<p>This is a great resource that I came across on another site. It details revenue and expenses for NCAA schools by sport. It is from the Dept of Education, and called the Equity in Athletics Data Analyzer. Once you've selected the school, go to the gray bar to select Coaching Staff and Salaries, Revenue and Expenses and Supplemental. You can compare sports budgets from pretty much any D1, D2 or D3 school as well as conferences, etc....</p>
<p>So if you are being recruited by several schools, you can see how much they spent on the sport as well as per athlete. You can also get a feel for where the money is coming in....usually football, and basketball. I just think it is a fantastic resource, and wanted to share with the group.</p>
<p>Wow - what an interesting find! I compared my 2 kids’ colleges, USC and Pomona. Average per player expense for women’s soccer: $14,000+ at SC, around 400 at Pomona. That says a lot :)</p>
<p>I too am surprised at the disparity in the numbers. A couple schools were in the thousand dollar per player range, several were in the two thousand dollar range, while one was nearly eight thousand dollars. I’m not sure what the numbers mean, maybe different schools include dofferent things in the per player figure.</p>
<p>Looking forward to using this tool
one thing I noted was how few employees were in the sport…meaning paid FTE…
so do these coaches volunteer?</p>
<p>I have wondered how a person who goes to college for one field and does a sport as an aside to their major–ends up going to become an asst coach at a college afterwards…
kwim</p>
<p>These are the numbers that are being reported by the school to the Dept of Education. These are operating numbers, so this the money it takes in with revenue from tickets, sponsors, etc and budgets to the rest of the athletic dept. I’ve noticed there is not a large discrepency between teams within a conference, but there can be a large discrepency between D1 and D3 sports, as well as D1 to D1 depending on the conference. I think a lot of the D1 expenses are tied into travel costs for the revenue generating sports.</p>
<p>fogfog - i’ve heard that a lot of the D1 and D3 asst and part-time coaches have other full time & flexible jobs. i can’t speak to D2 as i don’t have a lot of history there. Most of the D1 head coaches are full time, and you can see that reflected in the numbers.</p>
<p>In my mind, this tool has a lot of value if you are comparing recruited schools across D1 and D3, conferences within D1 or D3 (ie ACC vs CAA vs Ivy) as well as schools within a conference. You get a sense of where things fit. For example, UVA spends $11.4K per baseball player. William and Mary spends $4.9K per baseball player and Princeton spends $3.4K according to last years figures. All schools are Division 1, but the difference between all of them is pretty substantial. Also, the expectations of the programs are vastly different. Money talks.</p>
<p>Does anyone know where to find (or how to figure it out from this data) the per student athletic scholarship average in each sport at a given school? This tool gives the total amount of athletic aid for the entire sports program and one can assume a bulk goes toward the men’s football and basketball teams in most cases. It would be helpful to compare how much a certain program (let’s say women’s tennis at Flagship U) has available to spend on scholarships and what the average award is.</p>
<p>TheGFG - I don’t think you will find the amount of $$ scholarships available to a specific school/sport on any website or public forum. I think that information is kept close to vest in the Athletic Dept. I’ve seen that question asked a few different ways on some other sites, and that was the answer.</p>
<p>One thing that surprised me was how expensive certain sports are per person to operate. A university in our area just dropped their entire men’s and women’s track and field program and replaced it with golf. That seems odd having just seen that T & F is usually pretty cheap on a per student basis when compared with golf, though I suppose overall they’d save money based on the size of the program.</p>
<p>Wow, that’s fascinating! Texas spends over $170,000 per basketball player, $160,000 per tennis player, $49,000 per football player, and $4,800 per track runner (men). Track’s definitely the cheapest per player by far.</p>