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University Athletic Departments Revenue & Spending

cincibuck;2132766; said:
Hmmmmmm, could this be why Notre Dame hasn't joined the Big 10? Would they gain anything if they gave up their independence in order to share in the BTN revenue pot or might their revenue actually slip if they joined?

Everything I've seen implies that they are making less from their various media deals as an independent than they would if they joined the B1G.
 
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Muck;2132790; said:
Because of the stem cells in Pepsi.

I thought it had to do with the technicolor in their eyeballs.

Muck;2132770; said:
Everything I've seen implies that they are making less from their various media deals as an independent than they would if they joined the B1G.

Yeah - I think I saw a claim once (probably on Buckeye Planet) that Notre Dame makes only the third most money of the schools in their state. Both Indiana and Purdue make more, because of the BTN. I don't think that I've actually seen anything that supports that, though. But I was talking to someone else, who wouldn't be caught dead looking at Ohio State forums, and she said that she'd heard that somewhere, too.
 
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Zurp;2134475; said:
I thought it had to do with the technicolor in their eyeballs.



Yeah - I think I saw a claim once (probably on Buckeye Planet) that Notre Dame makes only the third most money of the schools in their state. Both Indiana and Purdue make more, because of the BTN. I don't think that I've actually seen anything that supports that, though. But I was talking to someone else, who wouldn't be caught dead looking at Ohio State forums, and she said that she'd heard that somewhere, too.

I think a recent comparison put the domers at $15M to each Big Ten school's $22M.
 
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Ohio State passes Alabama in athletics revenue after $27M spike

Ohio State University now looks up only to the University of Texas when it comes to athletic departments.

A $27 million spike in revenue during the fiscal year ended June 30, thanks mostly to the national champion Buckeyes football program, propelled Ohio State past the University of Alabama to claim the nation’s second-largest athletic department, according to new financial data from the U.S. Department of Education.

Revenue generated by Ohio State's self-sustaining department of more than 30 men's and women's sports climbed nearly 19 percent to $171 million, up from $144 million a year earlier.

Over the same period, Alabama’s fell 1 percent to about $151 million, compared with $153 million in the 2014 fiscal year.

The University of Texas, meanwhile, still claimed the country’s largest athletic department as revenue grew 13 percent to nearly $180 million, up from $161 million.

Ohio State's rival, the University of Michigan, generated athletic revenue of $132 million during the 2015 fiscal year, down 3 percent from $136 million a year earlier.

The Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics annual report, available here, does not include commentary about why revenue or expenses increased or decreased at certain schools.
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Brian over at FTT's blog compiled some of the numbers from the DOE's annual report...

The 2014 financial year data are out.

1. UT – $180M (+13%)
2. OSU – $171M (+19%)
3. AL – $151M (-1%)
4. LSU – $139M
5. OU – $136M
6. MI – $132M (-3%)
7. UF – $131M
8. PSU – $128M
9. AU – $127M
10. WI – $126M

The top 67 includes all the P5 teams plus #13 ND, #52 UConn and #66 BYU.

Lowest P5 by conference:
ACC: #67 WF – $59M
P12: #65 Utah – $65M
B10: #64 RU – $65M
B12: #62 ISU – $66M
SEC: #59 MS St – $68M

Average by conference:
SEC – $110M
B10 – $102M
B12 – $99M
P12 – $86M
ACC – $82M

Central-weighted average by conference:
SEC – $111M
B10 – $99M
B12 – $93M
P12 – $85M
ACC – $81M

# of schools over $100M:
ACC – 2 (FSU and UL; 11 below $87M)
B10 – 7 (MN yes, MSU no; 6 below $88M)
B12 – 4 (6 below $88M)
P12 – 3 (Stanford, USC, UW; 8 below $86M)
SEC – 10 (MO, MS, MS St and Vandy all below $84M)

Distribution:
>$120M – 13
$100M – 14
$80M – 18
$60M – 20
$40M – 14
<$40M – 47 (mostly in the 20s and 30s)
 
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Nebraska on track for big payday in 2017; Maryland’s larger Big Ten payout is part advance

During its first year in the Big Ten, Maryland was paid more conference dollars than any other school and almost double the league’s payout to Nebraska.

Maryland received a total conference distribution of $36.1 million during the 2014-15 school year, according to figures obtained by The World-Herald. That compared to the $32 million standard payout of most league schools and the $18.7 million paid to Nebraska.

Some $11.6 million of Maryland’s dollars were an advance on future payments, intended to help Maryland make good on the $31 million penalty it owed for leaving the Atlantic Coast Conference.

Still, the $24.5 million base payment to Maryland during its first year in the league was well above what Nebraska received that same year, which was the school’s fourth in the Big Ten.

Despite that discrepancy, Big Ten officials say the basic financial terms on which Nebraska, Maryland and other league newcomer Rutgers joined the Big Ten were essentially the same. Rutgers received roughly $10 million in its first year in the league last year.

And University of Nebraska Chancellor Harvey Perlman said he does not believe his school is being treated unfairly. The differences, he said, can be traced to the disparate positions the schools were in at the time they negotiated their entries into the league.

In 2010, Nebraska was fleeing a Big 12 that appeared to be imploding, he said. Conversely, Maryland in 2013 was being actively courted by the Big Ten, which was eager to get into the Eastern television markets that Maryland and Rutgers represented.

“There was a considerable difference in negotiating leverage between Nebraska and Maryland,” Perlman said. “While we brought a better athletic reputation, they brought considerably more financial opportunity for the conference — opportunity that Nebraska will share in the years ahead.”

Indeed, Nebraska is now well on its way to a B1G payday.

In less than 18 months, Nebraska will become fully invested in the league financially, staking a one-twelfth ownership in the league’s lucrative TV network and eligible for annual conference payouts that by then could easily exceed $40 million.

It was known at the time Maryland joined the Big Ten that the school had received a sweetened, front-loaded deal. Published reports put the initial payment at $32 million.

However, in response to a public records request from The World-Herald, the university last week for the first time revealed its actual first-year payment. It also revealed how much of the payment was considered an advance, dollars the school will ultimately have to pay back through reduced payments in later years.

Not only is the $36 million the largest payment to any Big Ten school, it also appears by far to be the largest payment a school has ever received from a league. That’s largely because no other league rewards its members like the Big Ten.

Federal tax filings for 2013-14, the most recent available for all five of college football’s power conferences, show the Big Ten offered standard shares to its longtime members that year of $28 million. All the other four major conferences offered top payments of about $21 million.


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... no other league rewards its members like the Big Ten.


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