K-State's women's basketball program total expenses, including game travel/game hosting etc. etc.
Could have covered the entire budget of OU's National Champion Women's Softball team, and WVU's 2 time Big 12 Champion Women's Soccer team with approx: $300K left over, based on 2013 EADA filings; that includes all game day and travel expenses. Based on my at-a-glance calculations.
Such a bullshit post, there are like three people reading this thread, your numbers magic tricks aren't going to work, I read equity in athletics reports too & I know exactly why you didn't compare basketball program with other basketball programs.
What would you like to compare, the fact that OU women's basketball makes almost 7x's the amount of revenue than K-State WBB (for example).
All women's sports operates at a loss, that's news to no one.
Why spend all that money to finish at the bottom?
When you start paying a WBB's coach $600K a year and you build her facilities that are exactly equal to the men's team in every way, you have to expect more than swirling around at the bottom of the conference and getting blown off the floor.
If you're going to keep being intellectually dishonest then we might as well stop the conversation. You were talking about expenditures not revenue. You used softball and soccer to compare to K-State's women's basketball expenditures because actually comparing them to their peers wouldn't prove your point. I call you out on that and then you jump to revenue but again not comparing us to a peer school. I'm sure you compare K-State football revenues to OU revenues all of the time.
Also the athletic department hasn't brought Deb anything, donors built the BTF and women had to get space for title nine requirements. Our women's basketball team doesn't have better facilities than anyone else in this conference. Your point about spending money to be at the bottom would be valid if our women's program was perennially there, we aren't, she doesn't get a lifetime exemption but she hasn't done nearly enough wrong to get fired.
Yes I was talking about expenditures, then you brought up revenue. MIR wrote:
Deb is fine, our wbb revenue and attendance is decent No, our revenues are not decent, they are horrible, per the KSU 2013 NCAA Financial Report, WBB produced just $348K in revenue, on $3.114 million in expenses (not quite the same format as the EADA).
The collective of our WBB facilities are better than other programs on the major conference D1 level. Other programs don't have their very own practice court, sure, some do, some don't. The BTF puts K-State WBB in the mix for the best facilities collectively and exactly equal in every way to the men's program at K-State.
I don't like Deb, never have, probably never will, and when she's losing by 40 and headed to another bottom of the conference finish and K-State is losing millions . . there's plenty there to question.