(11-01-2019 12:53 AM)ljmhurons Wrote: (10-30-2019 02:04 PM)emu steve Wrote: (10-30-2019 01:46 PM)Ken Barna Wrote: Dear Friends,
One must consider the source of the article. Next, to me the largest reason for Oakland's success is the fact basketball is their only major sport, so their resources go there, not to football. Lastly, their coach is a good recruiter, and a good coach of x's and o's.
Yes.
Our resources ($) are spread very thin.
We have morphed from a MBB to a FB school.
There isn't much difference in spending between OU and EMU.
https://csnbbs.com/thread-813807.html
These kind of numbers are very, very hard to interpret comparing school X to Y because of how schools report these kind of numbers. I realize that the numbers are compiled by taking the answers to specific questions.
That said...
1). Without doing the appropriate statistical test (Spearman rho correlation), it is very obvious that there is a very strong relationship between the ranking of performance and expenditures.
2). We ranked #194 out of 348 schools on expenditures and #9 in the MAC. I remember the old expression, "You get what you pay for." Well we aren't paying much. We're shopping at Target and not Nieman Marcus. That said, we are getting good value shopping at Target. There are some schools shopping at Goodwill. The bottom two schools spent 25% of EMU's expenditures and probably less than the income tax withholding on the salary of say the HC at KY (as an example).
3). Even though it is not indicated in the data which was for 2015-6, EMU has cut athletic budgets since that time. I would be fascinated to see how we ranked for 2018 - 9.
4). EMU and the MAC 'punch above their weight class' relative to expenditures. Our expenditures are comparable to Loyola-Md and Canisius, two small private Catholic schools. Those schools 'bracket' EMU in spending per the published data.
One MAY conclude, that we are doing better on the court than one would predict based on dollars spent. Quick pivot to FB: We are getting great value for the dollars we are spending on CC's salary.
EDIT!!!
We are now spending LESS money on MBB than the data supplied for 2015 - 6.
https://www.midmajormadness.com/2018/6/1...-mid-major
Eastern Michigan $1,876,259.00 $1,876,260.00 MAC
According to this Facebook post we are #212 (out of almost 350 schools).