SMU, TCU and UNT: What do they spend on athletics?

[Skipper]

Southern Methodist University in Dallas and Texas Christian University in Fort Worth are both moving to new athletic conferences where they will lag far behind some of the schools they'll face in terms of athletics expenditures.

TCU has the largest expense in 2010-2011 of three at $56,245,071, according to the database. The Horned Frogs spent $22,608,182 on their highly successful football team. The largest athletic expenditure in the Big 12 was UT Austin at $125,978,117 -- which happened to be the largest of any university in the nation.

SMU, which has gone to successive bowl games under coach June Jones, had expenses of $37,471,381, much less than the University of Louisville's $83.7 million -- tops among its new Big East foes. SMU spent $12,569,957 on football.

UNT had an athletics expense of $22,417,616, while the University of Denver had the largest expense in the Sun Belt Conference at $24,629,517. UNT spent $6,824,909 on its football program.

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[FirefightnRick]

Most everyone lags far behind tU, including most pro franchises, I suspect?

Rick

[kalebschumann]

Why is Denver's budget so big?

Travel expenses?

[El Paso Eagle]

OK, I'll ask ... How does Denver, with no Football, spend the most????

[BeanCounterGrad'03]

OK, I'll ask ... How does Denver, with no Football, spend the most????

They do have hockey, gymnastics and skiing. I imagine their largest spend is on hockey.

EDIT: also lacrosse

Edited February 22, 2012 by BeanCounterGrad'03

[GrandGreen]

All submitted athletic revenue and expense numbers are very suspect, there is very little oversight. Remember though that a private like SMU is going to show much higher expenses due to diffences in tuition costs. In rough numbers, tuition and fee cost at SMU for instance, is going to be roughly $30,000 per athlete a year more than NT and could account for almost half the gap in football expenditures between SMU and NT

[GrayEagle]

OK, I'll ask ... How does Denver, with no Football, spend the most????

Denver is a very expensive school. Student aid at Denver totals about $8.5 million dollars compared to about $3 million at North Texas. Also, they have ice hockey and lacrosse which combined are about as expensive as football. Lastly, they fund three more sports than we do.

[Baby Arm!]

Most everyone lags far behind tU, including most pro franchises, I suspect?

Rick

tU? I had no idea Tulsa had such a large athletic budget

[WKUYG]

A better more actuate break down of a schools budget would be here http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/ncaa-finances.htm'>http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/ncaa-finances.htm and there's no way University of Louisville spent 83 million.b UofL spent 38 million the year before they went to the Big East then it jumped to 48 million, 55 million stayed there for 2 years then increased to 58 million in 2009 then 61 million in 2010...NO WAY it jumps 22 million in one year.

There's no way possible for that to happen.

Private schools are not listed

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/ncaa-finances.htm'>http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/ncaa-finances.htm

Edited February 22, 2012 by WKUYG