LSU Athletic Department spending

Jaybo said:

https://www.lsu.edu/administration/ofa/oas/far/supplement-financial-reports/fy2025/lsu_am/1athletics.pdf

Cdog12 said:

Just proof how important Men's basketball is. We suck and still make a profit

shrlsu23 said:

A few questions and observations: 1. How is the ticket office bleeding out 2 million dollars 2. Our merchandise revenue across the board is only $1.1 million? Feels low with the cost of all the stuff I've seen. That's across the entire athletic department! 3. Biggest negative sports: Women's BBall - $8 million Track -$6.7 million Swimming & Diving - -$3.6 million Gymnastics -$3 million I'm sorry but Women's basketball operating at a negative 8 million dollar deficit is abhorrent. We all love the lady tigers success, but that's a horrible business model for the amount of success they have seen. Baseball is where it always is, a little in the red or black. Track just isn't a spectator sport, it has a large team so travel is expensive. The stadium is also a dump. Women's Basketball is the albatross on the department. It generated no where near the revenue that it consumes. Men's basketball as garbage as it is, operated +$2.25 million. Thank you TV contracts. We are missing out on revenue here though. Tough decisions have to be made in the future with rev share, but WBB got to change. Jay needs a bump and it's gonna come out of Kim's wallet.

Cdog12 said:

Just proof how important Men's basketball is. We suck and still make a profit

shrlsu23 said:

A few questions and observations: 1. How is the ticket office bleeding out 2 million dollars 2. Our merchandise revenue across the board is only $1.1 million? Feels low with the cost of all the stuff I've seen. That's across the entire athletic department! 3. Biggest negative sports: Women's BBall - $8 million Track -$6.7 million Swimming & Diving - -$3.6 million Gymnastics -$3 million I'm sorry but Women's basketball operating at a negative 8 million dollar deficit is abhorrent. We all love the lady tigers success, but that's a horrible business model for the amount of success they have seen. Baseball is where it always is, a little in the red or black. Track just isn't a spectator sport, it has a large team so travel is expensive. The stadium is also a dump. Women's Basketball is the albatross on the department. It generated no where near the revenue that it consumes. Men's basketball as garbage as it is, operated +$2.25 million. Thank you TV contracts. We are missing out on revenue here though. Tough decisions have to be made in the future with rev share, but WBB got to change. Jay needs a bump and it's gonna come out of Kim's wallet.

Matthew Brune said:

wbb is worth millions in marketing and brand value, which Verge himself has talked about. LSU loves having primetime slots on ESPN when football is over and WBB gives them that. It's very worthwhile to Verge to have that. Just something to keep in mind when looking at raw numbers

Matthew Brune said:

wbb is worth millions in marketing and brand value, which Verge himself has talked about. LSU loves having primetime slots on ESPN when football is over and WBB gives them that. It's very worthwhile to Verge to have that. Just something to keep in mind when looking at raw numbers

shrlsu23 said:

A few questions and observations: 1. How is the ticket office bleeding out 2 million dollars 2. Our merchandise revenue across the board is only $1.1 million? Feels low with the cost of all the stuff I've seen. That's across the entire athletic department! 3. Biggest negative sports: Women's BBall - $8 million Track -$6.7 million Swimming & Diving - -$3.6 million Gymnastics -$3 million I'm sorry but Women's basketball operating at a negative 8 million dollar deficit is abhorrent. We all love the lady tigers success, but that's a horrible business model for the amount of success they have seen. Baseball is where it always is, a little in the red or black. Track just isn't a spectator sport, it has a large team so travel is expensive. The stadium is also a dump. Women's Basketball is the albatross on the department. It generated no where near the revenue that it consumes. Men's basketball as garbage as it is, operated +$2.25 million. Thank you TV contracts. We are missing out on revenue here though. Tough decisions have to be made in the future with rev share, but WBB got to change. Jay needs a bump and it's gonna come out of Kim's wallet.

HybridTheory said:

How much of that comes from having an SEC-SEC title game? What does it look like in a year without NCAAT success conference-wide?

Matthew Brune said:

wbb is worth millions in marketing and brand value, which Verge himself has talked about. LSU loves having primetime slots on ESPN when football is over and WBB gives them that. It's very worthwhile to Verge to have that. Just something to keep in mind when looking at raw numbers

shrlsu23 said:

A few questions and observations: 1. How is the ticket office bleeding out 2 million dollars 2. Our merchandise revenue across the board is only $1.1 million? Feels low with the cost of all the stuff I've seen. That's across the entire athletic department! 3. Biggest negative sports: Women's BBall - $8 million Track -$6.7 million Swimming & Diving - -$3.6 million Gymnastics -$3 million I'm sorry but Women's basketball operating at a negative 8 million dollar deficit is abhorrent. We all love the lady tigers success, but that's a horrible business model for the amount of success they have seen. Baseball is where it always is, a little in the red or black. Track just isn't a spectator sport, it has a large team so travel is expensive. The stadium is also a dump. Women's Basketball is the albatross on the department. It generated no where near the revenue that it consumes. Men's basketball as garbage as it is, operated +$2.25 million. Thank you TV contracts. We are missing out on revenue here though. Tough decisions have to be made in the future with rev share, but WBB got to change. Jay needs a bump and it's gonna come out of Kim's wallet.

Matthew Brune said:

wbb is worth millions in marketing and brand value, which Verge himself has talked about. LSU loves having primetime slots on ESPN when football is over and WBB gives them that. It's very worthwhile to Verge to have that. Just something to keep in mind when looking at raw numbers

LynnB33 said:

wbb needs to redo the tv contracts for them to start making money….the wnba finally made a profit this year and it’s gonna keep going up with the expansion and tv contracts

Cdog12 said:

Now imagine this but with men's basketball.

shrlsu23 said:

that's a good point. If it's that valuable, how is it not more cost effective? College Baseball is still not as popular as we all see it as. Mostly only the south cares about it.

BigC70 said:

You talking about cost effective when just looking at the chart they spend roughly the same money across the board. The only difference is the men have 12 mil in revenue while the women have 2 mil. All the men's revenue is in the difference of TV contracts. Thats the lesson in the equal pay argument with people not understanding it doesnt matter how we treat you if people arent paying to see you. It will be interesting what the new contracts looks like for women's college.

droussel223 said:

The women receive no money for participating in March Madness. I was truly amazed about that information when I read about it two years ago. I think that should change which will benefit teams like LSU and conferences like the SEC.

HybridTheory said:

How much of that comes from having an SEC-SEC title game? What does it look like in a year without NCAAT success conference-wide?

Jaybo said:

It likely won’t be much. WBB is not widely viewed. LSU is a brand that is watched. Kim is a rock star as have been several of our players like Reese and FL. Fans at other schools show up at their home games to watch us.