Number of non-revenue sports at other schools
Does anyone know of another University with high performing (eh, or in our case - high expectation) football and basketball programs with a similar number of non-revenue varsity sports?
While Ross and donors have covered the capital expenditures of the facility expansion, it's up to the AD to pay the operating expenditures - and this is not a trivial number with respect to OpEx. I'm assuming part of Brandon's expansion was a huge fundraising effort to mirror the success the school had during Coleman's tenure.
Other than maybe ND and Stanford, I'm having difficulty picking out other schools who are trying to operate in this type of model.
Has anyone come across data on this?
ps - I have a completely unfounded theory that the AD is in a financial pinch right now with respect to short term expenses.
December 1st, 2014 at 11:53 AM ^
not sure what the levels of performance are but pretty sure they have more varsity sports then UM does.
December 1st, 2014 at 11:54 AM ^
OSU has more teams(19 men and 20 women varsity sports) than us and they seem to be doing well.
December 1st, 2014 at 11:55 AM ^
OSU has more than we do. 37 listed on their official site. We're I think a bit higher than average, but not meaningfully so.
December 1st, 2014 at 11:55 AM ^
Ohio State has 37 varsity sports according to their website, which is similar to the number we offer.
December 1st, 2014 at 12:02 PM ^
According to mgoblue.com we only have 27 sports. 37% more teams at Ohio State. As far as the total scholarships you would have to dig deeper.
December 1st, 2014 at 12:04 PM ^
Pick a big state school...
| School | Sports | Mens | Womens |
| Michigan | 27 | 13 | 14 |
| Ohio State | 39 | 19 | 20 |
| Texas | 21 | 10 | 11 |
| Tennessee | 18 | 8 | 10 |
| Florida | 21 | 10 | 11 |
| Cal | 29 | 14 | 15 |
| Georgia | 19 | 8 | 11 |
| Notre Dame | 23 | 12 | 11 |
| Stanford | 36 | 16 | 20 |
| Wisconsin | 23 | 11 | 12 |
edit: Yes, I know ND and Stanford aren't state schools, but similar at least in this context.
December 1st, 2014 at 12:14 PM ^
Cal was the school I was going to mention as well. I would imagine UCLA/USC would be up there, as well as schools like UNC and Penn State who has very good non-revenue sports. Michigan has more than most, but there are certainly others in our echelon.
EDIT: Penn State has 29, UNC has 26, UCLA has 21 and USC has 20.
December 1st, 2014 at 12:06 PM ^
All of them are TRYING. I'd guess there are at least 4 in every major conference that have just as many varsity teams. I mean we are tied for 3rd in B1G with RUTGERS... All of them are spending money. Maryland might have money problems, but their facilities are quite nice, I don't think we are as special as you are hoping...
December 1st, 2014 at 12:15 PM ^
There was an article here - LINK - which gave summary numbers from the budget but didn't link to the presentation given to the Regents like similar articles have in the past.
The expectation for 2014-15 was $145.9 million in expenses against a $151.1 million budget, leaving a surplus of $5.2 million, the lowest in over a decade.
Of some note, the department currently services about $233 million in debt from current and planned work, so it is true that facilities costs hang over the head of this department somewhat.
December 1st, 2014 at 12:26 PM ^
which is why the issue of multi-million-dollar buyouts is not some trifling detail for Hackett to deal with.
December 1st, 2014 at 4:48 PM ^
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