:
$21,555,198 (about 17.8M of which comes from student fees)

Football:
$2,913,120

[DOME]

Hrm...UNI actually came out ahead $10,000...even after droping $1.9m on football

Iowa State spends over $7m on their football program and we beat them...

[TheBisonator]

NDSU's athletic budget for 2007 is $10.9 million and the football budget is $2.8 million.

[HIU 93]

Not enough. We're doing amazing things with little money spent.

Total men's recruiting expenses (all sports)- $98K.

[DUPFLFan]

Drake for 2006 (from the Op.Ed web site)

Total budget $10,051,951 (not sure where this all goes..)
Football $554,791 (it sure ain't scholarships..)

[USDFAN_55]

San Diego:

Total budget: $1,499,645
Football: $216,959

I can't see how that is right. If it is, that is amazing that we can have nationally ranked teams year in and year out.

[danefan]

San Diego:

Total budget: $1,499,645
Football: $216,959

I can't see how that is right. If it is, that is amazing that we can have nationally ranked teams year in and year out.


I got this for San Diego:

Football:$1,363,883
Total: $13,196,064


Which by the way is a very large budget for a non-scholly team. But it may be because of the travel costs you guys incur.

Could also be because your "Annual Institutional Salary per Head Coach" is $111,633. That means your football and basketball coaches are making substantially more than that.

[BearsCountry]

Athletic Budget - $12,072,542
Football - $2,266,558

Apparently we made money as well - $12,422,186

[ccd494]

UMaine spent:

$14,227,253

UMaine brought in:

$14,338,955

for a net profit on athletics.

Football spent $2,621,578 and brought in $2,594,176. So almost broke even.

Where does the profit come from?

Over $1 million in revenue in "non-basketball and non-football men's sports." So, when you factor in all the money losing programs there, the hockey team brought in well over that $1 million profit.

[Franks Tanks]

NDSU's athletic budget for 2007 is $10.9 million and the football budget is $2.8 million.

The information states that Lafayette spent 3.1 million on football. I dont think we are quite getting the ROI that NDSU is.

[danefan]

Remember this are reported numbers by the university. Doesn't mean they are actual numbers and plus isn't it possible for the athletic dep't to show a gain but the university as a whole actually lose money from athletics.

Ie: If the athletic dep't spends $10mm, makes $1mm in actual revenue (from ticket sales, Montana buy-outs, etc.) and gets reimbursed $10mm from the general university fund, wouldn't the athletic dept show a net revenue of $1mm?

I think that's how this funny accounting works, but I'm not sure.

[USDFAN_55]

I got this for San Diego:

Football:$1,363,883
Total: $13,196,064


Which by the way is a very large budget for a non-scholly team. But it may be because of the travel costs you guys incur.

Could also be because your "Annual Institutional Salary per Head Coach" is $111,633. That means your football and basketball coaches are making substantially more than that.

OK. I was looking at the operating costs. But it looks like the revenue is $1,363,883, and the expenses are $912,746. I guess that means the Athletic program makes money off of the football team.

[Franks Tanks]

OK. I was looking at the operating costs. But it looks like the revenue is $1,363,883, and the expenses are $912,746. I guess that means the Athletic program makes money off of the football team.

See above post by Dane Fan--its probably some fuzzy accounting

[Go...gate]

I don't know the total overall, but I think Colgate spent $3.4M on football and $1.2M on Men's Basketball. The amount spent on Men's BB is among the lowest in all of Division I. I assume that Women's BB is comparably low. I remember Bob Cornell, Colgate's SID, saying to a group of Alumni that Colgate athletics had "champagne tastes but a beer budget". Sounds about right.

[TexasTerror]

SHSU
Football - $1,467,995
Overall Budget - $6,297,032

[Hammersmith]

If you're grabbing the numbers from the ope website, they're from the 2005 football season(FY06). If you hold off this discussion for two weeks(Oct 15), the numbers will be updated to last year's.

[igo4uni]

Iowa State spends over $7m on their football program and we beat them...


I love it!!!

[appfan2008]

I love it!!!

ours was even a bigger difference than that with michigan

[grizband]

Montana

According to: http://ope.ed.gov/athletics/InstDetail.asp?CRITERIA=3

Football revenue: $5,178,226
Football expenses: $4,094,482

Total revenue: $13,928,287
Total expenses: $12,774,473

According to: http://www2.indystar.com/NCAA_financial_reports/revenue_stat/show
Football revenue: $5,952,325
Football expenses: $4,179,856

Total revenue: $15,340,537
Total expenses: $12,687,158

[ucdtim17]

That's amazing Montana spends over a third of their budget on football while we spend 1/30th. We've got our priorities mixed up

[poly51]

Cal Poly

Total Operating Football $1,828,738 All Sports $11,418,668

For Comparison

Fresno State

Total Operating Football $6,307,379 Total $25,350,352

UCLA

Total Operating Football $13,219,941 Total $46,010,599

[Go Poly]

Cal Poly

Total Operating Football $1,828,738 All Sports $11,418,668

For Comparison

Fresno State

Total Operating Football $6,307,379 Total $25,350,352

UCLA

Total Operating Football $13,219,941 Total $46,010,599

It would be interesting to know what is the football revenue compared to all other sports to gain understanding on the return on investment?

[patssle]

That's amazing Montana spends over a third of their budget on football while we spend 1/30th. We've got our priorities mixed up

Well they do have to spend money on all those contract buyouts and payouts for cupcakes to come to WaGriz xlolx xrotatehx :p

[Griz0383]

Fella's, bidness is bidness! Montana's AD spends $50,000 to buy out of a contract and schedules another home game (cup cake), which pulls in $450,000 per game. I wasn't a bidness major but I can balance a check book and Montana needed to balance that check book if ya catch my drift! In the future, I believe the schedules will be more interesting so the rest of the FCS nation can find another Griz flaw to focus on!

[BisonBacker]

Lets please keep this on track with the Budgets of schools and not the bashing of the griz, there are enough threads on that already. I've found this thread really interesting.

[Quann]

UMass

Football - $3,318,205

Overall - $19,959,263