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Money in college athletics

Liberty City El said:
We don’t.

But it’s based on annual total revenue from Football.

This is basically the revenue that is generated by the football program without booster donations & endowments.
Ticket sales, merchandising, licensing etc...

TAMU, UT & the rest of the top 10-12 schools have an unlimited War Chest of cash.

But it highlights that 12 out of the top 25 have had at least 1 playoff appearance since the CFP were first started in 2015 & every team on this list except FSU, Tenn, South Car & Nebraska has had a winning season within the last 4 years & most of them are perennial conference contenders.
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I wonder how it breaks down by category. I'm sure TV revenue is king but is it 70% of the rev? Considering all of the CFPs that Clemson has been to, they are WAY down the list. Just goes to show how strong the Big10 and SEC TV deals are. ACC? Peanuts.
 
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OriginalCanesCanesCanes said:
I saw that, I was trying to hunt down that link - didn’t work.

edit: I just googled “Forbes college football programs value/worth“ so I found some of their listings, basically the same thing, but I’m just wondering how they actually arrived at these numbers. I can’t find that anywhere. Just trying to figure out their methodology. I can dig through the University Of Miami balance sheet and come up with an estimate which is actually significantly higher than some of those numbers, but the way Miami lists it on the public balance sheet it’s hard to figure out actually
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I believe it’s disclosed upon request when they decide to make the list they compile the fiscal spending & revenue earned annually based on the schools that give them the info they’re asking for.

This list is essentially is how much annual revenue these programs generate a year, based on ticket sales, merchandising, licensing, TV money etc... I don’t think they calculate donations & endowments into the approximate estimate.
 
Tru C said:
USC is private too. Need your own stadium to be on that list.
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They KINDAAAA have their own stadium. USC has annexed much of the land around the stadium and they pretty much run/manage the stadium, no matter who is the "official" owner.

I have multiple friends who went to Southern Cal, and in their minds, it's their stadium...and they don't share it with UCLA or anything like that...
 
nobeastofburden said:
Kentucky, Miss State, Vanderbilt, and Missouri are only SEC not on the list.
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MSU and Vandy are in states which have a more "dominant" state team ahead of them. Mizzou just recently joined the SEC. The only surprising SEC "omission" might be Kentucky, particularly with their hoops success.
 
TheOriginalCane said:
MSU and Vandy are in states which have a more "dominant" state team ahead of them. Mizzou just recently joined the SEC. The only surprising SEC "omission" might be Kentucky, particularly with their hoops success.
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This is only for football or Kentucky would be on that list for sure. I would take a guess most of the them aren't far outside the top 25. SEC money
 
TheOriginalCane said:
They KINDAAAA have their own stadium. USC has annexed much of the land around the stadium and they pretty much run/manage the stadium, no matter who is the "official" owner.

I have multiple friends who went to Southern Cal, and in their minds, it's their stadium...and they don't share it with UCLA or anything like that...
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Yup, they took control of it for the next 50,011 years. All revenue and any renovations they get the say so.
 
nobeastofburden said:
This is only for football or Kentucky would be on that list for sure. I would take a guess most of the them aren't far outside the top 25. SEC money
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You are correct. The thread says "Money in college athletics", but the stat refers to college football, specifically.

Still, if Arkansas made the list...MAYBE Kentucky sneaks in? But (the state of) Arkansas doesn't have a "number two" on the level of Louisville, so I can see the "why" of it all.
 
TheOriginalCane said:
They KINDAAAA have their own stadium. USC has annexed much of the land around the stadium and they pretty much run/manage the stadium, no matter who is the "official" owner.

I have multiple friends who went to Southern Cal, and in their minds, it's their stadium...and they don't share it with UCLA or anything like that...
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Makes sense - I mean the stadium is right down the road from the campus
 
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AUcane said:
Makes sense - I mean the stadium is right down the road from the campus
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Yeah. Years ago, based on what I knew about USC, I proposed that UM try to buy up land between the Med School and the Orange Bowl, and try to create a district similar to what USC built/purchased. USC now owns a bunch of land that is not "campus proper", meaning dorms or campus buildings, they own number of blocks that are just commercial buildings with non-USC tenants.
 
TheOriginalCane said:
They KINDAAAA have their own stadium. USC has annexed much of the land around the stadium and they pretty much run/manage the stadium, no matter who is the "official" owner.

I have multiple friends who went to Southern Cal, and in their minds, it's their stadium...and they don't share it with UCLA or anything like that...
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From Wikipedia, FWIW

The stadium serves as the home to the University of Southern California (USC) Trojans football team of the Pac-12 Conference. USC, which operates and manages the Coliseum, granted naming rights to United Airlines in January 2018; after concerns were raised by Coliseum Commission, the airline became title sponsor of the playing field, naming it United Airlines Field at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

The stadium is located in Exposition Park, which is owned by the State of California, and across the street from USC. The Coliseum is jointly owned by the State of California, Los Angeles County, City of Los Angeles and is managed and operated by the Auxiliary Services Department of the University of Southern California.
 
Liberty City El said:
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Gotta derail Texas somehow...perhaps all the other big name schools snatching their skill position players on a yearly basis.
 
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