MT Athletic Revenues Down

[hokeyfine]

I read this article in the Bozeman Comical over the weekend. Looks to me like while athletic revenue for the Montana University System is down, revenue for the University of Montana isn't. The Comical has a way to smoothing things out when the news is unfavorable for MSU. One way to do that would be to cite revenue declines for the entire university system as a whole and not mention the picture at the the hometown university.

So here's the rest of the story:

NEWS FLASH! UM is $535,552 in the black. MSU is $17,580 in the red

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Here's a couple tidbits I thought were interesting. "Transfers to Institution," a category that discloses athletic income used to pay for things outside of athletics, lists $235K paid by UM Athletics to fund the interdisciplinary science building ($190K) and the marching band ($20K) and the minority mentoring program ($25k) . UM is the only campus that spends athletics money on non-athletics things.
Consider too, that MSU gets nearly $1 million a year more than UM in state support for athletics. This arrangement started in 1998 as MSU Athletics slid $1million into the red. At the time MSU argued that its facilities were too small to generate the kind of outside revenue that UM did with its larger football stadium. I see the cats lately bragging about 21k attendees to Griz-Cat in Bozeman. If that's the true, why is MSU still getting $811,982 million more state support than UM?

State doesn't determine how much athletics gets. Each institution gets a lump sum and they distribute it how they want.

 

[kemajic]

Hey but MSU did have a playoff game and their athletic budget still finished in the red. Good job!

Where did you ever get the idea that playoff games created revenue?

 

[kemajic]

new helmet stickers

That had to be it.