CUSA budgets

C-USA News & Notes
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Con Rank National Rank
1). 63 Old Dominion C-USA $43,994,715 $42,780,118 $28,419,259 64.60
2). 77 Charlotte C-USA $33,124,557 $28,573,920 $22,632,085 68.32
3). 81 Alabama at Birmingham C-USA $31,896,726 $31,066,375 $19,607,780 61.47
4). 83Middle Tennessee C-USA $31,671,166 $31,671,166 $19,459,839 61.44
5). 85 North Texas C-USA $31,312,298 $31,268,741 $20,079,077 64.13
6). 86Florida Atlantic C-USA $30,919,633 $29,794,361 $19,023,004 61.52
7). 88 Western Kentucky C-USA $30,212,548 $30,212,548 $19,493,007 64.52
8). 89 Texas-El Paso C-USA $29,836,835 $29,395,257 $15,949,810 53.46
9). 95Florida International C-USA $28,613,452 $30,483,759 $23,620,086 82.55
10). 101 Marshall C-USA $27,069,138 $27,397,209 $12,218,077 45.14
11). 105 Texas-San Antonio C-USA $26,807,547 $26,177,864 $13,793,982 51.46
12). 118 Southern Mississippi C-USA $23,972,589 $24,546,909 $8,787,048 36.65
13). 124 Louisiana Tech C-USA $22,209,912 $21,849,418 $9,683,929 43.60

  • Rice not list

Link… http://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/finances/

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My takeaway is that we have by far the worst ROI in CUSA.

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Wish the students would protest. Their subsidy is floating the AD.

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Our peers used to be Cincy, Memphis, Lousiville and others. Now it’s ODU and they are putting us to shame. To shame. Probably with much less of a student subsidy.

Edit: Subsidy is about the same as a percentage of budget.

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Wish the students would protest. Their subsidy is floating the AD.[/quote]

You don’t want that. Football will go away before Judy.

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James Madison coming in at #61 above all CUSA teams lol

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Vision and leadership is what we need.
Hopefully sometime in the next five years, things change.

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clt says this is good news for our AAC invite.

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[quote=“NLP49, post:4, topic:30318”]Our peers used to be Cincy, Memphis, Lousiville and others. Now it’s ODU and they are putting us to shame. To shame. Probably with much less of a student subsidy.

Edit: Subsidy is about the same as a percentage of budget.[/quote]
Note that “subsidy” includes more than student fees. See Methodology link on that page. http://sports.usatoday.com/2016/04/14/methodology-for-ncaa-athletic-department-revenue-database/

[b]Total Subsidy:[/b] The sum of student fees, direct and indirect institutional support and state money, minus certain funds transferred back to the school. The transfer amount cannot exceed the sum of student fees and direct institutional support that the department receives from the school. (Under NCAA reporting rules, any additional money transferred to the school cannot be considered part of the department’s annual operating revenues or expenses.)

The NCAA and others consider student fees, direct and indirect institutional support and state money “allocated,” or everything not generated by the department’s athletics functions.

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These came from the CUSA board - breakdown by each category:

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Grounds for termination

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Grounds for termination was the first graph. They pinned that on lutz and the recession. However you can see from the graph the downtrend started in 06 and actually leveled during the recession and continued down after Lutz.

Football likely saved some people’s butts with not wanting a shakeup before doubling the department. That of course assumes there are consequences or metrics.

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Grounds for termination was the first graph. They pinned that on lutz and the recession. However you can see from the graph the downtrend started in 06 and actually leveled during the recession and continued down after Lutz.

Football likely saved some people’s butts with not wanting a shakeup before doubling the department. That of course assumes there are consequences or metrics.[/quote]

I actually meant to quote the first graph, but screwed up and failed to edit since I’m posting on mobile - and am too lazy to figure out how. ;D

Edit: Apparently it’s super easy to modify, but quoting the right graph would’ve still been a pain. I’m uber lazy. Someone post the AD shrug for me.