MSU Athletics Hurting Financially

[Shockeriffic]

Are you talking about sports other than football? The mandates that the Big 10 is implementing and that Horgorsen is proposing is football only.

Okay. I was confused and thought it was for all sports.

[WSUwatcher]

Anyone else notice how their declining ticket sales coincide with the moronic "not a state" promotions?

Give 'em a break, RA -- you should see what their ticket sales would have been if they hadn't done the promotions. Wichita Non-State is keeping them afloat.

[RoyalShock]

Apparently, UNI fans invented the Not-A-State meme (they even have photo evidence). So MSU had to steal their marketing idea from a fellow conference school.

[shockmonster]

Who cares who came up with it? It's a dumb idea.

This town owns them all.

[ShockerFever]

Apparently, UNI fans invented the Not-A-State meme (they even have photo evidence). So MSU had to steal their marketing idea from a fellow conference school.

Maybe at the MSU game, UNI fans should make t-shirts claiming they were the first school to make Not A State t-shirts.

[RoyalShock]

Maybe at the MSU game, UNI fans should make t-shirts claiming they were the first school to make Not A State t-shirts.

That would certainly take it to the next level of lame.

[SHOCKvalue]

It is shocking how fiscally impoverished the MVC is as a whole. The irony is if you were to ask the typical WSU fan who has some knowledge of our financials, he or she would likely simply say that were are doing what we can to stay nationally-relevant, not how bad we have the vast majority of our conference mates pinned to the mat in the context of dollars and cents.


Overall Athletic Department Revenues, Minus Football Expenses (where applicable):

WSU - $25.3M
ISUr - $22.2M
SIU - $18.3M
Drake - $14.9M
Bradley - $14.2M
UNI - $13.9M
Loyola - $13.8M
MSU - $12.7M
Evansville - $10.9M
ISUb - $10.8M


Men's Basketball Revenue:

WSU - $6.8M
Bradley - $3.8M
UNI - $3.6M
Loyola - $2.8M
Evansville - $2.5M
ISUr - $2.32M
Drake - $2.26M
MSU - $2.2M
ISUb - $1.93M
SIU - $1.86M

(Extra decimals added where required to break a tie due to rounding.)

Source: http://ope.ed.gov/athletics/


There are many more metrics - athletically and institutionally - where we make the balance of the MVC look this bad as well, even though our student enrollment is about average in the conference.