New database tracks athletic spending at universities

[cvsooner]

Holy cow...OU spends $258,000 a year on football scholarship players.

Alabama spends $342,000.

The mind boggles.

http://spendingdatabase.knightcommission.org/

[8timechamps]

Holy cow...OU spends $258,000 a year on football scholarship players.

Alabama spends $342,000.

The mind boggles.

http://spendingdatabase.knightcommission.org/

That's per player. Pretty amazing.

[cvsooner]

Yes. Per player. Per year. Kinda puts Stoops salary into perspective a bit more. He's managing racehorses....

Ohio State is tops on the spenders...$380,000 per player. Woo.

[picasso]

Yeah but but they should get paid!

[cvsooner]

So a four-year scholarship is worth $1 million. Wow!

[8timechamps]

Yeah but but they should get paid!

Yeah, it kinda puts that into perspective too. There's nothing "free" about what they're already receiving!

[8timechamps]

So a four-year scholarship is worth $1 million. Wow!

I would love to see a line item breakdown. When they figure in training, room & board, access to facilities, etc. I'm sure it's pretty accurate.

[cvsooner]

Especially when you compare it to expenditures on other athletes and on academic outlays per student.

[rock on sooner]

That's nuckin' futs! Ifn it's true..WOW!

[8timechamps]

Especially when you compare it to expenditures on other athletes and on academic outlays per student.

Thanks a lot for showing me this site...the rest of the night is gone! (I love this stuff)

[BoulderSooner79]

Holy cow...OU spends $258,000 a year on football scholarship players.

Alabama spends $342,000.

The mind boggles.

http://spendingdatabase.knightcommission.org/

We have a football scholarship spending gap!

[cvsooner]

It's only up through 2011, which is why they're showing Mizzou and Colorado still in the Big 12, but it's still really interesting stuff. Here's what it costs us to have a national title contending football program...which is why tickets are so danged expensive at the stadium and why the schools are so dependent upon TV rights and broadcasting.

[cvsooner]

Thanks a lot for showing me this site...the rest of the night is gone! (I love this stuff)

Sorry. I think? :friendly_wink:

[EatLeadCommie]

Given Grambling's recent troubles, I had to look them up...

$24,654

The FCS median is 36k.

[Eielson]

I would love to see a line item breakdown. When they figure in training, room & board, access to facilities, etc. I'm sure it's pretty accurate.

Yeah, I'd like to see the breakdown as well. Is it only the money that goes toward the athlete, or is it simply the total cost of money put into the football program divided by the number of scholarship athletes? If it's the latter, then that is a very misleading number. Things like stadium renovations that allow them to make more money in ticket sales benefit the players very little, if at all. I didn't look too hard at it, so they may have taken that into account.

[DrZaius]

There is an interesting correlation in the numbers. Most conferences the teams that seem to be at or near the top is the team that spends the most money. Very interesting.

[DrZaius]

If it's the latter, then that is a very misleading number. Things like stadium renovations that allow them to make more money in ticket sales benefit the players very little, if at all. I didn't look too hard at it, so they may have taken that into account.

This probably also deals with perceived values of services etc... Interesting numbers but if they did show you line breakdowns they would not be able to claim they spent 158,000.00 on a single athlete.

[DrZaius]

Fexas has nearly 300,000.00 in debt compared to OU's 90,000.00

[stoopified]

WOW

[jkjsooner]

There is an interesting correlation in the numbers. Most conferences the teams that seem to be at or near the top is the team that spends the most money. Very interesting.

The question is what is the cause and what is the effect. Are the teams winning because they're spending so much money or are they spending so much money because they are winning.

My guess is that it's a combination of both as there is obviously some positive feedback in both directions.

[badger]

Given Grambling's recent troubles, I had to look them up...

$24,654

The FCS median is 36k.

I think the report's time period was before their state funding tanked and they forced players to bus to long games and let their facilities go to crap... so it wouldn't surprise me if that amount is less for them now, hence the rebellion.

[cvsooner]

Yeah, I'd like to see the breakdown as well. Is it only the money that goes toward the athlete, or is it simply the total cost of money put into the football program divided by the number of scholarship athletes? If it's the latter, then that is a very misleading number. Things like stadium renovations that allow them to make more money in ticket sales benefit the players very little, if at all. I didn't look too hard at it, so they may have taken that into account.

The 'About' section has a summary and something of a breakdown of costs.

http://spendingdatabase.knightcommission.org/about

[OSUAggie]

Yes. Per player. Per year. Kinda puts Stoops salary into perspective a bit more. He's managing racehorses....

Ohio State is tops on the spenders...$380,000 per player. Woo.

Stoops' salary (and others on staff) contributes 111k per player per year of that "spending".