(04-12-2018 02:44 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  

(04-12-2018 01:31 PM)ken d Wrote:  

(04-11-2018 04:43 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  

(04-11-2018 03:59 PM)ken d Wrote:  What I would love to see is a list of schools that shows how much revenue they generate on their own, without being subsidized through higher tuition or student fees. The Equity in Athletics data is nice, but it is designed to keep schools from having to show how profitable or costly they really are. For most schools reporting, the revenue numbers are highly suspect, and the expenses are as well. It would be great if all athletic porograms had to account for costs and revenues the same way, and had to be transparent in reporting those fifures.

I would LOVE LOVE LOVE for there to be consistency in reporting.

There isn't even consistency in how you deal with student trainers in the budget. Per diem for travel is sometimes recorded as travel and sometimes reported as a student benefit.

If you are lucky schools in the same state will be consistent with each other but that's about as far as standardization goes.

Some of the reported data I came across in examing the financial condition of all D-I schools seemed so out of line as to be startling. UConn, for example, reported some $8 million a year revenue from women's basketball. While that sounded high, their ability to get TV coverage due to their dominance of their sport at least seemed plausible.

To get a comparison to see how plausible, I looked at Stanford's report. I was amazed that they report that they have 1,001 students participating in sports. But I was stunned to see that they report revenue from WBB at $21 million! How is that possible? For MBB they report about $7 million.

But stunned wasn't the word I would use to describe the most interesting part of UConn's report. I couldn't find them listed with the AAC schools, because they were shown as being in the Big East. I could only guess whether that's because whoever put the report together didn't know they had left the BE or because they have inside info that UConn is moving to the BE.

Hmmmm..what was the date on Uconns report saying BE?

There doesn't appear to be a specific date associated with these reports. They are updated annually. The specific report I cited did mention that the football expense figures for the current reporting period included some $4 million severance pay as a result of terminating their coach in January of 2017, so I'm assuming it's for the most recent year - that is, the Fiscal Year ending June 30, 2017.

https://ope.ed.gov/athletics/#/institution/details