Rodney Fort's Sports
Economics
Chapter 13.
College Sports
Links and
Fun
Updated to 3d
Edition
From your textbook:
- NCAA.org: Gets you to
Revenues and Expenses of Division IA Programs, eventually-- Using the
Media and Events pull-down menu, click on "NCAA Publications" then under the
Other Publications heading click "Research" then under the headings at the top
of the page click "Revenues and Expenses." Here is the most recent
version covering 2004-2008 (PDF).
Past versions: 1997 (PDF), 2002-2003 (PDF),
2004-2006 (PDF). There is also
a version aggregated at the conference level (sigh),
1993-2002 (PDF).
- Early
NCAA TV Fears (PDF): The article mentioned in your textbook.
- Conference Shuffles (MSWord): A nice graphic
image of the history of conference realignments.
-
Unequal Revenue Sharing : The complications created in the Big 12.
- Big 12 Athletic Director Pay
(MSWord): The article referred to in you textbook.
- Racial and
Gender Report Cards and More: Now published at the Institute for
Diversity and Ethics in Sport, DeVos Sports Business Management Program,
University of Central Florida.
- National College Players Assocation:
Formerly, the College Athletes Coalition. The home page of the organization covered in your text.
And
here is what they are up to, lately-- antitrust lawsuit to raise
grants-in-aid to the full cost of attendance.
College Sports Links, Current Topics:
-
Prof. Colombo on Tax Exempt Status and
College Sports (PDF): Penetrating and insightful rebuttal to those who
think this could ever be revoked.
-
Southwest Conference AD Pay (MSExcel):
Includes longevity and budget.
-
State Governors and College Coaches Pay
Comparison (MS Excel): State by state comparison, 2007.
-
Most Valuable College Football Teams: From Forbes; but
there is something quite wrong with this whole idea. Can you tell what
it is?
-
College Athletic Spending; A Quiet Crisis: According to NCAA
President Myles Brand. One can argue with the "arms race" analogy but
there have been a couple of casualties,
Wichita State University football and the entire athletic department at
Northeastern Illinois University.
- Economic Impact Assessment of Big 10
Football Games in Michigan (PDF): Why might the estimates in this
report be biased upward?
- Bowl Revenue Sharing, 2000-01
(MSWord): How much do teams get to keep? How much is
shared?
- March Madness Pays! (MSWord): At least
for Mizzou and KU in 2002.
- The BCS for Dummies (MSWord): Six steps
to maddening comparisons.
- Pay
for Play Exploitation Calculation (MSExcel): A quick and dirty
look from ESPN.com.
- The
Nebraska Senator That Wants To Pay College Players: from Milan
Simonich at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
-
If You Don't Pay the Players, Where Does the Money Go?: This
article suggests that the NCAA amateur requirement sends the money to
coaches of development squads at the AAU level.
- More
on Athletic Director Pay: Gene Smith moves from Arizona State to
Ohio State and doubles his compensation. And other interesting
examples. From the Jacksonville Times-Union.
- Coaches' Pay at the University of Maryland
(MSWord): from the Baltimore Sun.
- Coach's
Pay at Virginia Tech: Can you answer the question, "How can
the VT coach be worth $2 million?" From the Washington Post.
-
Coaches Pay Division IA Football: An astonishing data base from
USAToday.com.
-
Coaches Pay March Madness 2006: From USAToday.com again. Here
is an MSExcel file.
-
Curbing Coaches Mobility : Buyouts for remaining years are becoming
more common.
-
NCAA Basketball Tournament Success and Pay Raises : At USAToday.com.
- NCAA
March Madness Money, University Profits, and Estimated Player Earnings:
Chris Isadore strikes again from CNNMoney.com.
-
Title IX Kills Men's and Women's "Non-Revenue Sports? From USAToday.
What do you think really is the reason this is happening at James Madison
University? [Additional background at
The Washington Post.]
- Women's
Programs Trail Men's in Funding: A recent Women's Basketball
Coaches Association survey on resource differences for men's and women's
sports and coaches.
- 2003 Fiesta Bowl Impact Study (MSWord):
From the MBA Sports Business Program and Center for Business Research,
Arizona State University. What's your assessment?
- 2003 Holiday Bowl Impact Study
(PDF): By Marketing Information Masters, Inc. What's your assessment?
- Husky Stadium Economic Impact
(PDF): Let's see, we already have the Huskies there and they are going nowhere; but
the stadium has an additional value? And here's a
Subsidy Justification Argument from the UW President.
-
Economic Impact of the 2007 Chik-fil-A Bowl: There also is
included the
income/expense report of the bowl.
College
Sports Links, Additional Data:
- NCAA On-Line:
Especially, check out the opinions pages on the On-Line version
of the NCAA News.
- NCAA Infractions
Data Base: NCAA Divisions I, II and III legislation, legislative
proposals and searching major infractions cases.
- The Knight Commission Page:
The
latest assessments of college sports by an esteemed independent commission.
Click on "Reports" (you'll probably really enjoy the report by economist
Robert Frank).
- The
Empirical Effects of College Sports (PDF): Controversial report
exploding 10 myths about the economics of college sports. Includes a
slide show.
- Bowl Results,
Attendance, and Payouts : Since 1995-96, courtesy of
infoplease.com. Just click on "College Football."
- Bowl Payouts 2002 and 2003 (MSExcel): To
augment the file above.
- Bowl Payouts and Distribution by Conference
2004-05 (MSExcel): To augment the file above.
- Bowl Payouts 2005-06 (MSExcel):
To augment file above.
- Bowl Payouts 2006-07 (MSExcel):
To augment file above.
- Bowl Payouts 2007-08 (MSExcel):
To augment file above.
- Bowl Sponsors, 2003-04 (MSExcel): Just
where those bowl titles come from.
- March Madness Distributions, 2002 and 2003
(MSExcel): And here's how much, by conference!
- March Madness TV Rights
Fees (MSExcel): The major source of all the bounty! From
the late 1980s to the present contract running to 2014.
- NCAA TV Deal with CBS (MSExcel): From Sports
Business Journal.
- NCAA Sponsors, 2004 (MSExcel): From Sports
Business Journal.
- Big
6 Conferences, Revenues and Distributions, 2001-02 (MSExcel):
From SBJ.
-
IndyStar NCAA
Financial Reports Database for 2005: By Mark Alesia. This really
is an interesting tool, even if it is only for one year. You can also
get an MSExcel version
here (supplied by Mark as we chatted extensively as he put the tool
together).
- Equity and Spending in College
Sports: The federal compliance information collection;
look up income-expense break outs for any member NCAA school, starting in
2001.
- Revenues and
Spending, by Gender, in College Sports: Athletic department revenues and expenses as required by the
Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act, 1997-98 through 2000-01. These
data augment the information at the preceding Equity and Spending link which start 2001. Subscription required.
- Sears
Cup Data (MSExcel): The Sears Cup honors the combined best
athletic/academic colleges in the U.S. Interesting revenue, expense,
salary and other statistics about these programs.
I'm working on a comprehensive treatment of college sports business data,
coming soon to the Sports
Business Data Pages!