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My school makes a profit of about $400k on revenues of $3.5 million. I can only assume most of those revenues come from donations and what have you, because students get free admission to sporting events and nobody else goes to the games.
 
Originally posted by: PinmasterJay
Originally posted by: sciencewhiz
Notre Dame appears to be about 23 million.
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Notre Dame --- $22,681,846
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I edited the OP to note the Wiki article actually claims $23.9 million, must be from a different set of dates because it says "in 2006"

In 2006, the Bulldogs recorded the highest profit margin of any athletic program in the country (according to the EADA report [3]), pulling in USD$23.9 million, and also recorded another highly-successful year on the field.
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Originally posted by: PinmasterJay
Originally posted by: sciencewhiz
Notre Dame appears to be about 23 million.
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Thanks for the info, because this is higher than that of Georgia

Notre Dame --- $22,681,846
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Anyone want to bet that's due to ND football not having a conf. affiliation and thus not having to share it's bowl payouts? Yes, they lose constantly, but they lose in the big ones and get better payouts.

AFAIK the Sugar Bowl paid out $17 mil to each team. ND keeps all $17 mil of its share. LSU has to share with the sec (13 way split... 12 teams + sec itself) and thus gets a mere fraction of the payout.
 
Originally posted by: JasonCoder

Anyone want to bet that's due to ND football not having a conf. affiliation and thus not having to share it's bowl payouts? Yes, they lose constantly, but they lose in the big ones and get better payouts.

AFAIK the Sugar Bowl paid out $17 mil to each team. ND keeps all $17 mil of its share. LSU has to share with the sec (13 way split... 12 teams + sec itself) and thus gets a mere fraction of the payout.
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Actually, Notre Dame only gets 4.5 million now from BCS games. That number is minor compared to their national TV and radio deals.
 
My school lost over $1M in '06. No profits whatsoever. 🙁

I also could not imagine where the $22M in reported revenue could come from. Attendance is paltry, and the conference doesn't exactly have a major TV deal or anything.
 
Originally posted by: sciencewhiz
Originally posted by: JasonCoder

Anyone want to bet that's due to ND football not having a conf. affiliation and thus not having to share it's bowl payouts? Yes, they lose constantly, but they lose in the big ones and get better payouts.

AFAIK the Sugar Bowl paid out $17 mil to each team. ND keeps all $17 mil of its share. LSU has to share with the sec (13 way split... 12 teams + sec itself) and thus gets a mere fraction of the payout.
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Actually, Notre Dame only gets 4.5 million now from BCS games. That number is minor compared to their national TV and radio deals.
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Well spank my ass and call me Sally. And look what they're gonna do with it. Text
 
For University of Texas at Arlington = $6,093,927

We don't have a football team and apparently the expenses equal exactly to the revenues.
 
Now take the revenue numbers and compare them to what an academic/research program could generate given the same resources. Using the UW example in the OP the program generates ~200k per FTE coaching staff. A research program pulling in only 200k per FTE would be shutdown for being unproductive.
 
University of Texas at Austin:

$97,756,777 Revenue - $83,600,249 Expenses =

$14,156,528


$60,880,069 in just Football revenue. :Q

It's ridiculous how much of a football school we are. I guess that's prevalent with all Texas schools though.
 
I think it's interesting how certain sports (mens basketball/football) carry the load for the entire athletic department and how women's sports usually operate at a loss. Even at Maryland the #1 ranked women's basketball team who won the NCAA championship last year, loses money if you just look at that department by itself (Revenue = 182k, Expenses = $1.9 million)
 
Originally posted by: benchiu
I think it's interesting how certain sports (mens basketball/football) carry the load for the entire athletic department and how women's sports usually operate at a loss. Even at Maryland the #1 ranked women's basketball team who won the NCAA championship last year, loses money if you just look at that department by itself (Revenue = 182k, Expenses = $1.9 million)
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Yeah I noticed the same for North Carolina
 
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