Realistically, millions will be required from students to pay the bills to move to FBS. If you look at this article, you can already find the opportunity cost of funding athletics instead of supporting non-athletic scholarships. How much are athletics subsidies at each of these schools which instead could go to fund hundreds of non-athletic full-ride scholarships? (Utah Tech, North Alabama, Tarleton State data not available for 2021). Well, they can. But it won’t likely be near enough to pay the additional bills annually.Īs demonstrated by the data above, in 2021 the median revenues from NCAA/Conference Distributions and Media Rights, and post-season football in the lowest quartile of FBS is $2.8 million. Only both Eastern Kentucky ($1.3 M) and Central Arkansas ($1.0 M) hit the million-dollar mark in this category. Donor contributions are well south of half-million dollars for all schools. That’s a lot of fundraising and praying for media contracts just to get to the median to be competitive. Why can’t they raise additional funds from other areas? In other words, students at each school will be asked to pay between $3.5 and $10 million more per year to field a football team competing at the very lowest levels of FBS. Austin) has total revenues of $17.5 million or less each year, to meet the median in total subsidies alone would require an additional annual subsidy of $3.5 million (Eastern Kentucky) to $10 million (Utah Tech). Will these schools ask students to pay more for a lowest-tier-FBS-competitive football program? Ask them. Here’s the rub. Every one of the institutions already relies on a minimum of at least 76% (Central Arkansas) to 88% (Tarleton State) of a subsidy to pay the overall expenses for athletics. And, because each of these institutions (except Stephen S. To be in the median (in the middle) of the lowest 25% of FBS (Quartile 4) required a 78% subsidy from students and from the institution (also known as a “subsidy”). That subsidy translates to $21 million per year. Source: Knight-Newhouse College Athletics Database, I think a median (middle value) for any data draws a good line, as you should be at least better than half of your opponents to be competitive. So, I looked at the 2021 median revenues and expenses for all the schools in this ASUM-WAC football discussion.
How competitive does this league want to be in the FBS? This is a very expensive idea. Expensive for students. Let the data do the talking… Matt Brown at Extra Points has been investigating the discussion about a football-only conference for those teams from the Atlantic Sun and the Western Athletic Conference… at the FBS level.
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