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[BurninDownTheCouch]

WVU sees major increase in athletic revenue
· by Bob Hertzel For The Exponent Telegram

MORGANTOWN — As the school year, and with it the athletic year, begins anew for West Virginia, it is time, perhaps, to understand just how far financially the Mountaineers have come since joining the Big 12 Conference.

Think back, for a moment, to 2008 — not a year picked randomly but, instead, a year in which there were detailed published reports on the Mountaineers’ income and how it compared to the other top schools in the nation.

WVU stood 46th, with gross revenues from athletics of $54,262,716.

It wasn’t that the Mountaineers weren’t selling themselves well. Their branding stood No. 16 in the nation at $5,603,873. True, it was only a third of No. 1 Texas, but that’s a different breed, those Longhorns.

Still, WVU was barely top 50 and its media rights brought in all of $213,873 that year.

Now lets look at WVU in 2015-16, according to USAToday.

The Mountaineers were all the way up to No. 26 — from No. 46 — and their revenues had just about doubled at $105,140,368, while Texas stood at No. 2 with $187,981,158.

Here is how WVU stood with its peers in the Big 12 Conference in revenue (number in parentheses is national rank):

Texas (2), $188 million; Oklahoma (6); $150 million; West Virginia (26), $105 million; Oklahoma State (37) $94 million; Kansas (38), $91 million; Texas Tech (42), $83 million; Iowa State (48) $78 million, Kansas State (49) $78 million.

TCU and Baylor’s figures were not available as both are private schools.

But this is interesting, for WVU’s expenses were “only” $85,900,652, which gave them a $19 million profit.

This is how the Big 12 teams ranked in profit: Oklahoma $23 million, WVU $19 million; Texas $17 million, Kansas State $7 million, Kansas $5 million; Texas Tech $4 million; Oklahoma State $1 million and Iowa State $76,201.

 

[Motown Mounty]

Marshall brought in $19.38

 

[Snow Sled Baby]

WVU sees major increase in athletic revenue
· by Bob Hertzel For The Exponent Telegram

MORGANTOWN — As the school year, and with it the athletic year, begins anew for West Virginia, it is time, perhaps, to understand just how far financially the Mountaineers have come since joining the Big 12 Conference.

Think back, for a moment, to 2008 — not a year picked randomly but, instead, a year in which there were detailed published reports on the Mountaineers’ income and how it compared to the other top schools in the nation.

WVU stood 46th, with gross revenues from athletics of $54,262,716.

It wasn’t that the Mountaineers weren’t selling themselves well. Their branding stood No. 16 in the nation at $5,603,873. True, it was only a third of No. 1 Texas, but that’s a different breed, those Longhorns.

Still, WVU was barely top 50 and its media rights brought in all of $213,873 that year.

Now lets look at WVU in 2015-16, according to USAToday.

The Mountaineers were all the way up to No. 26 — from No. 46 — and their revenues had just about doubled at $105,140,368, while Texas stood at No. 2 with $187,981,158.

Here is how WVU stood with its peers in the Big 12 Conference in revenue (number in parentheses is national rank):

Texas (2), $188 million; Oklahoma (6); $150 million; West Virginia (26), $105 million; Oklahoma State (37) $94 million; Kansas (38), $91 million; Texas Tech (42), $83 million; Iowa State (48) $78 million, Kansas State (49) $78 million.

TCU and Baylor’s figures were not available as both are private schools.

But this is interesting, for WVU’s expenses were “only” $85,900,652, which gave them a $19 million profit.

This is how the Big 12 teams ranked in profit: Oklahoma $23 million, WVU $19 million; Texas $17 million, Kansas State $7 million, Kansas $5 million; Texas Tech $4 million; Oklahoma State $1 million and Iowa State $76,201.

you may need to explain those numbers a little more......the marshall athletic dept..,yea even the entire "university".....has never seen that many numbers together all at once...they don't understand much over 200,000

 

[tOSUGrad90]

All that money made, and not a single Top 25 football win last season to show for it.

 

[30CAT]

All that money made, and not a single Top 25 football win last season to show for it.

And not one WVU fan gives two $h!ts about Ohio State, yet you can't get enough of WVU's sack.

Once a Herdie, always a Herdie.

 

[tOSUGrad90]

Clearly, I have struck a pussy cat's nerve by posting the FACT that the Fold & Blew didn't beat a single ranked team last season. The truth not only hurts kitty cat, it cuts her deeply!

 

[old buzzard]

you may need to explain those numbers a little more......the marshall athletic dept..,yea even the entire "university".....has never seen that many numbers together all at once...they don't understand much over 200,000

According to some on their message board they seem to think that we owe them some of that money. One poster even suggest that we pay them $5 million a year since we don't play them......

 

[30CAT]

Clearly, I have struck a pussy cat's nerve by posting the FACT that the Fold & Blew didn't beat a single ranked team last season. The truth not only hurts kitty cat, it cuts her deeply!

Not this cat. I didn't disagree with the fact that WVU didn't beat a Top 25 team last year. I knew that before you posted it. You totally missed the point (not surprisingly)

You're beating the Ohio State drum on a board that has nothing to do with Ohio State. Not a rival, not a fellow state school, the two don't play each other and most of all, WVU fans don't care about Ohio State.

But you hang off of WVU's sack. Puzzling, to say the least, for people who don't know you're a Herdie at heart. No other explanation makes sense.

 

[Tonycried2]

WVU sees major increase in athletic revenue
· by Bob Hertzel For The Exponent Telegram

MORGANTOWN — As the school year, and with it the athletic year, begins anew for West Virginia, it is time, perhaps, to understand just how far financially the Mountaineers have come since joining the Big 12 Conference.

Think back, for a moment, to 2008 — not a year picked randomly but, instead, a year in which there were detailed published reports on the Mountaineers’ income and how it compared to the other top schools in the nation.

WVU stood 46th, with gross revenues from athletics of $54,262,716.

It wasn’t that the Mountaineers weren’t selling themselves well. Their branding stood No. 16 in the nation at $5,603,873. True, it was only a third of No. 1 Texas, but that’s a different breed, those Longhorns.

Still, WVU was barely top 50 and its media rights brought in all of $213,873 that year.

Now lets look at WVU in 2015-16, according to USAToday.

The Mountaineers were all the way up to No. 26 — from No. 46 — and their revenues had just about doubled at $105,140,368, while Texas stood at No. 2 with $187,981,158.

Here is how WVU stood with its peers in the Big 12 Conference in revenue (number in parentheses is national rank):

Texas (2), $188 million; Oklahoma (6); $150 million; West Virginia (26), $105 million; Oklahoma State (37) $94 million; Kansas (38), $91 million; Texas Tech (42), $83 million; Iowa State (48) $78 million, Kansas State (49) $78 million.

TCU and Baylor’s figures were not available as both are private schools.

But this is interesting, for WVU’s expenses were “only” $85,900,652, which gave them a $19 million profit.

This is how the Big 12 teams ranked in profit: Oklahoma $23 million, WVU $19 million; Texas $17 million, Kansas State $7 million, Kansas $5 million; Texas Tech $4 million; Oklahoma State $1 million and Iowa State $76,201.

 

[Tonycried2]

Yawn...wake me when you have more Jack than Harvard! No doubt with all that money the Crimson will be in the FBS playoffs this year!

 

[BurninDownTheCouch]

Yawn...wake me when you have more Jack than Harvard! No doubt with all that money the Crimson will be in the FBS playoffs this year!

I believe the article was referring to "athletic revenue", not endowments, and this is a sports forum. No school would ever surpass Harvard in that category, the first institution of higher education in the US(1636). I believe the closest is $12-15B behind. However, WVU's athletic profit/budget is staggeringly larger. I did find it interesting that WVU was ahead of Texas and Ok St. in "profit". Texas needs a money manager.

You have to admit, WVU does more with less than about any other university in the country. Pretty impressive numbers on the heels of record enrollment this year.

 

[Tonycried2]

I believe the article was referring to "athletic revenue", not endowments, and this is a sports forum. No school would ever surpass Harvard in that category, the first institution of higher education in the US(1636). I believe the closest is $12-15B behind. However, WVU's athletic profit/budget is staggeringly larger. I did find it interesting that WVU was ahead of Texas and Ok St. in "profit". Texas needs a money manager.

You have to admit, WVU does more with less than about any other university in the country. Pretty impressive numbers on the heels of record enrollment this year.

I've never thought it was money that held WVU back...it's the fact we're a small state that only produces 1-2 players a year that would be difference makers on a Big 12 gridiron. WVU has great facilities and fan support but you have to go elsewhere to get playersand that can be a probl

 

[BurninDownTheCouch]

I've never thought it was money that held WVU back...it's the fact we're a small state that only produces 1-2 players a year that would be difference makers on a Big 12 gridiron. WVU has great facilities and fan support but you have to go elsewhere to get playersand that can be a probl

There's nothing to argue with on your valid points. However, it just underscores the fact that WVU does more with less than anyone else I can think of.

 

[old buzzard]

There's nothing to argue with on your valid points. However, it just underscores the fact that WVU does more with less than anyone else I can think of.

The same could be said for both football and basketball. We don't get the 5 star recruits, and few 4 stars, and we don't have the most outstanding facilities in the land, but somehow our coaches keep our teams relevant on the national scale. Every year.

 

[BurninDownTheCouch]

The same could be said for both football and basketball. We don't get the 5 star recruits, and few 4 stars, and we don't have the most outstanding facilities in the land, but somehow our coaches keep our teams relevant on the national scale. Every year.

Exactly, Buzz. That's what I was talking about. Basketball in everyone's top 10 preseason; preseason football ranked. 2nd in our conference in athletic dept. profits. Even baseball is becoming relevant. Women's soccer #1 and played for it all last year. Not too shabby for a bunch of hillbillies people in a small community southwest of Kanawha County constantly disparage.

 

[Falstaff]

Marshall brought in $19.38

Don't forget the 20,000 free Copenhagen coupons.

 

[tOSUGrad90]

Not this cat. I didn't disagree with the fact that WVU didn't beat a Top 25 team last year. I knew that before you posted it. You totally missed the point (not surprisingly)

You're beating the Ohio State drum on a board that has nothing to do with Ohio State. Not a rival, not a fellow state school, the two don't play each other and most of all, WVU fans don't care about Ohio State.

But you hang off of WVU's sack. Puzzling, to say the least, for people who don't know you're a Herdie at heart. No other explanation makes sense.

Each of my two cats is smarter than you, puss. I didn't mention Ohio State in my prior posts in this thread, so why you feel the need to throw a tantrum about my allegedly, "beating the Ohio State drum" is bewildering. I grew up in Ohio and graduated from the first and second Ohio state universities, but have lived in West Virginia for longer than 25 years now, so I enjoy kicking kitty litter in your whiskers. I'm sorry that your modest intellectual endowment renders you incapable of understanding this simple concept. Your Buckeye wife still wears the pants in your family, doesn't she?

 

[Tonycried2]

There's nothing to argue with on your valid points. However, it just underscores the fact that WVU does more with less than anyone else I can think of.

WVU holds their own with getting great players from Florida ( many recruited by Doc) through the years. Pennsylvania as well. But the fact that the Mounties have to venture into " enemy" territory for players makes it tough, IMHO. As we agreed to, our state just doesn't produce many kids that can play winning Big 12 football or even C-USA football for that matter.

 

[old buzzard]

........... our state just doesn't produce many kids that can play winning Big 12 football or even C-USA football for that matter.

True, but WVU is making gains in terms of getting that type of player to stay home. Examples - The highest rated recruit from our state last year, Derek Pitts, and this years highest rated WV kid, Dante Stills both are now with WVU.

 

[Tonycried2]

True, but WVU is making gains in terms of getting that type of player to stay home. Examples - The highest rated recruit from our state last year, Derek Pitts, and this years highest rated WV kid, Dante Stills both are now with WVU.

But we ( MU and WVU) lost kids to LSU and Tennessee last year from Spring Valley and Pt. Pleasant. KIds that are good enough to attract offers from SEC schools need to stay at home, I would offer that it is even more important to WVU than MU for them to stay home!

 

[30CAT]

Each of my two cats is smarter than you, puss. I didn't mention Ohio State in my prior posts in this thread, so why you feel the need to throw a tantrum about my allegedly, "beating the Ohio State drum" is bewildering. I grew up in Ohio and graduated from the first and second Ohio state universities, but have lived in West Virginia for longer than 25 years now, so I enjoy kicking kitty litter in your whiskers. I'm sorry that your modest intellectual endowment renders you incapable of understanding this simple concept. Your Buckeye wife still wears the pants in your family, doesn't she?

Whatever you say Herdie.

 

[Stone_Cold]

Whatever you say Herdie.

He's still sore from the ass raping......7 first downs and 0 points. Proved they didn't belong.

 

[tOSUGrad90]

Speaking of "ass raping," how did the Fold & Blew do against the fifth or sixth place ACC team and unranked Miami in its bowl game?

 

[Stone_Cold]

Speaking of "ass raping," how did the Fold & Blew do against the fifth or sixth place ACC team and unranked Miami in its bowl game?

Just like I thought, you're still sore. Poor fella

 

[tOSUGrad90]

Your a$$hole is what's sore, Stone Cold Stupid. Brad Kaaya had his way with you, and forgot the lubrication!

 

[Stone_Cold]

Your a$$hole is what's sore, Stone Cold Stupid. Brad Kaaya had his way with you, and forgot the lubrication!

Clemson went into the championship game fully rested

 

[countryroads89]

But we ( MU and WVU) lost kids to LSU and Tennessee last year from Spring Valley and Pt. Pleasant. KIds that are good enough to attract offers from SEC schools need to stay at home, I would offer that it is even more important to WVU than MU for them to stay home!

The Pt. Pleasant kid who went to LSU has quit football altogether.

And don't forget about Elijah Wellman and Reese Donahue. Both getting significant playing time in the Big XII and both having significant contributions. The talent in the state is improving.

 

[Tonycried2]

The Pt. Pleasant kid who went to LSU has quit football altogether.

And don't forget about Elijah Wellman and Reese Donahue. Both getting significant playing time in the Big XII and both having significant contributions. The talent in the state is improving.

Didn't know that did the kid get hurt or just didn't have the heart for it?

 

[countryroads89]

Didn't know that did the kid get hurt or just didn't have the heart for it?

From talking with another person from Pt. Pleasant, they said his heart just wasn't in football any more....someone first thought it may have just been home sickness and they could possibly talk him into playing for Marshall or WVU but apparently that wasn't an option he was interested in.

 

[Tonycried2]

From talking with another person from Pt. Pleasant, they said his heart just wasn't in football any more....someone first thought it may have just been home sickness and they could possibly talk him into playing for Marshall or WVU but apparently that wasn't an option he was interested in.

Shame, kid must have had some talent for LSU to offer but everybody has the right to be self directed!

 

[countryroads89]

Speaking of $$$$$.

This week's tips:

Unibet has Marshall as a 1.5 pt favorite, take the Redhawks and the points.
Cantor has the hokies as a 5.5 pt favorite, take the Mountaineers and the points.

You're welcome.

 

[tOSUGrad90]

Speaking of $$$$$.

This week's tips:

I'm a total Fold & Blew homer, so don't take my betting advice.

You're welcome.

FIFY

 

[Tonycried2]

Speaking of $$$$$.

This week's tips:

Unibet has Marshall as a 1.5 pt favorite, take the Redhawks and the points.
Cantor has the hokies as a 5.5 pt favorite, take the Mountaineers and the points.

You're welcome.

Not saying you're wrong but better bets on the card, IMHO! Love UK - 10 1/2 if you're going to be the kid's college fund! Miami and WVU could win but could also get clipped.