USA Today: Athletic department revenue rankings

[Lexhead]

Here's a piece telling us what many of us already knew, or at least suspected: Head to head financial comparisons are nearly worthless because of the many different ways that universities handle these numbers.

http://www.teamspeedkills.com/2013/5...=articlebottom

What is interesting was the remark that "The USA Today also makes a big deal about subsidies, but if you read beyond the first couple of paragraphs, you find that "subsidies" can vary wildly from school to school. Florida public schools must follow an arcane state law about sales tax and spending on women's sports that results in a "subsidy". Texas A&M athletics' "subsidy" was an interest-free loan from the school to bridge the gap spanning from when it lost Big 12 payouts to when it received its first SEC payouts. For most schools with a subsidy, a student fee is part or all of it. Those are typically voted on by student governments, so they don't happen without the students' consent on some level."

Also, the remark that some universities take a percentage of athletic donations for the academic side put a new light on T-Joe's alleged theft of $1M from the UL athletinc budget. That isn't to say that I am OK with that move, only that it is apparantly more common than I originally believed.

[Hammer58]

Yes, we are E-V-I-L.....we are the villains. Remember the '08 IBowl?...we kept you out! We cook the books, we lied to get into USA. We're not even a Tier 1 school.... We faked that too. Does that make you feel better?

Dont worry, we still remember '08 and the blockbuster I-Bowl ratings in Chicago.

[Boomer]

Well evil spelled backwards is live --you take the V out for Villains and you have LIE (a little humor and now the truth)---Of course you guys cooked the books and although I will give you a higher ranking on this particular Tier status---you are not mentioned on others---What part of Dooley's keeping us out of the Indy Bowl is incorrect??? You most certainly lied re facilities which STILL haven't even started in contradiction to the shovel ready lie to CUSA----Don't get me started with the entire UNAUDITED Budget of LTUR!!!