Slightly OT: Report on schools football expenditures
Just saw the football expenditures report has come out, a couple important highlights
1. Ohio State (1) $31.76
9. Wisconsin (8) $22.04
14. Penn State (17) $19.78
18. Iowa (3) $18.46
20. Michigan (25) $18.32
25. Nebraska (26) $17.93
27. Mich. State (36) $17.46
29. Minnesota (72) $17.43
36. Northwestern (38) $15.73
54. Indiana (57) $12.82
62. Purdue (53) $11.82
65. Illinois (64) $11.09
Kind of weird that we spend less than both Iowa and PSU.. maybe we should start paying our assistants HC salaries..
November 17th, 2010 at 4:18 PM ^
I'm sure we'd be up there if we went bowling last year...
November 17th, 2010 at 4:29 PM ^
went to bowls to make money/increase practice time...
November 17th, 2010 at 4:36 PM ^
Actually schools usually lose money by going to bowl games, despite the pay out.
November 17th, 2010 at 4:49 PM ^
what's Auburn's budget?
Heyoooooooooo
/too obvious a joke
November 17th, 2010 at 4:38 PM ^
"RR shortchanges players"
November 17th, 2010 at 4:53 PM ^
Written by Drew Sharp
November 17th, 2010 at 4:41 PM ^
not getting much bang for their buck
November 17th, 2010 at 4:43 PM ^
Big East
15. Rutgers (16) $19.49
November 17th, 2010 at 5:14 PM ^
So they are paying about 3 million per win... sounds like a fair trade for New Jersey...
November 17th, 2010 at 5:51 PM ^
A substantial amount of that is their stadium expansion, which has been a boondoggle and created huge budget deficits.
But that's the price you pay to go from epic suck to mediocre... and now back to suck.
November 17th, 2010 at 4:45 PM ^
I wonder if alumni and donors do more at Michigan than other schools listed?
November 17th, 2010 at 4:51 PM ^
ahead of us in the Big 10 have huge suite complexes in their stadiums. I'm sure Michigan will now be able to spend more now that they have the increased revenue stream.
November 17th, 2010 at 4:58 PM ^
Michigan's increased revenue will be spent on the notes for the new construction. Once those are paid, we'll be climbing higher on this list.
November 17th, 2010 at 4:57 PM ^
I am wondering if the roughly $4M difference between us and Wisconsin is the income associated for their "whiskey", beer and cheese parties?
November 17th, 2010 at 5:42 PM ^
No. PBR and American cheese slices are not very expensive.
November 17th, 2010 at 5:08 PM ^
I'm trying to figure out what all this money is spent on, and how OSU can be $10 million ahead of the rest of the Big Ten and then some. The article says OSU spent $500,000 less than they did in 2008. That was the year the Buckeyes traveled to LA to play USC in the preseason. So assuming a west coast trip only costs half a mill, I'm befuddled how one program can drop $10 million more than the next. Maybe they fly Jet Blue.
November 17th, 2010 at 5:15 PM ^
OSU may lump a bunch of shared services for all of the sports into the football programs expenses, instead of breaking them out in a cost function manner
That way they can say the break even in non-revenue producing sports
November 17th, 2010 at 5:54 PM ^
Appreciate your sharing this. It is a part of the measure of an Athletic Department.
Amazing to see that Notre Dame, with a student population 8,000 has an Athletic Department budget of $29.4!!!
November 17th, 2010 at 6:55 PM ^
<br>1. My understanding from my sources is that the stadium expansion is paid in full. I've asked several times and the answer I keep getting is it was done through d0nations. Other schools might have interest on debt that would go into their program that we might not have.
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<br>2. Now that the suites and club level are open, there will be substantial dollars spent to upkeep the club areas. Even just air conditioning and heating, carpet cleaning, not to mention depreciation,etc will take it's toll on the expense side. (of course this is more than offset by the revenue) (in the past the stadium was a brick and steel building), now it probably has over 100K of indoor square footage that needs to be maintained, including 3 elevator banks, etc)
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<br>3. Revenue will be much higher with the sales of suites and club seating. This will allow much more 'expenses' not only for players, but even for alums.
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<br>An example of this was that the club seat holders were treated to a friday night white linen dinner before the Uconn game. This was a very high end deal with alcohol. It was catering for 3,000. It probably cost them about $225,000. We would have never seen that in the the past.
November 17th, 2010 at 8:35 PM ^
the truck driver's union has some money to swing around for donations.