TCU football a "Top ten spender"

[joshjones1]

sports.espn.go.com/ncf/bowls10/news/story?id=5970794


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

[Fred Noonan]

Wow. The Oregon professor's comment that the University spends $150,000 per athlete while it costs $20,000 to educate one student is thought provoking. As is the balance of the article.

The Fred Noonan School of Navigation.

[sandiegoeric]

After reviewing these numbers, where does Aztec football fall in?

[firemedic619]

Dec 30, 2010 19:21:17 GMT -8 sandiegoeric said:

After reviewing these numbers, where does Aztec football fall in?

SDSU's Football budget is $9,584,060. Now compare that to the big spenders and you can easily see the disparity.

SDSU's ENTIRE Athletic Budget is $32,082,827. Now compare that figure to the big spenders above for football only.

For those wondering where I got my numbers from:

ope.ed.gov/athletics/index.aspx

The figures used in the ESPN article were obtained from the government website above, which are the numbers that the schools themselves send in, obviously.

Crazy, huh?

[firemedic619]

The weird part about the Equity In Athletics website is how they don't match the numbers provided from SDSU on their own website, namely this .PDF file:

bfa.sdsu.edu/~budfin/1011/1011AthlAthleticsBudgetSummary.pdf

[Village Aztec]

We have so many students and TCU does not.

Our advantage is our scholarships cost less or we could not compete. Our recruiting expense is also low.
We do not need as much money to run our program so some BCS and TV money would go along way.

[firemedic619]

Dec 30, 2010 20:52:10 GMT -8 Village Aztec said:

We have so many students and TCU does not.

TCU is also a private institution.