🏈 money in college sports - worth the read

[planomateo]

There are a ton of things worth quoting from this...They take data from a few websites and put it into some interesting charts.

I haven't checked the data, but they are suggesting that the amount of money a program spends is almost the best predictor of the ability to win.

The program that spends more on football wins 63.4% of BCS-level football games.

(they only compared BCS to BCS game)

The growth of spending on college football at the BCS level has been meteoric over the past decade. Football spending increased by 2/3 between 2003 and 2009, making an average annual increase of 10%. That's faster than health care costs, that's faster than college tuition, that's way beyond inflation. An athletic director at a BCS program today is presiding over a multi-million dollar operation, and every one of them is assuming that they will have to support double the current level of football spending within the decade. And that's just to stay even with everybody else.

The subsidies some schools get is amazing, Rutgers $135M, USF $74M, Oregon State $74M...wow.

http://www.blackheartgoldpants.com/...ice-of-a-victory-in-big-time-college-football

 

[TerryP]

Definitely some truth here.

On the front page of the site here you'll find an article on Lee Davis, a former employee of our Athletic Department who worked with our recruiting efforts. She was recently hired at Miss. St. Now, she's doing the same job we had four people doing at Bama.

We have the money for four, MSU doesn't.