Unfortunately, Calhoun's numbers seem to be a little off. First, he didn't say that the men's basketball program
netted $12 million for the university. There are these things called expenses — uniforms and travel and wax for the floor at the Gampel Pavilion. In fact, as with most big college hoops programs, the expenses are quite substantial. It was Brian Foley of
The College Baseball Blog who took a look at the Department of Education's
Equity in Athletics Data Analysis site and gathered some numbers, and they're pretty interesting. UConn's men's basketball program brought in $7,332,214 last season, according to the site. A nice sum, but not nearly the $12 million Calhoun mentioned (four times).
And now
further down the chart we see that the men's program had $6,009,728 in expenses. Unless I'm reading this wrong, that's a difference of $1,324,486, which is less than Calhoun's total salary. I'm not sure where the coach's $12 million figure comes from. Are there off-the-books bake sales we're not aware of? These are the numbers the schools report to the Dept. of Education, so they're not likely to be off. Now, the UConn men's and womens' programs combined generate close to $13 million in revenue; perhaps that's what Calhoun was talking about. But how does he get credit for the turnstile-spinning machine that is Lady Huskies? And how does he not mention the expenses side of the ledger?
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