re: USA Today Reports 2013 Athletics Revenues for each School

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Uga played two ooc opponents on the road in addition to playing in aub for the second year in a row due to expansion, thus putting a huge dent in their revenue by losing out on what would have been 3 home games worth of cash.

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you had 6.5 home games like you do every year

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In most cases they are operated as completely separate entities. But there are differing levels between the programs.

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Exactly. That is where we hide most of our money so we can sneak up on you frickers.

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I will not consider baseball capacity as equal to or greater than basketball capacity

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LSU baseball sells more tickets in a year than all but two basketball teams, Syracuse and Louisville.

Both Syracuse and Louisville are the only basketball teams to sell over 400K tickets in a year. LSU baseball is the only team to sell over 400K tickets in a year.

Again, combined total stadium capacity.

100k football stadiums, as of this year: Texas A&M, UT, UA, LSU. Arkansas has 77K capacity. UK will have 71K.

20K BB arenas: UK, UT, Arky. UA 12K, LSU & TAMU 11k

10k baseball stadiums, LSU, Arky, OM, USCe, Miss. ST. TAMU has about 6K. UT & UA around 5K-5.5K. UK has about 4K.

So the schools with the highest combined stadium capacity are UT, LSU, TAMU, UA, and Arky.

Big drop off in total combined stadium capacity after that group.

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In most cases they are operated as completely separate entities. But there are differing levels between the programs. Hence why it's not really a great comparison.

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correct they operate independently, however their financial reporting and revenue/expenditures run through the AD

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Equestrian fool

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TAMU already has equestrian, they do not have W Gymnastics.

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Note word in OP that has been marked in BOLD and underlined!

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Which is why LSU's baseball revenues are relevant.

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I think the year you are using for UK they only played 15 home games and not 20, or their numbers would be closer or surpass UL and SU

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Neither UK or UT basketball has ever eclipsed the 400K mark in ticket sales. LSU baseball routinely does this.

I cited the combined stadium capacity as evidence of why these schools have the revenue they do.

Edit: You bring up a good point I didn't even touch on in my posts...premium seats.

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While seating 2K less, YUM revenue dwarfs Rupp as they sell booze AND have lots of luxury boxes.

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LSU has more total premium seating than anyone in terms of football, and has the 2nd most in baseball to Arkansas. LSU basketball has limited premium seating, no suites. But if you look at the number of premium seating available across football, basketball, and baseball, LSU would be behind only Arkansas, and ahead of everyone else in the conference.

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TAF is a private non-profit. TAF owns most of the facilities and has around 300 million in assets. They also own all of the scoreboards and sponsorship revenue goes to TAF, not the AD. They also own the University Club which they lease to an LLC who runs the actual club and receive a percentage of revenue in return, again not through the AD.

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And Auburn does the same with TUF, and these rankings the fundraising revenues/expenditures and everything else are included

Ive seen the finical reporting first hand

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Neither UK or UT basketball has ever eclipsed the 400K mark in ticket sales.

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I am going to go out on a limb here and say UK and UT sell this every year in their basketball venues.

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Which is why LSU's baseball revenues are relevant.

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Here is where your argument fails

a) Do the seats behind the Tigers dugout sell for 1,000,000?
b) How many games in Box sell seats for 2,000 per game?
c) How many nosebleed Box seats sell for 500 bucks per game?

UK has venue revenues NBA teams would love to have
LSU can not make the same value comparison for MLB teams with Box.

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I am going to go out on a limb here and say UK and UT sell this every year in their basketball venues.

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Never. Only Syracuse and Louisville basketball have sold more than 400K tickets in a year. LSU baseball is the baseball team to sell 400k tickets in a year...more than every basketball team save the two mentioned.

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Here is where your argument fails

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Except it doesn't. LSU's Alex Box Stadium has 27 suites, second only to Arkansas' Baum Stadium at 34 suites.

The total amount of premium seating available to LSU among all sports facilities is greater than that of either UT or UK.

It's not rocket science.

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You have seen the financial reporting first hand of every school on this list?

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not every school, but several from the SEC and a few others and they have matched up.

Like I said they do operate somewhat independently but in regards to this particular ranking revenue is pretty much standard across the board. Expenditures are far different though. However, some schools do garner revenue from some different streams, because of how they are setup. This is the same in business though and just another way to generate revenue. something the other schools/ad's could do, but choose not to because its just not worth it, as easy at this point, or not smart just from a general cash flow perspective.

There isnt ever going to be an exact apples to apples comparison, but some AD's have more capabilities. You cant detract from a ranking because someone can do it better or different. Thats the whole reason as to how and why they reach a certain number, the same number you are judging someone else.

For instance, compare Apple and Samsung as a whole or maybe even just a division. are you only going to compare latops of the same screen size, etc... when comparing their revenues or are you going to compare the entire product line.