http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/n...nances.htm

Just pick a year, and a school. Look at the MAC school TV revenues compared to any other conference. Why do we even bother? You could make up more than that in ticket sales from playing on just one more saturday instead of a tuesday.

(01-12-2010 03:14 PM)uakronkid Wrote:  http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/n...nances.htm

Just pick a year, and a school. Look at the MAC school TV revenues compared to any other conference. Why do we even bother? You could make up more than that in ticket sales from playing on just one more saturday instead of a tuesday.

17% of MArshall's revenue is from student fees?

Good stuff. The numbers are somewhat dated (2 seasons back but relavent in many ways)

Things I gathered from the database:

-Bowling Green and Miami both have about equal ticket revenue and much higher than Ohio and Kent State. I believe this is the result of having D1 hockey at BG and Miami.

-Marshall is spent $2.58 million on travel while Ohio spent $1.30 million. Both schools are in about the same location and neither spent money on postseason expenses. I then can conclude CUSA travel expenses are about 1.25 million more than MAC expenses.

-Ohio made 1.17 mil on NCAA/Conference distributions while Marshall made 2.46 million. This is enough to offset the additional travel costs in CUSA.

-Marshall made 985k on Television while Ohio made 88k. This is a clear revenue advantage for CUSA.

We have to charge student fee's because we get less funding percentage wise from the state than most schools in other states when comparing size, enrollment, etc. Plus, we just built a huge, new rec. center we have to pay for.

Look at UCF's student fee's, OUCH!

(01-14-2010 08:26 AM)SVHerd Wrote:  We have to charge student fee's because we get less funding percentage wise from the state than most schools in other states when comparing size, enrollment, etc. Plus, we just built a huge, new rec. center we have to pay for.

Look at UCF's student fee's, OUCH!

UCF has over 50k students. Even a trivial fee adds up when you have so many students.

Its hard for Kent to make any money when you charge less than $20 for tickets to the game. I paid more for the Harding-Massilion game high school football game a few years back then I did for the 50 yard line Kent tickets. Not to mention season tickets cost under 100 for football and barely over that for basketball. That and only having teams where you have to pay to get in hurts as well.