The Alabama Athletic Budget.
by TWO (2020-02-05 16:48:54)
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Pretty good read about the $$ side of an elite level football program.

-- Of the $164 million in revenue, 59.8 percent came from football. The only other profitable program was men’s basketball with $66,921 more revenue than expenses.

-- The two biggest money makers: Media rights ($48 million) and ticket sales ($39.1 million).

-- The two biggest expenses: Coaching pay ($31.6 million) and administrative/support staff pay ($32.1 million). Student athletic aid totaled $18.1 million.

-- Of note, the football team counted just 79.5 scholarship players -- below the 85 allowed by the NCAA.

-- There were 99 football players who received athletic aid with each receiving an average of $54,041. The men’s basketball team, for comparison, averaged $49,912 per athlete with 13 receiving aid.



What is in "athletic aid" besides Tuition, Room + Board?
by HScorpio  (2020-02-05 17:50:03)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

It looks like Alabama's "Total Cost of Attendance" for this year is $51k for out of state students. This includes Tuition, Room and Board, and then $6500 of estimated fees for Transportation, Books, and Misc.

So is Alabama (and presumably most Division 1 schools) just giving each scholarship athlete the amount for total cost of attendance? How does a scholarship actually work, anyway - I had assumed the athlete just got a credit equal to the charges from the Bursar on their student account, and that no actual check or money changed hands. Is that not the case?

I assume that tuition, fees, etc. for athletes
by jbrown_9999  (2020-02-05 18:00:24)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

is directly billed to the athletic department's budget.

So it counts as "tuition revenue" for the undergrad academic program and an "expense" for the respective sport (such as football).

There are some amounts for housing allowance, etc. which I believe are issued to athletes as direct payments.

These too would be charged back to the budget of the appropriate sport.
From Bama’s website: All in, $51,236 non-residents, $30,886
by 1NDGal  (2020-02-05 17:59:24)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

for residents.

Those figures include estimated transportation costs, books, and $2360 “miscellaneous”.