NCAA Report on Div I Finances

[TexasTerror]

Actual report - http://ncaapublications.com/p-4237-2004-2010-revenues-and-expenses.aspx

Link to story produced by NCAA -

http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/public/ncaa/resources/latest+news/2011/june/report+shows+widening+financial+gap+in+division+i

[Lehigh Football Nation]

I'm going to dig through these reports. Boy, more data to write and blog about! xlolx

Two things that leap out at me:


Two line items make up over 50 percent of total expenses for [FCS]. Salaries and benefits at 32 percent and grants-in-aid at 26 percent are the dominant expense lines. The former follows the national trend of tuition increases, while the latter is apparently market driven. Thus, the efforts to control athletics costs are frustrated by a lack of control over the largest two expense lines. No other expense line item is significant.

Out-of-control athletics salaries and scholarship costs are more than 50% of the athletics budget. This is true of all of Division I, but on average it's more than a quarter of the athletics department's costs. And in FCS football, the proportion of scholarship cost of expenses is much, much higher - way past 50%.


[D-I non-football] median generated revenues fell by 5.1 percent from 2009, after seeing a 1.2 percent decrease from 2008 to 2009.

This is extraordinary. At the FCS level, revenues increased, on average, by 14% over the same time frame, and it also increased over the growth in expenses. In contrast at non-FB institutions, revenues fell while expenses increased. According to these statistics, it pays to have a football team - even an FCS one.