(06-12-2017 03:06 PM)Got Ribe Wrote: If you're interested in drilling down a bit, check out the latest APA report for our athletic program and JMU's.
Observations from looking at this data:
1. Salaries for football staff is $1.3M, for basketball .7M. Neither number is high and are not competitive in the industries. However, just noticing, don't we have more football coaches than basketball coaches? Hasn't our football coach been here for 37 years? Wasn't our former OC a former big shot with pro football experience? So, I am merely saying that I would have thought that the gap in salaries between football and basketball would have been larger.
2. Aren't there 53 scholarships in football (or is it 43?) and even more walk-ons? Aren't there only a maximum of 15 players in basketball? So why is the basketball recruiting budget LARGER (119K, 116K respectively) for basketball than for football?
3. Couldn't help but notice that JMU's recruiting budgets for football and basketball are 94K and 101K respectively --- less than ours!! I guess Madison lets their football national championship(s) do the recruiting for them!
4. The numbers shown for Fundraising, Marketing, and Promotion for football and basketball were 238 and 540. Not a typo. Not in thousands. That number can't possibly be right! The t-shirts for the Gold game alone would have cost more than that.
5. Look at the guarantees (both incoming and outgoing) for both W&M and JMU, especially for basketball. JMU is able to get those out-of-conference paydays for men's basketball. Apparently it does wonders for the budget.
6. Look at the ticket sales for JMU's women's basketball and then compare it to ours. Goes to show you what a successful (and thus popular) program can do for your school. I applaud Coach Swanson; I believe he is on the way to getting us there!
7. Lastly, I notice that JMU had one category of expenses that W&M does not have: severance payments. JMU will tell you that it is just the cost of doing business.
So, after reviewing these numbers, is all the gloom and doom talk about men's basketball needing a larger recruiting budget really true? The recruiting budget is larger than football's and it is larger than JMU's for football and basketball.