BOGACZYK: Herd Good Fit Financially in C-USA

[Harry]

Really good recent C-USA budget info found within here:

http://www.herdzone.com/genrel/012615aaa.html

[NorthTexan95]

Good info.

[VideoEagle]

Hard budget numbers are something often overlooked by fans even though strong donations by the fan base at larger programs is a bigger part of their budget than tv. We should be the largest source of money, not athletic fees or tv contracts.

[untjim1995]

Interesting read--we spent $24.6 million on sports last year, ahead of FAU, Charlotte, Southern Miss, and La Tech in CUSA, as well as Kent State, Toledo, Eastern Michigan, Northern Illinois, and Bowling Green in the MAC. I'm going to assume we are outspending the majority of the SBC by quite a bit, as well. Those AAC budgets really show you the difference between our level of G5 and those in the AAC and the MWC. I would surmise that UConn has a larger budget than a lot of P5s right now, since their costs were over $70 million last year--of course, they turned that into another men's basketball championship and another women's basketball championship, too. That's why they will be in the ACC or B1G fairly soon.

[oldguystudent]

Hard budget numbers are something often overlooked by fans even though strong donations by the fan base at larger programs is a bigger part of their budget than tv. We should be the largest source of money, not athletic fees or tv contracts.

QFT

[VideoEagle]

Interesting read--we spent $24.6 million on sports last year, ahead of FAU, Charlotte, Southern Miss, and La Tech in CUSA, as well as Kent State, Toledo, Eastern Michigan, Northern Illinois, and Bowling Green in the MAC. I'm going to assume we are outspending the majority of the SBC by quite a bit, as well. Those AAC budgets really show you the difference between our level of G5 and those in the AAC and the MWC. I would surmise that UConn has a larger budget than a lot of P5s right now, since their costs were over $70 million last year--of course, they turned that into another men's basketball championship and another women's basketball championship, too. That's why they will be in the ACC or B1G fairly soon.

I agree with much of this, the wasn't anything about MWC a budgets in the article. Maybe I should reread, but I don't remember anything. While the top of the MWC might be equivalent to the top AAC, I doubt the averages are equal. Not with San Jose State, New Mexico and the Nevadas in the mix!