Less Money, Mo' Problems
by voteprime on Jul 29, 2009 3:08 PM EDT
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PrintThe Orlando Sentinel is apparently killing it with their "College Gridiron 365," so let's add one more link to the list.
Obviously, if you follow the link there is a chart listing all of the Div I-A schools in descending order by revenue earned last season.
The chart in this blog entry ranks all Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly known as Division I-A) schools by the total revenue they took in during the 2007-08 reporting year. These revenues include generated revenue (such as proceeds from ticket sales and sponsorships) and allocated revenue (such as tuition waivers, money from student fees and direct institutional support.)
The figures come from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education. Each year, the Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act requires schools to report their overall revenues to the Department of Education. (The Naval Academy and U.S. Military Academy did not report their revenues and, therefore, are not included in the chart.)
Surprisingly, Syracuse comes in at #54 (out of 118 schools on the list [noted above, Navy and Army are not listed since they don't report their revenues]). Perhaps an FBS school with history just always is going to bring in a bare minimum of revenue, even when they are putrid, like Syracuse. Or perhaps being a BCS school, you get a lot of extra dough at the end of the season just because someone in your conference played in a bowl.
Regardless, before you get your hopes up, I have some bad news: Syracuse was just 5th among the Big East:
39th Connecticut
40th West Virginia
44th Louisville
45th Rutgers
54th Syracuse
61st Pittsburgh
66th USF
67th Cincinnati
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Good timing
just posted my thoughts on this.
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I have a question for you vote prime.
Can you change your signature to “Go Tartans”?
WTF is a F*ing Tartan anyway!?
A “Tart” is a…..you know…….
A "tartan" is the pattern on a kilt
Tartan is a pattern consisting of criss-crossed horizontal and vertical bands in multiple colours. Tartans originated in woven cloth, now used in many other materials. Tartan is particularly associated with Scotland. Scottish kilts almost always have tartan patterns.
My alma mater (not actually Syracuse) is Carnegie Mellon University, and we are the Tartans. Very menacing. I mean, we’re not even an animate object. We’re a fucking pattern that you most often find on a fucking skirt.
That is almost as menacing as our Scottish terrier mascot Scottie (though he is a gift from Bill Cosby, which is sorta cool).
I mean, come on, look at the damn banner at the top of the mascot’s page:
It’s like a really bad personal ad for our mascot. “Hi boys, my name is Scottie. I love when people play with my beard and I’m not wearing anything under my kilt. GO TARTANS!”
We weren’t known for sports…
Its scary if that's just revenue earned
In terms of profit, we must be dead last. Because the university has to pay for tuition, room, board, books, tutors, etc for all of the athletes, Syracuse probably has the highest cost out of any of these schools. I just looked at the private schools (i think) and found that Pitt and Cincinnati are the next closest schools in terms of tuition at $23k per year. Thats $10k less per football player. That means on a football team with 85 scholarships at Syracuse costs $850,000 more than the next BE school.
Just a thought. I don’t know about you, but how is Rutgers making all that money? Their stadium pales in comparison to most high schools down south and who would go and see them play cupcake U 4 times a year? I smell mafia involvement here.
by Rocket Ship Science on Jul 31, 2009 7:45 AM EDT reply actions
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