Sorry Mac, but I had to go look up that article in Forbes. 1. ND--97M overall and 23.5 to Athletics 2. Texas 3. UGA--84M and 42.9 Athletics 5. Florida--76M and 35.1 7. Bama--70M and 26.7 Athletics with a ton going to the community 8. Tenn spends more on athletics than Bama 10. LSU--66M, 20 athletics, 5.1 to university,same as Bama to community 11. Auburn--66M, 30.1 to athletics 13. South Carolina--57M Thanks Geaux 5000, great article.:thumb: The Most Valuable College Football Teams
if anyone is interested. The dept of education has a website where you can find all this kind of stuff out, filter it by whatever criteria you want, etc... its sorta interesting. As far as revenues go, their numbers are similar but slightly different than Forbes. A few teams switch place. Here's the LINK if you're interested.
Terry, My comments are really meant for all schools, not simply Alabama. Whenever a school embarks upon these upgrade programs costs will rise, as must revenue. Money doesn't just flow into department coffers, it is raised via a variety of methods, methodically calculated. Here's my advice. Go take some snapshots of the existing stadium, make a note of current fund raising vehicles, and consider the existing streams of commercial sponsor revenue. Next, come back in two or three years. You will find more advertising, higher ticket prices, double the number of donor extraction schemes and donor events, and sponsors for everything but the space on the bottom of the urinals. I stand by my comments. Give it 25 years or so, and some mascot somewhere will take the hit, becoming roadkill in the race for sponsors. What might happen first, however, may be something like a handheld device for stadium spectators similar to NASCAR. Such steps will be needed. What do you think an SEC coach will command then, $50 million for 5 years? $100 million? These costs are rising faster than inflation and faster even then higher ed budgets.
I would love for the networks to add night games too. "Saturday night under the lights" is a time-honored tradition at LSU, and I don't understand why the networks refuse to take advantage of it. Actually, I do. It is $$$$$$. They will have night games just as soon as they think there is money in it for them.
When Saban got his contract making him the highest paid coach in the nation, his salary was still in the national mainstream. I don't believe it was not that much higher than Stoops. It certainly did not create a new benchmark for coaching salaries, as did the Alabama contract did.
Even on Lubbock talk radio the other night a former TTU coach was talking about playing games at LSU; daytime, a good atmosphere, nighttime, another world. And the games are more fun at night if you have to see it on TV.
