USA Today: Athletic department revenue rankings

[Boomer]

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?

As far as the budget goes I know damn well it wasn't factual----NO audit!!!

[wcd35]

Couple of interesting things:

First off since 2005 we improved our Revenue 57%
From 2011 to 2012 we improved our Revenue 22.5%
Ticket sales Revenue from 2011 to 2012 went from 1.3 to 2.3 Million
Contributions in the same year nearly doubled (that is you and I my freinds)
School funds went up 1.7 million from 2011 to 2012.

If we have a 22.5% increase in 2013 our budget will be at 21.4 Million. I increased my donation yesterday, who is with me.

Good stuff Dave. Numbers are certainly on the up

[CajunRed]

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?

It is ABOUT TIME that at least ONE Redneckie is willing to admit all of that publicly!

[BlueDawg]

The sky is blue, the grass is green, the sun rises in the east and Tech is a bunch of EVIL skalawags

FIFY

[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!!!