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Big Ten Financials by School and Sport

  • Kind of an interesting look here. This website takes the revenue and expenses reported to the dept of education. MSU doing quite well in FB and BB combined. we're about 15th nationally in profit. Revenue wise in FB we're in line with Iowa and Wisconsin, behind Nebraska PSU, OSU and um.

    The B1G also has on average 23 varsity sports compared to 17 for the SEC (Hollis told me that once)...

    http://businessofcollegesports.com/2011/12/21/big-ten-financials-10-11/big-ten-10-11/

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  • Texas' revenue is staggering

    http://businessofcollegesports.com/2011/12/28/top-50-most-profitable-fbs-football-and-mens-basketball-programs/

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  • Interesting that we spend far more on basketball (about 17% more than 2nd place Indiana) than any other team in the Big Ten. According to this Ohio State spends $4 mln less than we do on basketball ($5.25 mln vs. $9.25 mln). Kinda hard to believe when you compare the coaching salaries, facilities, and travel costs, which are probably pretty similar at both schools. Makes you wonder if expense allocation is uniform. I kind of doubt that it is. However, this is still great info. With both programs clicking at once it really gives us a solid financial foundation. With the continued improvement in BTN revenue, a new television contract upcoming (following the 2015 season), and strong season ticket sales in both sports I'd really like to see us take the plunge and seek approval for a major improvement of Spartan Stadium.

    007Spartan

  • 007Spartan said...

    Interesting that we spend far more on basketball (about 17% more than 2nd place Indiana) than any other team in the Big Ten. According to this Ohio State spends $4 mln less than we do on basketball ($5.25 mln vs. $9.25 mln). Kinda hard to believe when you compare the coaching salaries, facilities, and travel costs, which are probably pretty similar at both schools. Makes you wonder if expense allocation is uniform. I kind of doubt that it is. However, this is still great info. With both programs clicking at once it really gives us a solid financial foundation. With the continued improvement in BTN revenue, a new television contract upcoming (following the 2015 season), and strong season ticket sales in both sports I'd really like to see us take the plunge and seek approval for a major improvement of Spartan Stadium.

    well, there are many things that factor into that that other school might not account for. example: The university pays everytime we have an event in the Breslin to another department, it is a "student event" center not part of the athletic department, is the reasoning for this IIRC.

    This post was edited by teh_Spartan on 1/4/2012 at 12:15 PM

    teh_Spartan

  • there are weird quirks as well in our athletic department:

    concessions count towards the general fund (or housing)
    event parking counts towards something else entirely too not athletics.

    it's a major disadvantage. should we post a link to the donate to spartan fund thread...?

    I put my extra donation to "FOOTBALL" this year. more specifically: money for coach D's plane to go directly to Texas and get some studs...

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  • 007Spartan said...

    Interesting that we spend far more on basketball (about 17% more than 2nd place Indiana) than any other team in the Big Ten. According to this Ohio State spends $4 mln less than we do on basketball ($5.25 mln vs. $9.25 mln). Kinda hard to believe when you compare the coaching salaries, facilities, and travel costs, which are probably pretty similar at both schools. Makes you wonder if expense allocation is uniform. I kind of doubt that it is. However, this is still great info. With both programs clicking at once it really gives us a solid financial foundation. With the continued improvement in BTN revenue, a new television contract upcoming (following the 2015 season), and strong season ticket sales in both sports I'd really like to see us take the plunge and seek approval for a major improvement of Spartan Stadium.

    We bought a new score board last year.

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  • teh_Spartan said...

    well, there are many things that factor into that that other school might not account for. example: The university pays everytime we have an event in the Breslin to another department, it is a "student event" center not part of the athletic department, is the reasoning for this IIRC.

    Yeah, Breslin Center is not actually run by the Athletic Department, it's run by Theater Department, I believe. Same guy that runs the Wharton Center.

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  • teh_Spartan said...

    well, there are many things that factor into that that other school might not account for. example: The university pays everytime we have an event in the Breslin to another department, it is a "student event" center not part of the athletic department, is the reasoning for this IIRC.

    Could be, but I doubt that is much of a factor. I'm sure it has to do with facilities costs. MSU did spend $2mln this year to upgrade the scoreboard. Perhaps that is included. Then you have all the ancillary staff, trainers, managers, doctors, etc. How are they accounted for? Is that a general AD expense or is it allocated by use to each individual sport? Again, I doubt there is uniformity in how this is reported. Also have to guess as to how revenues are allocated. Ticket sales are easy, but TV and donor funds are probably a little trickier. TV in particular could be allocated numerous ways. It would be interesting to see a full consolidated income statement for each of the 12 B1G schools.

    007Spartan

  • http://michiganstate.247sports.com/Board/93/tOffical-Donate-to-Spartan-Football-Thread-5979224/1

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