RE: PAC expanding revenue deficit vs Big Ten and SEC
On one hand, the point seems obvious.
But on the other hand, I just don't see how this makes it impossible for a USC or Oregon to win the national championship, simply because the PAC is giving its schools $12-15M less per year than the Big Ten and SEC do.
How much does it actually cost, in an operating budget sense, to run a CFP national champion football program???
Head coach pay is like $7-10M per year?
All other staff (coaches, assistant positions, admin, etc) another $10M per year?
Scholarships (including FOIA) maybe $3-5M?
Recruiting budget?
Travel budget?
Equipment, supplies, etc?
Yeah, USC and Oregon are only getting $30M per year while Ohio St, Michigan, Penn St, Alabama, Auburn, Florida are getting $45M per year. That's not nothing.
But I just can't see how the USC and Oregon boards are going to say "sorry guys, we can't get you that extra $5M you would need to put you over the top to win the national championship". That's peanuts compared to what they already spend on just football, let alone the athletic dept, what football brings in, and especially peanuts compared to the university budget.
Just looking at conference distributions is way too limited of a viewpoint, IMO, if you're going to ignore: a) total revenue streams into an athletic dept (including donations), and b) the fact that the school itself can just i) insert money from the general fund into the athletic dept and/or ii) ask the students to pay more in fees.
(This post was last modified: 02-07-2017 05:49 PM by MplsBison.)
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