Has USF Significantly Improved?

[Triple B]

I was using Brett's information on the salary figures perhaps I misread it. :-?

If McCullum returned next season, but was fired before April 15, 2008, the school would owe him $200,000. However, if he returned and was fired after April 15, 2008, USF would owe him an additional $100,000 annuity he collects on April 15, 2008.

[Buller64]

Event Revenue sources come from

http://usfweb2.usf.edu/bpa/OB/05-06/05-06_Operating_Budget.pdf

Athletic sources for expenses and revenues come from:

http://ope.ed.gov/athletics/search.asp

Where you can also search other colleges and schools.

Just for other knowledge Big East listing of athletic expenditures (in millions):

Notre Dame  $55.5

Connecticut  $49.9

Louisville  45.1

Syracuse  41.3

Rutgers  41.0

West Virginia  39.1

Pittsburgh  33.1

Cincinnati 28.9

Saint Johns 24.4

South Florida  24.3

Georgetown  23.6

Villanova  21.5

Marquette  19.5

Seton Hall  15.0

Providence 13.7

Depaul  13.1

Of the 331 schools in DIA BB USF ranks 78 overall and 97 in BB.

[Buller64]

2006 -07 numbers will not be available until August or September of 2007.

[usfgrad84]

What is the current price of a ticket for a game at the Sundome?

[JoeBulls]

Has anyone EVER considered the loss of revenue that is attributed to the fact that only 3,500 seats are filled in a stadium that seats 11K!..

Imagine a coach can increase average attendance to 7,500

And imagine the average cost of a seat is 25 dollars.

That would be an additional 100K dollar a game in additional revenue NOT including concessions.

With 15 home games, that would be an additional 1.5 million dollars a year in ticket sales revenue per year -- not including an increase in TV revenue that would come with a winning program getting more appearances in ESPN..

Gents.  Winnng solves EVERYTHING..

You can not sit idle and allow one of your cash cow revenue generating sports to just flownder.

Winning solves every problem this athletic department faces.  We can not afford to continue to field a basketball team that averages 2.5 conference wins per year.  That is both litterally and figuratively.

[Joe]

^^^ Ari.

[JoeBulls]

huh?

[Triple B]

^^^ Ari.

I'm not completely convinced yet...

[usfgrad84]

Has anyone EVER considered the loss of revenue that is attributed to the fact that only 3,500 seats are filled in a stadium that seats 11K!..

Imagine a coach can increase average attendance to 7,500

And imagine the average cost of a seat is 25 dollars.

That would be an additional 100K dollar a game in additional revenue NOT including concessions.

With 15 home games, that would be an additional 1.5 million dollars a year in ticket sales revenue per year -- not including an increase in TV revenue that would come with a winning program getting more appearances in ESPN..

Gents.  Winnng solves EVERYTHING..

You can not sit idle and allow one of your cash cow revenue generating sports to just flownder.

Winning solves every problem this athletic department faces.  We can not afford to continue to field a basketball team that averages 2.5 conference wins per year.  That is both litterally and figuratively.

Thank you.  That's the point I was going to make!!!!

My point is this....We averaged a little over 4000 per game.  I find it almost impossible to imagine that a big name coach worth his salt (meaning if he's a big name he better be able to increase attendance solely on his name) wouldn't generate average attendance of at least 2000 more per game against the likes of UCONN, Syracuse, ND, Georgetown, etc.

2000 x $30 per ticket x 14 games = $840,000.  Throw in another $ 500,000 or more per shoe contract, TV, Post season....  That's with a crappy team.  Imagine if we actually start to win once in a while and our fans actually start coming to the games.  If this was the case this yar ND and Syracuse would have sold out easily.

A big name coach easily pays for himself regardless of the buyout now.  If he starts to win then the rest is gravy.  If we only would have expected to be selling 4000 tickets per game when entering the Big East, regardless of football, we should have stayed in CUSA.  I don't think filling 40% of our 2nd biggest sport is what Woolard had in mind when accepting the job and making the statement about building the "finest athletic department in the BE".  If it is, then why bother stepping up into a top level conference?

[JoeBulls]

Honestly.

I think this above post is why Woolard is going to make the move.  He knows he can not sit by idle while one of the two cash cows generates little to no revenue.