SEC Athletic Department Budgets
- Posted by capstonereport on July 16th, 2007 filed in General
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UPDATE: The Clarion Ledger story is no longer available online, so the Capstone Report contacted every SEC athletic department and created a new story and a new graph on the 2008-2009 SEC athletic department budgets.
Everyone knows college athletics is big business. Just how big changes with every tv contract. The Clarion Ledger provided a snapshot of every athletic department’s budget and the role private foundations play in funding the programs. To put it into perspective, I created a graph of the SEC schools based on the information in the Clarion Ledger report.
There is little very shocking in the numbers: the Mississippi schools trail the rest of the SEC in money spent on athletics. For almost all schools, the private foundations raised from one-third to one-half the total athletic department budgets. The biggest exception to that rule was Vanderbilt. Vandy raised only about $2.2 million from donations, according to the Clarion Ledger report.
September 5th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
[...] Gamecocks 2007 Fan Donations: 20-30 million (estimated .33 to .5 of total budget) Commoders 2007 Fan Donation: >>2.2 Million dollars<< (source) [...]
March 19th, 2009 at 9:33 am
You’re leaving something out. Ole Miss’ athletic budget is several million above MSU’s.
March 19th, 2009 at 9:36 am
Not according to the Clarion Ledger report I used to create the graphic almost two years ago.
March 19th, 2009 at 10:19 am
Ole Miss athletic budget $48.2 million
http://www.olemisssports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?&SPSID=13231&SPID=756&DB_OEM_ID=2600&ATCLID=1282813
March 19th, 2009 at 10:46 am
Those numbers were about five months after the article from the Clarion Ledger, which used I think 2006 numbers.
I’d expect the numbers to be even higher now as all SEC schools have seen growth in revenue and spending.
March 19th, 2009 at 10:59 am
This is so old now, the Clarion Ledger report isn’t even available on their website anymore (went to check so I could review their fiscal year information). Their report was likely based on 2006 budgets, but could have been even 2005 numbers.