zippy5 Posted April 1, 2017 Report Share Posted April 1, 2017 See page 24 of their financials Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skip-zip Posted April 1, 2017 Report Share Posted April 1, 2017 22 minutes ago, zippy5 said: They're doing just fine Of course they are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kreed5120 Posted April 1, 2017 Report Share Posted April 1, 2017 (edited) 3 hours ago, Balsy said: sure they are. My mother has a wonderful story about the University of Tennessee. When she was there, there was a dorm attached to Neyland Stadium (still there today I believe) that was known as the "Athlete Only" dorm to everyone on campus, where steak and other very rich foods were served regularly but not available to the rest of the student body. I believe she recalls the dorm being "available" on paper to any student, but was absurdly expensive for the time, and strangely always full so it never had any openings. If you want to believe that it's somehow better today that in was in the 1970s when it comes to the corruption in NCAA D-I athletics, be my guest. I'm not. Athlete villages are at a lot of places. Akron doesn't have them. If universities such as OSU are fully funded and are transferring money to the university to pay room and board on their student athletes, the athletic department is indirectly paying for these. Things like the student union and the red center are designed to benefit the entire university. In fact, those facilities probably benefit the run of the mill students more as athletes have player lounges and weight rooms of their own that they can use. Edited April 1, 2017 by kreed5120 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kreed5120 Posted April 1, 2017 Report Share Posted April 1, 2017 (edited) 1 hour ago, skip-zip said: Then you sell it to the public that this is a necessary expense to help your University conquer the great humanitarian causes of the world, and how it is "not just for athletes", and most people never question it. You are alluding to the fact that the $1.1 billion medical research facilitity was built for the purpose of recruiting. Please explain how the two are remotely related when 99.9% of student athletes aren't going to OSU to get their MD-PhD? That is there single largest debt holding on their books and represents ~40% of their debt. As Zippy5 pointed out they are in a position to pay their bills. We however are not. Every time you try pointing your finger at someone, 2 fingers are pointing back at you. Let's get our own matters in order before we criticize others. Edited April 1, 2017 by kreed5120 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skip-zip Posted April 1, 2017 Report Share Posted April 1, 2017 41 minutes ago, kreed5120 said: Let's get our own matters in order before we criticize others. Be my guest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spin Posted April 2, 2017 Report Share Posted April 2, 2017 On 3/31/2017 at 9:27 AM, morris buttermaker said: Thanks for all that info... Since they are a self sustaining athletic department, and service all of their debt from within the Athletic Dept. I will stick with my belief/ statement that Ohio State can afford to pay what they are paying. This is what I meant in another thread when I said "we are not tOSU". I didn't mean the quality of the hoops program, I meant the athletics dept as a whole. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LZIp Posted July 6, 2017 Report Share Posted July 6, 2017 2015-2016 D1 Athletic Department Finances. Make of it what you will. http://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/finances/ Methodology behind the numbers: http://sports.usatoday.com/2017/07/06/methodology-for-2016-ncaa-athletic-department-revenue-database/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skip-zip Posted July 6, 2017 Report Share Posted July 6, 2017 3 hours ago, LZIp said: 2015-2016 D1 Athletic Department Finances. Make of it what you will. http://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/finances/ Methodology behind the numbers: http://sports.usatoday.com/2017/07/06/methodology-for-2016-ncaa-athletic-department-revenue-database/ Thanks. This is interesting. A couple of things really caught my attention: 1) Texas A&M higher than Texas. 2) The fact that Texas A&M is also highly "profitable", in addition to being the king of athletic revenue. 3) I wonder how significantly this number changed for them after joining the SEC? 4) A sense of hope that it's not unfathomable to have 2 schools in one state generating major support and revenue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zippy5 Posted July 7, 2017 Report Share Posted July 7, 2017 Texas is a little different than Ohio. In a variety of ways beginning with size. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LZIp Posted July 7, 2017 Report Share Posted July 7, 2017 I really didn't post that to discuss Texas at all. More so Akron and the MAC. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skip-zip Posted July 7, 2017 Report Share Posted July 7, 2017 27 minutes ago, zippy5 said: Texas is a little different than Ohio. In a variety of ways beginning with size. And also have 12 FBS schools to compete for fan attention, vs. only 8 in our "smaller" state. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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