UT's Athletic Budget for FY 2009:

[sonofdaxjones]

$125 million. 

Or, about $45-$50 million more than the closest North Division athletic budget, and about $75-$78 million more than what I predict K-State's FY 2009 budget to be. 

[Jesus Shuttlesworth]

$125 million. 

Or, about $45-$50 million more than the closest North Division athletic budget, and about $75-$78 million more than what I predict K-State's FY 2009 budget to be. 

And yet, according to some, it's KSU paying an assistant coach $420K that is the REAL problem with college athletics.  Absurd.

[sonofdaxjones]

Agreed . . . K-State pays its assistant head basketball coach $420K dollars, that's a problem.

Alabama pays its head football coach $4,500,000.00 a year, no problem.  (UL-Monroe 21 Bama 14)

[Brock Landers]

They could spend $125 billion dollars and still be our bitch.  No amount of money in the world will save them from that.

[I_have_purplewood]

Exactly why we'll never be like the Big 10 and the reason they will contniue to be a better conference than us.

[Kat Kid]

Exactly why we'll never be like the Big 10 and the reason they will contniue to be a better conference than us.

Huh?

[I_have_purplewood]

Exactly why we'll never be like the Big 10 and the reason they will contniue to be a better conference than us.

Huh?

While other conferences, such as the Big Ten and Atlantic Coast Conference, split revenue equally, the Big 12 does not.

When the league was formed 11 years ago, the Big Eight was forced to create an incentive for schools such as Texas and Texas A&M to join because those schools had invitations to other leagues. Texas was courted by the Pac-10, A&M by the Southeastern Conference.

What the Big 12 came up with was unequal revenue sharing that would reward the drawing power of traditional football schools.

Currently, all sources of revenue outside of television are shared equally among the 12 schools. Only half of television revenue is shared equally. The other half is placed in an "appearance pool." Schools earn monetary units based on football appearances and on national TV non-conference basketball appearances.

Hence, even though Texas will always have more money to spend because of their size, they continue to even gain better footing financially because they are always on T.V. more and come out ahead on the revenue sharing aspect. 

[Kat Kid]

Exactly why we'll never be like the Big 10 and the reason they will contniue to be a better conference than us.

Huh?

While other conferences, such as the Big Ten and Atlantic Coast Conference, split revenue equally, the Big 12 does not.

When the league was formed 11 years ago, the Big Eight was forced to create an incentive for schools such as Texas and Texas A&M to join because those schools had invitations to other leagues. Texas was courted by the Pac-10, A&M by the Southeastern Conference.

What the Big 12 came up with was unequal revenue sharing that would reward the drawing power of traditional football schools.

Currently, all sources of revenue outside of television are shared equally among the 12 schools. Only half of television revenue is shared equally. The other half is placed in an "appearance pool." Schools earn monetary units based on football appearances and on national TV non-conference basketball appearances.

Hence, even though Texas will always have more money to spend because of their size, they continue to even gain better footing financially because they are always on T.V. more and come out ahead on the revenue sharing aspect. 

The Big Ten has big schools, big alumni bases, big stadiums and big tv markets.

The revenue sharing is relatively minor because a second tier program like Penn St. in that league has a 100,000 seat stadium.  Wisky 80,000 etc.

[I_have_purplewood]

Exactly why we'll never be like the Big 10 and the reason they will contniue to be a better conference than us.

Huh?

The Big Ten has big schools, big alumni bases, big stadiums and big tv markets.

The revenue sharing is relatively minor because a second tier program like Penn St. in that league has a 100,000 seat stadium.  Wisky 80,000 etc.

Very true but you can't tell me that it wouldn't hurt getting several to ten's of millions more per year.  I don't want a socialist conference but it would be nice if we could get at least some more suckling off the conference teet.