(10-14-2019 11:52 AM)Zorch Wrote:  

(10-14-2019 09:26 AM)Rocco Wrote:  

(10-14-2019 09:20 AM)zablenoise Wrote:  

(10-14-2019 09:13 AM)Rocco Wrote:  W&M has 23 sports teams and generated $28.4M in revenue. Delaware has 21 sports teams and $40M in revenue. JMU has 18 teams and $48M in revenue. Towson has 19 teams and $27M in revenue. VT has 22 sports teams and generated $87M in revenue. Huge is going to get blamed for economics being a cold and uncaring beast.

Maybe I'm missing something obvious but how does UD generate so much more revenue than us? $12M would solve a lot of problems in our athletic department.

http://cafidatabase.knightcommission.org...he_money-1

http://cafidatabase.knightcommission.org...he_money-1

They get about $33M in "government support". There's nothing listed for student fees so I assume some form of that comes from fees on their larger student base.

Hmm, W&M shows only $1.29M in revenue in "Institutional/Government Support". Since we all know that the state of Virginia provides zero dollars for athletics, that means that the institution in question is W&M itself. Well, I have no problem with W&M using a portion of its "For The Bold" giving (1 billion dollars) for this purpose. Say $10M a year for a few years until changes become self-sustaining ($10M, what is that, 1% --- hardly seems like too much for such a bold purpose as to make W&M relevant in the big 3 sports and maintain its competitiveness in all the olympic sports at which it excels). Sure, you could salt that money away instead for future use --- but what future use is as important as the bold vision that W&M has right now for that money.

Also, the College gets only $0.9M from "Corporate Sponsorship, Advertising, Licensing". I thought Huge was hired because she was such a great fundraiser. So get busy getting naming rights for some of our athletic venues. I'm sure that Kaplan or Zable or Plumeri wouldn't mind relinquishing their stadium names in order for the Tribe to get much needed bucks (relax, just kidding). How about naming everything after Geico? I'm sure Geico would be happy with that. (Again, just kidding. Sort of.).

Lastly, what is this about only $0.62M in "Competition Guarantees"? I keep reading about other FCS schools getting $800K, $1M, or more for FCS games. Why do we get less? Negotiate better! How much do we get for P5 basketball games?

G5 schools can get that much, most FCS schools get ~400-500k like we do. Schools can only count 1 FCS game towards bowl eligibility, so FBS teams tend to get a little more. There's also more FCS teams looking for those games than FBS teams, so there's a bit of supply and demand. We also generally schedule these games very locally, so we don't get anything extra for travel.

This is not a comprehensive article, but the FCS games Forbes mentions here get between 325-550k (https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomlayberge...42bfd055).

Notably, Penn State paid Idaho 1.45 million for their game, since Idaho was FBS when it was scheduled, and PSU honored the contract.