I thought it was interesting to take a look at donation levels around the Power 5 (I mostly looked at past 3 years and no data on private schools). I had a spreadsheet that I was hoping to insert, but the formatting was terrible and would have been too hard to read. In general, you can really see who's serious about sports. I thought it was interesting to look at with realignment coming back up and potential stadium renovations for us.
http://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/finances/
Some things that I noticed:
Big 12 Realignment targets
-Almost every one of them had a pathetic level of donations. Only schools that hit $10 million in any of the past 3 years were Memphis and Boise State. The others, in general, were typically around $5 million.
Some of the schools that surprised me with much lower level of donations that I would have expected:
-Nebraska, NC State, UCLA, Arizona St., Maryland, Utah
Some of the schools that were low that you would expect to be low:
-Colorado, Rutgers, Washington St., Oregon St.
I thought Big 12 donation levels really looked pretty good across the board especially this past year. You can see why Missouri is changing up their point system. They're down at the bottom of the SEC with the Mississippis and Kentucky. Missouri's donation levels were lower than you would expect of a school of that size in the SEC.
KU's donation levels would be fairly competitive in any of the leagues (lag the most in the SEC). I think we were around #17 overall last year, but in that ~$30 million cluster where we would be close to the top 10. We were #7 overall in 2013 with $33 million in donations.
http://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/finances/
Some things that I noticed:
Big 12 Realignment targets
-Almost every one of them had a pathetic level of donations. Only schools that hit $10 million in any of the past 3 years were Memphis and Boise State. The others, in general, were typically around $5 million.
Some of the schools that surprised me with much lower level of donations that I would have expected:
-Nebraska, NC State, UCLA, Arizona St., Maryland, Utah
Some of the schools that were low that you would expect to be low:
-Colorado, Rutgers, Washington St., Oregon St.
I thought Big 12 donation levels really looked pretty good across the board especially this past year. You can see why Missouri is changing up their point system. They're down at the bottom of the SEC with the Mississippis and Kentucky. Missouri's donation levels were lower than you would expect of a school of that size in the SEC.
KU's donation levels would be fairly competitive in any of the leagues (lag the most in the SEC). I think we were around #17 overall last year, but in that ~$30 million cluster where we would be close to the top 10. We were #7 overall in 2013 with $33 million in donations.
