http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/2007-01-04-ohiostate-finances-cover_x.htm Buckeyes field a total of 36 sports for men and women, 16 more than any other Division 1 School.
George, Meijer (Food Chain) is selling white alligator meat in a special promotion, so you can roast your very own Gator! :shock:
This statement is interesting to me... In Texas the school AD's have no choice - they must be totally self-supporting by law. Is this not the case in Ohio? I know it's not in Louisiana, where state funds are used by the AD, and was wondering if that was an isolated case, or more widespread? Just wondering...
Don, I'm a Kroger man myself. Last time I was in Dayton I went to Meijer and was lost inside for two days :wink:
That's an interesting article Don, thanks for posting. One minor thing, OSU doesn't field 16 more athletic teams, but 16 more than average. Stanford for instance has 35. But it's very impressive and the Buckeye's out spend Florida, which is 3rd on the list, by about 30%. That is unbelievable. At Florida our atletic program makes money also but I am not sure if we get any state money. I think we might. I do know that when it comes to stadium expansion, an airplane to fly our coaches during recruiting etc that Florida pays their own. On the other hand over at SOW, school out west meaning FSU, they have used state money for stadium expansion, Bobby Bowden flys around in a state plane, so they are not totally independent. I heard that Florida is adding another womens sport which I don't think is in our 20 so we can break that tie with Texas. :? :? One intersting thing, if Ohio State is has 16 more sports than average that means 20 is the average. That means that Florida and Texas with their high budgets just have an average number of sports.
Meijer is from up Bobda's way...Grand Rapids. When I lived there it was called "Meijer's Thrifty Acres" and was kind of a local operation.
Scott, Yes, our program is self supporting. Also note a large chunk of money was used to retire physical plant debt, which cut the bottom line by something like 15 million bucks!
Irish have 24 NCAA Sports, I don't think there are plans to expand either. Title IX which has done wonders for womens sports in this country, has also killed a lot of mens sports. For example Texas is a hotbed for both boys and girls soccer on the HS level. But only SMU has a Div1 program. It's a shame that Texas Boys have to go out of state to play soccer, but adding a soccer team would require addition of at least 1 other womens sports maybe two depending on how many scholarships are involved with soccer. Also this disparity in the number of sports schools fund across the country is what makes the Directors Cup sort of a meaningless trophy. Nice and all that because it does mean your program is good across the board if you win it or rank high, but schools with more sports are going to have more opportunity to earn points than those with fewer. Just think about the difference in ability to earn points between Notre Dame or Fla and Ohio State or Stanford. Terry
Maybe they should rate the success of the school by percentage. However, since they don't, maybe we should rate the conferences the same way they pick a Directors Cup, by total wins regardless of how many participants. Maybe use the percentage as a tie brealer. Let's see how that would affect the stats: 1st....... SEC............. 5 wins :shock: 2nd...... Big East....... 4 wins...... 100% 3rd...... ACC.............. 4 wins........ 50% 4th (tie) Mtn West..... 3 wins........ 75% 4th (tie) WAC............ 3 wins........ 75% 6th........PAC 10........ 3 wins......... 50% 7th........Big 12.......... 3 wins......... 38% 8th........Big Ten........ 2 wins 9th (tie) Sun Belt....... 1 win 9th (tie) MidAmerican. 1 win 11th (tie) CUSA......... 0 wins 11th (tie) Indep......... 0 wins