SEC basketball revenue- 2011-2012

[Coach34]

Some numbers on revenue....the percentage is how much of the school's athletic revenue basketball brings in

Kentucky	$21.6 million	25%
Arkansas	$16.6 million	17%
Tennessee	$14.5 million	14%
Alabama	$12.0 million	10%
Florida	$10.2 million	8%
Auburn	$9.5 million	9%
LSU	$9.4 million	8%
Vanderbilt	$9.3 million	17%
Georgia	$8.5 million	9%
South Carolina	$7.7 million	9%
Mississippi State	$7.0 million	13%
Missouri *	$6.7 million	11%
Texas A&M *	$6.1 million	8%
Ole Miss	$5.9 million	14%

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[Maroon Eagle]

Just curious. What's the source?

 

[Coach34]

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2013/03/sec_basketball_moneyball_alaba.html

 

[Cow College]

So just for everyone to remember this is why football drives expansion. You can guarantee the other 75% at Kentucky is football.

 

[Maroon Eagle]

Thanks.

 

[57stratdawg]

According to this MSU's athletic budget is $53.9 Million (MM, bitches) and OM's is $42.1Million. That doesn't seem right.

 

[esplanade91]

So MSU made more money in easily the worst year in the history of our program than Ole Miss during a Cinderella (by their standards) season? Seems about right. Can't tailgate for basketball games.

 

[patdog]

Was just about to point that out. This is why basketball is almost irrevelant in conference realignment. This is why the SEC will probably eventually take North Carolina and won't even consider taking Duke with them.

 

[drt7891]

So MSU made more money in easily the worst year in the history of our program than Ole Miss during a Cinderella (by their standards) season? Seems about right. Can't tailgate for basketball games.

These are last year's numbers. Even last year, we struggled to fill the place up except for a #1 ranked UK team. Crowds last year were pathetic.

 

[engie]

These are last year's numbers. Even last year, we struggled to fill the place up except for a #1 ranked UK team. Crowds last year were pathetic.

Exactly...

These numbers are certainly not our basketball ceiling...

 

[DAWG61]

I love that even though Kentucky is #1 on this list they still aren't #1 in their own state. L'ville makes almost $30 mill a year.

 

[engie]

I love that even though Kentucky is #1 on this list they still aren't #1 in their own state. L'ville makes almost $30 mill a year.

Louisville has a brand new mega$$ arena(and are in debt up to their eyeballs over said arena)...

That's a large part of the reason that UK is talking about building a brand new one in Lexington and leveling Rupp -- or at the very least spending a couple hundred million renovating Rupp. No premium seating in Rupp = less earning potential across the board.

Louisville is a great basketball fanbase...but big blue nation, they are not.

 

[Lettucexxxx]

Louisville has a brand new mega$$ arena(and are in debt up to their eyeballs over said arena)...

That's a large part of the reason that UK is talking about building a brand new one in Lexington and leveling Rupp -- or at the very least spending a couple hundred million renovating Rupp. No premium seating in Rupp = less earning potential across the board.

Louisville is a great basketball fanbase...but big blue nation, they are not.

The YUM center is a 1st class arena. I was able to visit last year and it blew me away. Louisville has so many draws. By far my favorite city in the South....cross the river and enter yonkee nation is only downside.

 

[Railin Jemmye]

City of Louisville is the one in debt over the arena. University actually got a pretty sweet deal.

 

[Railin Jemmye]

Nobody from Louisville considers themselves the 'South'. I really don't either.

 

[57stratdawg]

It's a great city. Always had a blast there the few days I've spent.

 

[Lettucexxxx]

Nobody from Louisville considers themselves the 'South'. I really don't either.

I dont give a 17 what you or anyone else consider themselves. The reference was more of a spatial analysis in coordination to the Mason Dixon Line. I was not accounting for the prickage of cultural nit wits.

 

[Railin Jemmye]

You sound like engie with your 'spatial analysis'. Kentucky was firmly in the Union, and Louisville was a Union stronghold.

 

[engie]

You sound like engie with your 'spatial analysis'.

Anotherwords, flying WAY above your comprehension level.

Kentucky was far from "firmly in the union" -- but that's an argument for another day -- preferably with a more adept and intelligent adversary.

 

[Lettucexxxx]

You sound like engie with your 'spatial analysis'. Kentucky was firmly in the Union, and Louisville was a Union stronghold.

Railin, go look up spatial analysis. Geographically, its the South. I did not make the rules, I just abide by them. Thanks for the history lesson and yes, you were right, it was a strong hold and so was my home town of Natchez. But know matter what you think, here is the truth:
[h=2][/h] During the 1850s, Louisville became a vibrant and wealthy city, but together with the success, the city also harbored racial and ethnic tensions. It attracted numerous immigrants, had a large slave market from which enslaved African Americans were sold to the Deep South, and had both slaveholders and abolitionists as residents.

So what were you saying?

 

[Coach34]

Anotherwords, flying WAY above your comprehension level.

-- but that's an argument for another day -- preferably with a more adept and intelligent adversary.

you could talk the ******* wall and have a more intelligent adversary

 

[Railin Jemmye]

I was saying that Louisville is not the South.

 

[Lettucexxxx]

I was saying that Louisville is not the South.

 

[BiscuitEater]

I would question these %'s ...

According to this MSU's athletic budget is $53.9 Million (MM, bitches) and OM's is $42.1Million. That doesn't seem right.

Every published SEC Athletic Budget that I have seen in the last few years, show MSU and OM with almost equal in revenue (MSU > in BB and OM > in football) but they have also been consistant in that OM SPENDS MORE $$ on Basketball than State does.

 

[Cow College]

I have never laughed longer at a reply than this one. EVER

 

[dawgman42]

And our expenses were in Juicy Jumbos, so we show higher margins.

 

[esplanade91]

Nobody from Louisville considers themselves the 'South'. I really don't either.

They drink a **** ton of bourbon and they're ranked by Forbes as the laziest city in the USA. They might not consider themselves southern, but by definition they definitely are.