"The Top Ten Sports Schools"

College Search & Selection
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<p>Stooge…</p>

<p>shouldn’t the stats be out already for the 2008-2009 or 2009-10 school years?</p>

<p>Edit to add…found 2008-2009 school year</p>

<p>Here is a look at the 2008-2009 fiscal year college athletic department revenue generation numbers from the power conferences in the NCAA. I have listed the Top 26, as Kansas checked in at 26 and was right behind 25th ranked Duke, two basketball schools. Also listed are the football revenues.</p>

<p>Iowa checks in at #15 on total athletic department revenues and #18 among football only revenues. Iowa is within $2 million of being #11 on this list.</p>

<p>SCHOOL………………FOOTBALL REVENUE…….TOTAL AD REV</p>

<p>1.Texas……………………$87,583,986……………$138,459,149
2.Ohio State………………$68,196,195……………$119,859,607
3.Florida……………………$66,150,063……………$108,309,060
4.Alabama…………………$64,606,392……………$103,934,873
5.LSU………………………$61,868,953……………$100,077,884
6.Penn State…………….$61,767,717……………$95,978,243
7.Michigan…………………$52,246,025………….$95,193,030
8.Tennessee…………….$42,805,360……………$92,524,125
9.Wisconsin………………$40,005,517……………$89,842,749
10.Auburn…………………$58,618,819………….$87,001,416
11.Georgia…………………$65,218,406………….$81,496,357
12.Oklahoma………………$42,638,431…………$81,487,835
13.Notre Dame……………$56,929,397…………$81,088,368
14.Southern Cal………….$35,203,483…………$80,151,282
15.Iowa…………………….$38,896,234………….$79,521,143
16.South Carolina……….$57,118,519………….$76,254,236
17.Michigan State……….$43,506,725………….$75,624,811
18.Nebraska……………… $55,226,605………….$74,881,383
19.Stanford…………………$14,178,256………….$74,695,254
20.Florida State………….$24,877,536………….$74,417,324</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.hawkeyenation.com/football/ncaa-top-revenue-producers[/url]”>http://www.hawkeyenation.com/football/ncaa-top-revenue-producers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Dumb question…is the football rev numbers included in the Ad Rev numbers?</p>

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<p>bclintock, we are talking about individual schools here, not entire athletic entities. I’ve already acknowledged that for the vast majority of D1 schools hockey makes more money than baseball. But if we are to get into specifically TOP athletic programs, which is what the aim of this thread is, citing general numbers having to deal with 1) general revenue and 2) specific attendances without looking at the schools that get all the CWS coverage vs. FF coverage (once again, the respective media coverage of both do NOT compare)…I would take a gander and say that the baseball programs LSU, UCLA, SCar, et al. generate more revenue than the big hockey programs. South Carolina baseball was basically on ESPN continuously for a whole month this year. You can’t beat that kind of exposure (and the benefits reaped from it).</p>

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<p>“South Carolina baseball was basically on ESPN continuously for a whole month this year. You can’t beat that kind of exposure (and the benefits reaped from it).”</p>

<p>It was? I had no idea!</p>

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<p>

RESPECTABLE?!
You’re delusional…
Football is the biggest sport in college athletics. Men’s basketball is popular in March ONLY (people like office pools). You need to quit riding Duke’s ball****. I can understand devotion to your school but really, you’re delusional</p>

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<h2>Our football team was a respectable 5-7 last year ~ lesdiables</h2>

<p>HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH</p>

<p>How the hell is that respectable? You call a LOSING season respectable? </p>

<p>If that’s respectable, then what in your opinion is bad?</p>

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<p>haha what a joke, maybe for duke that is respectable. making a bowl game is respectable, not being close to .500</p>

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Same with UCLA, although I guess that explains why you in particular never took care to notice.</p>

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<p>Aw, some of you must be upset that your basketball teams never make the NCAA tournament and never get past the first round. I’ll take a middling football team if that means I can have the best college basketball program in the modern era.</p>

<p>Hope some of ya’ll are enjoy being perennial Fiesta Bowl or the Meinecke Car Bowl contenders or whatever while I’m still relishing Duke’s NCAA basketball championship.</p>

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<p>It only takes two great players to win big at basketball. In football you need at least 10 or more and another 10 good players.</p>

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<p>Lesdiables,</p>

<p>That’s fine, and you have the right to feel that way. However, you aren’t going to get onto too many top 10 lists if you are great at one revenue sport but terrible at the other, more important, one.</p>

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<p>Absolutely. And as you see from these numbers, football is king, producing most of the athletic department revenue at just about every school in the land. In fact, the numbers you present in post #81 probably understate football’s role. At Michigan, for example, the FY 2010 athletic budget shows $37.7 million in revenues from “spectator admissions,” of which $33.7 million is from football, $2.0 million from basketball, $1.8 million from hockey, and a modest $186,000 from all other sports combined. Similarly, the budget shows $20 million in “conference distributions” of which at least $16 to $17 million is football-related, with most of the rest from basketball. The total athletic department budget includes items like “licensing royalties” (from team logo paraphernalia), concessions, parking, and corporate sponsorships, the bulk of which are football-related but these items aren’t attributed specifically to football. So in Michigan’s case, I’d estimate that perhaps 90% of the entire athletic budget is directly or indirectly attributable to football. That percentage may be slightly lower at some other schools that don’t have 110,000+ seat stadiums and the Big Ten’s television contracts, but it’s generally going to be upwards of 70 to 80% of the athletic budget at just about any FBS-level (Div. 1A) school. In terms of revenue, ALL other sports are “minor” compared to football.</p>

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<p>Football pays for everything.</p>

<p>A good example of how unimportant basketball is (huge college basketball fan here) is when the recent “seismic shift” nearly took place in college football. Conferences were realigning, and it appeared that some teams would be left out of major conferences, including current schools.</p>

<p>The most major was Kansas, who nearly became conference-less or dropped into a mid-major when it looked like the B12 was collapsing. Kansas had no other conferences knocking (no BCS conferences) and things didn’t look good at all! </p>

<p>Fans were saying, “But Kansas is a basketball powerhouse, one of the best in the country!” Well, that’s true - they do, but it doesn’t matter. What matters is football, and the willingness to toss out Kansas just to gain a market or better football program was very obvious.</p>

<p>When it comes down to it, basketball is a minor player, although it enjoys incredible fanbases.</p>

<p>Football.Pays.For.Everything.</p>

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<p>Aw, some of you must be upset that your basketball teams never make the NCAA tournament and never get past the first round. I’ll take a middling football team if that means I can have the best college basketball program in the modern era.</p>

<h2>Hope some of ya’ll are enjoy being perennial Fiesta Bowl or the Meinecke Car Bowl contenders or whatever while I’m still relishing Duke’s NCAA basketball championship. ~lesdiables</h2>

<p>The Fiesta Bowl is a BCS Bowl…which is a huge deal. You really don’t know anything about football, huh?</p>

<p>Anyways, this isn’t a discussion about who has the best basketball program. </p>

<p>When talking about college sports, either you have football or you drop to the second tier.</p>

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<p>^I disagree. I think college basketball is bigger than college football with regards to school participation and interest level among various states.</p>

<p>The NFL is HUGE, HUGE, HUGE and completely dwarfs the NBA. College football and college basketball are on the same level.</p>

<p>NCAA championship game>BCS National Championship (rigged and not credible due to BCS regional favoritism anyway)</p>

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<p>^</p>

<p>College football is much bigger. Trust me, I’m as big a basketball fan as the next guy, but as far as school participation goes, college football kills it. As far as interest level goes, there is a reason the SEC was able to sign a multi-billion dollar deal with a TV network (forget which one), and it has everything to do with football and nothing to do with basketball. In the college sports world, football is king.</p>

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<p>“NCAA championship game>BCS National Championsh”</p>

<p>this might be true, but football rules the regular season. i think some people are exaggerating how much more popular football is true. i think at schools where neither sport is major, then football might be bigger, but otherwise i dont think football is much bigger</p>

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<p>College basketball is nowhere near as big as football. It’s not even close. The NCAA tournament is huge, but the basketball season leading up to it is not.</p>

<p>Case in point. The Pac-10 men’s basketball tournament (a postseason event), held in Los Angeles, features both USC and UCLA every year. Yet even in years that UCLA was in contention for a #1 seed in the NCAA tournament, the arena would never be filled and would struggle to be even half filled except for the last game.</p>

<p>In a year or two the Pac-10 (Pac-12?) will have a football title game. Say the game was held in Los Angeles at the Rose Bowl or Coliseum, and UCLA or USC was in it contending for the title, it’s a definite sellout of 90,000+.</p>

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<p>Just look at the revenues and attendance between the sports and it will show how much bigger college football is.</p>

<p>I’m sure basketball is bigger at Duke, but as a whole, basketball can’t compete with football.</p>

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<p>I’d put it this way. If they were breaking up the ACC and looking for teams to join the B10 or the SEC, Duke would not even make the list.</p>

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<p>@barrons</p>

<p>To be completely fair to Dook, during the conference shake-up this summer, UNC and Dook were widely believed to have been at the top of the SEC’s wish list ( [Report:</a> UNC and Duke on SEC’s “dream” list - WRALSportsFan.com](<a href=“http://www.wralsportsfan.com/voices/blogpost/7763254/]Report:”>Report: UNC and Duke on SEC's "dream" list :: WRALSportsFan.com) ). Of course UNC and Dook would never leave the ACC because of other conferences’ lower academic standards, but it’s definitely a nice thought.</p>