(07-07-2017 03:06 PM)Crump1 Wrote:  

(07-07-2017 12:30 PM)MplsBison Wrote:  

(07-07-2017 12:18 PM)CougarRed Wrote:  And yet Houston spent a $128M on a football stadium that never shower up in the USAToday figures. Neither did the $65M in donations we raised from the alumni to help pay for it.

If Arky State or Oregon is counting capex projects in their USAToday survey responses, and Houston is not, then the numbers are not apples to apples.

Which is why using whole budgetary figures is never going to be helpful in a comparison discussion, because you can never force two schools and athletic departments to account of all types of line items in exactly the same way.

I like to use football coaching salaries (regardless if just head coach, or including staff) as a good proxy statistic to understand how much a university wants to financially support its program.

Bingo! What are you paying coaches and athletes, how nice are your facilities and what does your apparel deal look like? Those are tangible, real measurements of how you are doing. Spreadsheets are not a true measurement.

Not just apparel but what does an outside party like Learfield think of your program?

UNT and La.Tech get $500,000 from Learfield. AState gets $1.6 million a year.

When you have the largest rice producer in the world in your corner, the owner of the state's largest banking company (currently 117th in the nation should break top 100 with newest purchase), and your top fan and former governor is on the board of directors of the world's largest poultry producer, some good things come your way.