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Financing College Athletics – Part 4
RECAP OF PREVIOUS ENTRIES - The US Dept of Education collects information on financing college athletics from colleges/universities and makes this information publically available at Equity in Athletics (EIA). Most articles you see on this subject take their information straight from this website with an unstated assumption that this information is uniformly prepared and provides [...]
Continue reading...D1SCOURSE: ACC AD’s Compensation
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
If you didn’t see VaWolf’s fantastic series on “Financing College Athletics” then you should click here to easily access the articles. Fantastic work that will interest a lot of people. Along those lines, of the best ACC Bloggers we know, D1SCOURSE, posted a great entry analyzing Debbie Yow’s compensation package at Maryland vs NC State [...]
Continue reading...Financing College Sports – Part 3
Thursday, July 29, 2010
SFN: This entry is too good to get lost in the middle of a lot of the news that we’ve had breaking in recent days, so we are moving it back to the front of the blog to make sure that the community sees it. If your attitude going into this latest entry on financing [...]
Continue reading...Financing College Sports – Part One (Major update & additions 10:30am)
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
This piece is the first in a series of related entries that I am doing to discuss the funding behind big-time college athletics. At a minimum, I intend to break down the articles along these lines: (1) Introduction and Organizational Analysis (this entry): (2) A Closer Look at the Numbers (3) Athletic Dept finances across [...]
Continue reading...NC State is Nation’s Fifth Most Profitable Hoops Program
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Financial statements of the nation’s 344-odd Division I NCAA teams are out and and NC State’s hoops program is among the nation’s best in terms of profit margin. Looking at the numbers above, you will see that UNC-CH generates almost twice as much revenue as NC State, but that it’s matching expenses are more than [...]
Continue reading...On the Cheap: NC State’s Athletic Budget vs. the ACC
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Sometimes it helps to see things in black and white, spreadsheet style. From Forbes.com, here’s a listing of ACC school athletic department budgets and the salaries of each Athletic Director: ================= ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE ================= --------------------------------------------------------------- Athletic Yrs at No. of Dept. Guaranteed School Director School Teams Budget Base --------------------------------------------------------------- Georgia Tech Dan Radakovich 3 [...]
Continue reading...Holland on Money Matters
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
I wish this one could be bronzed for the ages. Terry Holland in October 27, 2008′s The Sporting News The administration, with $100 million or more recently invested in facilities and a $50 million annual budget, cannot afford to keep a coach who is not producing a return on that investment. If donors and season-ticket [...]
Continue reading...The Don of Donations (must read)
Friday, September 19, 2008
Out of all fundraisers in college athletics, the Wall Street Journal chose our very own Bobby Purcell to feature in this article. Some may be surprised that there wasn’t a single mention of Lee Fowler and others probably wonder how Bobby can raise so much money since NC State has such “bad” fans. Maybe the [...]
Continue reading...ESPN signs 15-year, 2 Billion deal with SEC
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
The Southeastern Conference has signed a 15-year deal with ESPN reportedly worth more than $2 billion to televise sporting events, including football and men’s and women’s basketball. The deal will end the SEC’s affiliation with Raycom Sports, which has aired basketball since 1986 and SEC football since 1992.
Continue reading...ACC Expansion Revenue Comparison
Monday, July 14, 2008
The ACC hasn’t gotten appreciably richer than any other conference lately. ACC membership is the best thing to happen to Virginia Tech since Frank Beamer. Boston College is another big winner. Miami will have to get used to smaller payoffs for success in return for revenue certainty. Please note – the information contained in this [...]
Continue reading...Money Keeps Growing for the ACC
Friday, June 20, 2008
We have so many new readers coming to SFN every day that many of you have missed some of the great entries of the past. Back around Christmas – when site traffic is also organically low – LRM ran a fantastic analysis of ACC expansion. We wanted to highlight it today for everyone since it [...]
Continue reading...Forbes: The Most Valuable College Basketball Teams (Updated 4pm)
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Note: Introductory Message for our new visitors – SFN Celebrates New Year with NC State Magazine Feature Forbes has come out with a great piece that effectively ranks college basktball programs by “value” that is primarily derived from operating financials from last year. You need to realize that a major component of ‘value’ is the [...]
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Monday, August 30, 2010
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