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The Twenty Five Largest College Athletic Department Budgets

College sports is big business, but how big? Well, it doesn’t get any bigger than Texas… 2007 Athletic Revenue by School Rank School Total Revenue Conference 1st Texas $120,288,370 Big 12 2nd Ohio State $117,953,712 Big Ten 3rd Florida $106,030,895...

How Big is Creighton’s Athletic Budget?

The Creighton University Athletics Program is small relative to the programs in the BCS conferences. During the 2007-2008 season, Creighton spent $12.9 million on its athletic programs. That’s only 10% of the $120.2 million revenue earned by the University of...

MLS: The Future is Bright

Professional sports leagues have discovered that they are not immune to the current economic difficulties. Revenue is flat or falling. Fixed costs are high. The weakest franchises in some leagues are losing tens of millions of dollars a year. Amid the carnage, a few...

Are MLS Teams Profitable?

Are MLS Teams Profitable? MLS owners have created the perception that MLS has been losing money since its inception. That operations haven’t created a positive cash flow. And while that may have been true prior to the last couple of seasons and still might be...

Where Do MLS Teams Get Their Revenue From?

MLS Teams have three primary sources of revenue: gate receipts, sponsorships and television. Over the last few years, MLS has found ways to increase revenue from all three sources. Stadia In order to improve gate receipts, MLS teams have spent the last decade finding...

How Much Money Does MLS Make From Its Television Deals?

MLS’s national television deals provided approximately $23 million from ESPN, Fox, HDNet and Univision in 2007. That amounts to less than three percent of the Premier League’s new three year, $850 million-a-year television rights deal. But just because the big...