Punching Above Their Weight

The DM Register did a good job figuring out the athletic and football budgets for several conferences. Those are hard numbers to parse out.

Iowa State again has the smallest athletic budget in the Big 12, yet is fourth or fifth best in performance.  Nice job all around. That kind of result is all we can ask for.

My only quibble is the "Cash Spent per football win" formula only focused on one year being too short. One good or bad year skews the results too much. I would prefer a 3 or 5 year horizon to get a clearer view of things.

The big surprise? Iowa has the fourth biggest budget in the Big 10, yet is last in the league for performance the last two years. Ouch.

Bowl Costs

The Wiz has an ugly chart of the amount of money schools normally lose on bowl trips.

The worst example is Ohio- losing a couple hundred grand on a trip to Detroit, the same year you cut three sports.

I hope ISU can at least break even.

Peter

This Explains A Lot

Anyone who wonders why ISU struggles in sports only has to look at this list.

Revenue equals winning, which equals revenue. It's that simple.

Peter