Most Profitable College Football Teams


Mississippi State's head football coach just got 2.6 million dollars for four years after a 5-7 season.....It must be nice.



TXSU said:
College football's $1.1 billion profit
By Chris Isidore, senior writerDecember 29, 2010: 9:59 PM ET


NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The richest college football programs got richer in 2010, pocketing more than $1 billion in profits for the first time.

The profit for the 68 teams that play in the six major conferences was up 11% from the prior school year, according to a CNNMoney analysis of figures filed by each school with the Department of Education.

In the school year that ended in 2010, the vast majority of the schools in one of these deep-pocketed conferences posted a profit. Four of them broke even and only one -- Wake Forest -- reported a loss.

On average, each team earned $15.8 million last year, or well over $1 million per game.

They posted that jump in combined profit even though revenue rose by only 6% to $2.2 billion. That means the schools had a combined profit margin of 49%, enough to make any pro team owner green with envy.

Increasingly lucrative broadcast deals and strong ticket sales have been driving revenue. And, of course, not having to pay your athletes gives big-time college football the ultimate business model.

Bowl-eligible schools in the smaller conferences weren't nearly as profitable. Fifty-three schools split profits of $26 million. Eight lost money.

There was little change in the rankings of the most profitable schools. The University of Texas football program was once again the leader in both revenue, with $94 million, and profit, with $68 million.

Alabama is good enough to rank No. 2 in revenue and No. 7 in profits, while Georgia ranked No. 3 in revenue and No. 2 in profit.

Profits didn't always translate to victories on the field. Texas finished the season 5 wins and 7 losses, and players will be watching the bowl season on television this year. Georgia and Alabama are in small-dollar bowls this year.

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Herbert77060 said:
Kids should not be left to their own when making these decisions. Parents need to be involved. But the problem is that too many parents who look like us live vicariously through our children and they want as much as the child does to go after the shiny beads and trinkets.....and to get paid whenever possible.

To be able to revamp and upgrade we need to put a superior product on the field and on the courts....we can't do that unless we get the best athletes. But the same mentality that has us standing in line and fighting over $200 Jordan's is the same mentality that makes us flock to their schools.
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PREACH..

I knew my common sense was shared with atleast someone that knows what they are talking about...

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Herbert77060 said:
Kids should not be left to their own when making these decisions. Parents need to be involved.
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You mean like Cam Newton's dad and Reggie Bush's parents?

Throughout this whole thread you have been banging the drum for young African-American athletes and their families to consider and attend HBCUs. You then go onto say that the only way HBCU can compete is to get the best athletes? That is true. I don't disagree with that.

However, what about the kids who are currently attending HBCUs? To me, that is the same mindset you bemoan those who choose not too attend HBCUs.
 
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Yup...just like them...remember I said some of us like to live vicariously through our children....and get paid whenever possible.

Am I the only one who saw 'Breaking the Huddle'? Even though they didn't want Black folk at Alabama games they sat outside the stadium and listened on transistor radios when 'bama played USC. Yeah they cheered for USC but they could have done that at home or at the barbershop.

I understand the argument that it is our tax money too (that supports their schools) but DAYUM....is everything about money?


kendrick said:
You mean like Cam Newton's dad and Reggie Bush's parents?
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I am not bemoaning anything. I personally think that a lot of our athletic woes lie with coaching or the lack there of. I see how we perform against non-HBCU schools with comparable talent.

And I practice what I preach about sending (or steering) our children toward HBCUs. My son finished from sTu in (2008) Journalism in 4 years (of course summer school was necessary). My youngest (daughter) was at Xavier in New Orleans until the party bug hit. Now she will be going to HCC to get her hours straightened out. My oldest went to puke puke gag gag Sam Houston State and finished in 2005. I tried my best to get her to go to an HBCU but she has this thing against Black folk....oh yeah, she IS Black.

I never demanded any of them go where I wanted them to go but I did something with my son that I did not do with the girls....I exposed him to HBCU culture. One summer (one month) in an engineering program at PV.....One summer 6 weeks at Xavier in New Orleans and the same summer two weeks at Tuskegee in and engineering program.
And of course sTu football and basketball games he attended with me.

It is about exposure...if we will expose them they will go (for the most part).



kendrick said:
You mean like Cam Newton's dad and Reggie Bush's parents?

Throughout this whole thread you have been banging the drum for young African-American athletes and their families to consider and attend HBCUs. You then go onto say that the only way HBCU can compete is to get the best athletes? That is true. I don't disagree with that.

However, what about the kids who are currently attending HBCUs? To me, that is the same mindset you bemoan those who choose not too attend HBCUs.
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Herbert77060 said:
The SID's job is to get the information out there. That is their job. Put the information in front of the teams/scouts. There are many very gifted athletes (in my not so humble opinion) that play at HBCUs that go unnoticed because no one puts their names in front of the scouts. SIDs should work with the video guys and who ever else to make sure the guys who CAN play get noticed. CDs/DVDs are cheap. A stamp is .44. Excuses are many.
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You really don't have a clue on what they are doing now and you want to add to their workload.

There is no way a SID can do the film and get it to every scout/team in the nation. Do you even know how much time that would take, along with the price of the postage. It doesn't cost .44 to mail a cd/dvd, trust me on that. If this scout you keep talking about did his job he would have found this player. How can someone say they don't have anymore room for a good player and keep his job, his job is to get those players.

Now remember our schools only had 1-2 people working in the sports information office. I guess you need to go down there and volunteer and help them out.
 
I have an idea. I am self-employed (22nd year) in a field that is very competitive and dominated by companies that do not look like me. I just finished this week stuffing envelopes and mailing out company info to prospective clients. I stuffed the envelopes, printed the flyers/brochures and stamped and put them in the mail myself. I joined four chambers of commerce in the Houston area about a month ago and have been mailing my product offerings and company information. I also began an email campaign to chamber members.

I may not know the specifics about SID duties but I am not clueless about promoting business.

Plus, I said the SID should work with the video people to get the CDs/DVDs out to teams/scouts. I never said it would be easy either.



Fiyah said:
You really don't have a clue on what they are doing now and you want to add to their workload.

There is no way a SID can do the film and get it to every scout/team in the nation. Do you even know how much time that would take, along with the price of the postage. It doesn't cost .44 to mail a cd/dvd, trust me on that. If this scout you keep talking about did his job he would have found this player. How can someone say they don't have anymore room for a good player and keep his job, his job is to get those players.

Now remember our schools only had 1-2 people working in the sports information office. I guess you need to go down there and volunteer and help them out.
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Ohio State and Alabama each spend more than $31 million a year to run their football programs, while nine other teams closing out the season at one of those 35 bowl games spend $20 million plus.

The money game
A glance at the 10 highest spending bowl-bound football programs, and the programs that spend the most per undergraduate student, according to the Equity in Athletics Data Analysis Cutting Tool.

Top 10 spenders:
1. Ohio State, $31,763,036
2. Alabama, $31,118,134
3. Notre Dame, $29,490,788
4. Auburn, $27,911,713
5. LSU, $25,566,520
6. Florida, $24,457,557
7. South Carolina, $22,794,211
8. Wisconsin, $22,041,491
9. Arkansas $22,005,014
10. TCU $20,609,361

Top 10 per undergraduate student:
1. Notre Dame, $3,531
2. Tulsa, $3,236
3. TCU, $2,822
4. Stanford, $2,625
5. SMU, $2,113
6. Miami (FL), $1,927
7. Boston College, $1,891
8. Northwestern, $1,851
9. Arkansas, $1,625
10. Auburn $1,518

Notes:
• Figures for most schools were for 12-month periods ending in mid-2010.
• University of Texas spent $25.1 million but did not make a bowl game this season.


The cheapest bowl-bound program? That would be Troy, winner of the New Orleans Bowl on the first postseason weekend, at just a shade over $5 million. That's nearly $23 million less than they spend an hour away at top-ranked Auburn, where the Tigers are playing for the national title this season. Auburn's opponent in the BCS game, Oregon, spends $18 million -- 16th among the bowl-bound schools.

The statistics come from the Department of Education, which has required universities to submit the amount they spend on sports since 2000 as part of the Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act.
 
Are the coaches salaries included in these expenditures?....Just asking.....No point being made.



kendrick said:
Ohio State and Alabama each spend more than $31 million a year to run their football programs, while nine other teams closing out the season at one of those 35 bowl games spend $20 million plus.

The money game
A glance at the 10 highest spending bowl-bound football programs, and the programs that spend the most per undergraduate student, according to the Equity in Athletics Data Analysis Cutting Tool.

Top 10 spenders:
1. Ohio State, $31,763,036
2. Alabama, $31,118,134
3. Notre Dame, $29,490,788
4. Auburn, $27,911,713
5. LSU, $25,566,520
6. Florida, $24,457,557
7. South Carolina, $22,794,211
8. Wisconsin, $22,041,491
9. Arkansas $22,005,014
10. TCU $20,609,361

Top 10 per undergraduate student:
1. Notre Dame, $3,531
2. Tulsa, $3,236
3. TCU, $2,822
4. Stanford, $2,625
5. SMU, $2,113
6. Miami (FL), $1,927
7. Boston College, $1,891
8. Northwestern, $1,851
9. Arkansas, $1,625
10. Auburn $1,518

Notes:
• Figures for most schools were for 12-month periods ending in mid-2010.
• University of Texas spent $25.1 million but did not make a bowl game this season.


The cheapest bowl-bound program? That would be Troy, winner of the New Orleans Bowl on the first postseason weekend, at just a shade over $5 million. That's nearly $23 million less than they spend an hour away at top-ranked Auburn, where the Tigers are playing for the national title this season. Auburn's opponent in the BCS game, Oregon, spends $18 million -- 16th among the bowl-bound schools.

The statistics come from the Department of Education, which has required universities to submit the amount they spend on sports since 2000 as part of the Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act.
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the band fan said:
an SID ain't going to get a football player drafted in today's society.....the main job is make sure they're out there so the scouts can visit the campus and then there has to be tape of them so they can evaluate them......the player has to do their part on the field first......in football and basketball these days, scouts leave nothing unturned....

Fiyah is right in baseball.....your location helps big time as scouts are in Houston all the time and SWAC schools play all over the state so it's easy to be seen.....

as for Houston......folks want to move to places with the word "Land"...Pearland, Sugar Land.......when we get our own schools we think its not good enough so we'll run to the closet suburban place to be the minority again.....no way should Pearland High won a state title while Willowridge, Madison, Booker. T, etc. suffer with no enrollment

when those areas turn black and white folks leave, we'll follow instead of taking it over....Willowridge was the closest example of black folks in the suburbs working together and being successful....but it wasn't good enough still
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TBF. It is like my late father told me growing up. Once we get a neighborhood going good. We allow folks (our own) move in and tear it down. It always said even though you are poor. You don't have to be nasty, criminal, and just geniunely tear down your hood. That's what happened to Mo City. Especially the section closest to Willowridge. Blacks who first moved to Mo City had pride and kept up their homes and pushed their kids for excellence. You don't have the same folks there anymore and even the ones who still live in the area don't have school age kids anymore so they aint active. The newer neighbors who have brought their ghetto ways in the area and tore down the infrastructure and of course some have flown the coop for the "Land" as you say. Can't say I blame them when you get overun with folks who don't care. Once you start building overly affordable housing you will attract folks who just don't have the same pride your parents did.
 
Herbert77060 said:
Mississippi State's head football coach just got 2.6 million dollars for four years after a 5-7 season.....It must be nice.
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Wrong again.

Mississippi State is 8-4 this year and they are in a New Year's Day bowl game.

HBCU SIDs can't even keep the school website accurate and updated. Yet, you expect them to recruit some of the best athletes in the world when their job is not to recruit in the first place.

Ridiculous.
 
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kendrick said:
I'm not sure. What I do know is that a good portion of the bowl payout is used to supplement coaches bonuses.
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Probably not since a lot of these coaches salaries are subsidized by their separate Athletic Foundations. Most of these coaches at these state schools only get a small portion of their salary paid by the school.
 



again...an SID is not going to get a kid drafted like those old days as stats are on the computer among other things....these scouts know about the talent at the HBCUs and will make their rounds in spring ball, summer camp and throughout the season....they'll request tape of the games they want and go from there....plus, the coaching staff has an NFL liasion before you even get to the SID now........if anytihing, that's easy

the biggest thing is promoting our players for postseason awards on a national level as worrying about the NFL is secondary.....people knew about Bruce Eugene and you see at the end of the day he was a free agent guy by his hometown team...

JR.....some parts off Trammel Fresno look worse after 10 years than my area ever did......they built cheaply made Row Houses which have been foreclosed already so imagine how that looks and what will happen when that area begins to go down (if it ain't already)......our area never really suffered as my street has lot of original owners but the people who sold their homes sold them to investors who will only rent them out which kills the values and families coming in....if I had to buy tomorrow I do better bulldozing a house down there and rebuilding as I have better access to Houston like the folks do in Bellarie...

my thing...if we see the element coming.....why run? Do something about it....one thing I've noticed the "element" will respect folks who watch them as opposed to running from them....

Will I ever live to see 300 kids in a black band in Houston (below) where games were packed every week? Black folks in Houston now weather be apart of something they never created rather create something or build on something they built

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Since you are bringing up Willowridge....looks like they are trying to close it.
 
kendrick said:
It helps when your biggest booster is the CEO of Nike.
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True, but it helps when you sellout a 85,000 - 100,000 stadium every home game. I bet a majority of those boosters salaries are comparable to ours, it's just they give back and they have many donors/members of booster club/foundations. Until we learn to give back and attend games we will never have a HBCU playing FBS football.
 
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Fiyah said:
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Since you are bringing up Willowridge....looks like they are trying to close it.
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Yep but I hope it will be blocked. They just built an 11th high school in FBISD within 2 miles of 2 other high schools. They don't have to close Willowridge, they were planning to empty it by dilluting the population with all the new schools.
 
Geez louise FBISD. :smh: Goodness...

At any rate, this situation regarding choices is a lot more complex than folx make it out to be. This was my 2nd stint w/ dealing w/ seed recruitment and 1st observing the athletic recruitment deal and I left the whole ordeal 100% in the hands of my youngers. It's not my job to dictate to them regarding a choice they make for it is they who have to gain and matricualte about their educational process so they can achieve whatever objective they seek for they are living their lives for themselves, not anyone else, inclusive of me or their mother. I pushed nothing on them outside of offering a few words of wisdom on things to consider when choosing for themselves. Integration was that double-edged sword that cut going by opening doors and opportunities and then on the return swing by closing others. From what I've surmised lately, it depends upon an individuals wants/desires/objectives and what they're willing to put up w/ and deliver that determines the exact route they'll take.

When I think of PV competing to recruit and retain students, I think of PV competing against aTm, ut-austin, uofh, tcu, txtech, et al schools locally and consider those schools our rivals, esp aTm-B/CS :read:. So, I don't see other schools as competing rivals, including SWAC schools. :read:
 
I can understand that. I have no problem with those who produce getting paid. If they are responsible for generating the cash (ala winning) I have no issue with them getting some of what they are responsible for bringing in.


kendrick said:
I'm not sure. What I do know is that a good portion of the bowl payout is used to supplement coaches bonuses.
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That does seem like the plan.



jag4life said:
Yep but I hope it will be blocked. They just built an 11th high school in FBISD within 2 miles of 2 other high schools. They don't have to close Willowridge, they were planning to empty it by dilluting the population with all the new schools.
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I agree....somehow, some way we have to get our attendance numbers up. I don't know when it happened but something changed to make our folk stop coming to our games. Admittedly, I have only been back in college sports for about 10 years but I remember the late '60's and throughout the '70's when we packed stadiums. The only place we could play JSU, Grambling, Southern, PV and others was the Astrodome or Rice Stadium. The Greek organizations were out in force....it was something to see. One thing that sold me on attending sTu was attending the Grambling v sTu game in '69 I think it was and the Astrodome was standing room only. I mean Black folk everywhere. The Ocean did a tribute to Dr. King and while they played 'We Shall Overcome' Dr. King's I Have a Dream was on the screen....the entire stadium stood with clinched fists (except for the caucasians...they just stood) raised. At that time it was the largest crowd ever to watch a football game in the Astrodome (pro or college). It was a magical moment for me. I still get chills remembering it.

But to your point about giving back. I use to work with a guy in the mid eighties who graduated from TX A&M....he made a point every year to send them a check. I never asked how much but I guess that wasn't the point anyway.



TXSU said:
True, but it helps when you sellout a 85,000 - 100,000 stadium every home game. I bet a majority of those boosters salaries are comparable to ours, it's just they give back and they have many donors/members of booster club/foundations. Until we learn to give back and attend games we will never have a HBCU playing FBS football.
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the band fan said:
again...an SID is not going to get a kid drafted like those old days as stats are on the computer among other things....these scouts know about the talent at the HBCUs and will make their rounds in spring ball, summer camp and throughout the season....they'll request tape of the games they want and go from there....plus, the coaching staff has an NFL liasion before you even get to the SID now........if anytihing, that's easy

the biggest thing is promoting our players for postseason awards on a national level as worrying about the NFL is secondary.....people knew about Bruce Eugene and you see at the end of the day he was a free agent guy by his hometown team...

JR.....some parts off Trammel Fresno look worse after 10 years than my area ever did......they built cheaply made Row Houses which have been foreclosed already so imagine how that looks and what will happen when that area begins to go down (if it ain't already)......our area never really suffered as my street has lot of original owners but the people who sold their homes sold them to investors who will only rent them out which kills the values and families coming in....if I had to buy tomorrow I do better bulldozing a house down there and rebuilding as I have better access to Houston like the folks do in Bellarie...

my thing...if we see the element coming.....why run? Do something about it....one thing I've noticed the "element" will respect folks who watch them as opposed to running from them....

Will I ever live to see 300 kids in a black band in Houston (below) where games were packed every week? Black folks in Houston now weather be apart of something they never created rather create something or build on something they built

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Oh I agree with you about the neighborhoods. My ole area in Teal Run is a prime example. Like you said they built cheaply and hence the more affordable housing for some of the element as you call them. I think folks fear people these days and not like the old days where you had to tow the line in a respectable black neighborhood. Same thing is happening all over the country. I used to go the Willowridge games back in the 90s and was always impressed with the Willowridge pride. Reminded me how it was when I went to HS in Jackson at Callaway. Middle Class black folks handling their business but all were working class folks who had struggled to do better. Then the next wave of blacks just didn't have that kind of pride. My HS went through the same thing as North Jackson aint what it used to be. The upwardly mobile black folks moved to Madison County and went to Noise Talka's school Madison Central. That area became the new North Jackson. Just like the folks in Ft.Bend now have moved as you say the different "Lands" Pearland had hardly any new neighborhoods when I lived in Ft. Bend. Just had that nice community with the golf course where none of US were living. Friendswood was the same. Now Pearland done exploded all around 288. Everytime I come back to H-town I just SMH at all the development. But don't worry I can already see some of the Pearland areas although new.....will suffer the same fate down the line. Not all of the areas but some. Houston area just has so much land that developers can just keep on building farther and farther away. Soon Lake Jackson will be a Houston Suburb. LOL.
 
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