Most Profitable Athletic Programs

[PinmasterJay]

I believe the best way to determine an athletic departments success is look at profits.
This looks at more than just basketball and football, but a school's overall athletic achievements. You can claim that championships measure success, while I will argue that profits measure success through earnings (which are accumulated in part through championships, among other things) while also spending money wisely.

Profits 7/1/05 - 6/30/06
Wisconsin --- $16,063,472

During this period we won both the Men's and Women's Hockey Championships, Men's Cross Country Championship, finished 11th overall in Volleyball, finished 15th overall in Football, 4th in the Big10 in Basketball (down year as of late)

By comparison, Wikipedia has Georgia listed as most profitable at $23.9 million.

Just curious as to what the numbers are for other schools to see if this Wikipedia article is accurate and maybe get an idea of rankings here. Unfortunately the site doesn't list profits directly, so there is no way to list them in order by profits.

Look up your own school here

 

[JS80]

UCLA - revenues almost equal expenses. lame.

 

[Anubis]

LOL $92,894

 

[jacob0401]

$3,430,829

University of Washington...

 

[jacob0401]

Originally posted by: Anubis
ye ai dont think my school has profits cause i cant find where it says that

total revenue - total expenses = profit

that's what i did ot get my number...

 

[weirdichi]

N/M.

 

[xSkyDrAx]

about 150k profit

 

[bcterps]

I find it very strange that my school's revenue and expenses were exactly the same. $46,283,648. University of Maryland, College Park. There's gotta be something fishy going on there.

 

[theknight571]

University of Michigan

$85,452,441 Revenue - $67,909,246 Expenses = $17,543,195 Profit.

LOL... $50,000,000+ of the Revenue is just from Football.

 

[PinmasterJay]

Originally posted by: jacob0401

Originally posted by: Anubis
ye ai dont think my school has profits cause i cant find where it says that

total revenue - total expenses = profit

that's what i did ot get my number...

This is the correct way to calculate it

 

[purbeast0]

Originally posted by: benchiu
I find it very strange that my school's revenue and expenses were exactly the same. $46,283,648. University of Maryland, College Park. There's gotta be something fishy going on there.

LOL ... Yah I just searched that too and was like

 

[PinmasterJay]

Originally posted by: theknight571
University of Michigan

$85,452,441 Revenue - $67,909,246 Expenses = $17,543,195 Profit.

LOL... $50,000,000+ of the Revenue is just from Football.

Yeah thats nuts, Michigan's football revenue is almost as high as all of Wisconsin's sports combined

 

[BlancoNino]

Originally posted by: jacob0401

Originally posted by: Anubis
ye ai dont think my school has profits cause i cant find where it says that

total revenue - total expenses = profit

that's what i did ot get my number...

Geeze, check out how much women's sports are costing the University...what a waste.

 

[chowderhead]

Originally posted by: purbeast0

Originally posted by: benchiu
I find it very strange that my school's revenue and expenses were exactly the same. $46,283,648. University of Maryland, College Park. There's gotta be something fishy going on there.

LOL ... Yah I just searched that too and was like

probably an accounting technique used to pay off capital improvements like stadiums i.e. all profits used to pay debts like new stadiums over time and spread out among all teams.

ETA: BlancoNino, it's called Title 9 ... which compells universities to try and offer parity to women sports.

 

[PinmasterJay]

Originally posted by: purbeast0

Originally posted by: benchiu
I find it very strange that my school's revenue and expenses were exactly the same. $46,283,648. University of Maryland, College Park. There's gotta be something fishy going on there.

LOL ... Yah I just searched that too and was like

Wow, financial planning genius there?

 

[amish]

butler university: revenue = expenses

supposedly dollar for dollar.

 

[hdeck]

Texas - $97,756,777 - $83,600,249 = $14,156,528

would have been more profits i assume had the period been a tad earlier. 9/1/05-8/31/06 missed our baseball championship and one of our track & field championships i believe. that godzillatron cost a ton, too.

 

[PinmasterJay]

Originally posted by: chowderhead
ETA: BlancoNino, it's called Title 9 ... which compells universities to try and offer parity to women sports.

Yeah, that is unfortunately holding Wisconsin back from having a baseball team despite having pretty good youth programs for baseball in the state

 

[theknight571]

Originally posted by: chowderhead
ETA: BlancoNino, it's called Title 9 ... which compells universities to try and offer parity to women sports.

That's why our football tickets are $55-$60 / seat / game now + some @#$%@#$ seat license annually.

I remember when it was $10-$12 / seat / game.

 

[sciencewhiz]

Notre Dame appears to be about 23 million.

 

[ntdz]

North Carolina makes about $13 million a year...they make $13 million on their basketball team alone...$17 million in revenues, only $4.5 million in expenses.

 

[handoverfist]

University of Houston

revenue = expenses

 

[Feldenak]

Auburn University

Revenue: $68,306,253
Expenses: $61,726,665

Profits: $6,579,588

 

[Cattlegod]

grad U of M:

85,452,441 - 67,909,246 = 17,543,195

undergrad Michigan Tech:

$5,817,318 - $5,703,705 = ~ 100k

 

[ElFenix]

i went to UT. several years ago, ohio state was the largest program

at over 100 million for revenue and expenses, looks like its still the largest. but wtf is this 'coed' sport that they're spending so much on?

looks like they're running about 3 million profit.