Sid: Gophers' athletic department revenue pales in comparison with Penn St, wisconsin

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One of the biggest challenges for Gophers athletics is figuring out how to compete against other Big Ten programs that bring in more revenue each season.

The most recent reports out of Penn State said the football program alone brought in over $100 million in revenue in 2018. Compare that to the Gophers, whose entire athletic department brought in $125 million in revenue in 2018, with $115 million in operating expenses.

Athletic director Mark Coyle talked about how the Gophers can compete when other universities are bringing in so much money in one sport.

“It’s like apples and oranges when you compare different departments with respect to their budgets and how they count their revenue,” Coyle said.

“I know as a member of the Big Ten, we all get the same equal share from the NCAA and the Big Ten with respect to those moneys from the television contracts. The one thing Penn State has is an incredibly big [football] stadium, and they fill that stadium each week, so they have an advantage with that big stadium to generate more revenue than a lot of people across the country. There is no doubt that revenue feeds not only the men’s hockey program at Penn State but all the other Olympic sports as well.”

http://www.startribune.com/gophers-...mparison-with-penn-state-wisconsin/508781962/

Go Gophers!!
 

Of course it does. Penn State and Wisconsin have bigger football stadiums, generally play in better weather, and excluding Penn State Basketball, have been significantly better than the Gophers for the past 25 years in both basketball and football. Plus there are tons of entertainment options in Minneapolis and few in Madison and State College.

Most of those are out of the Gopher's control but make a CFB playoff and/or a Final Four and the arena/stadium will sell out for many years.
 

How much in donations to the athletic fund as gifts as opposed to seat license ? Some schools were over 50 million in gifts last year ! This is critical as everything is not equal.





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Here's the solution:

1) The U cuts season ticket prices by $200.

2) The U raises parking fees by $200.

Don't laugh. Could happen.

JTG
 

Now the U needs to selll $20 seats for the unused end zone seats and get butts in the seats would be a start.
 


Gopher puck used to offset a substantial amount of the gap, now notsomuch.
 





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