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Also, if they're looking to cut a team, men's tennis costs $18,261 per participant, women's is $20,068, and women's softball is $21,220. Those are the three highest after men's and women's basketball and men's football, all three of which are net revenue generators.

So the whole "we made $9M from operations" is an exercise in how to lie with statistics.  Cash flow from operations is positive, but cash flow from financing is seriously negative.  So overall cash flow is negative = 59er AD is STILL LOSING MONEY NO MATTER HOW YOU SLICE IT.

But they don't need to cut teams, just halve the number of scholies.  Of course, that would pretty much kill the tennis teams anyway because nobody will accept a schollie in that sport to a school where half the roster is walk-ons.  But from what I know, softball is already partial schollie.
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I don't think ANY of the sport-specific numbers include costs of athletic scholarships. That would factor into another category, "Athletically Related Student Aid," which is a lump sum for all sports, period. Surprisingly, despite Title IX, at Cal men's scholies total $5,231,781 in expenses vs. $4,388,461 for women's. Note also that the per-sport estimates are "Operating (Game-Day) Expenses by Team." That probably doesn't include things like weight rooms, rehab, etc., which would be part of the "not allocated by gender or sport" general expenses of $22,775,153.

Wow, athletic departments are expensive!

[2006alum]

[quote author=2006alum link=topic=14588.msg156195#msg156195 date=1455138002]
Also, if they're looking to cut a team, men's tennis costs $18,261 per participant, women's is $20,068, and women's softball is $21,220. Those are the three highest after men's and women's basketball and men's football, all three of which are net revenue generators.

So the whole "we made $9M from operations" is an exercise in how to lie with statistics.  Cash flow from operations is positive, but cash flow from financing is seriously negative.  So overall cash flow is negative = 59er AD is STILL LOSING MONEY NO MATTER HOW YOU SLICE IT.

But they don't need to cut teams, just halve the number of scholies.  Of course, that would pretty much kill the tennis teams anyway because nobody will accept a schollie in that sport to a school where half the roster is walk-ons.  But from what I know, softball is already partial schollie.
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I don't think ANY of the sport-specific numbers include costs of athletic scholarships. That would factor into another category, "Athletically Related Student Aid," which is a lump sum for all sports, period. Surprisingly, despite Title IX, at Cal men's scholies total $5,231,781 in expenses vs. $4,388,461 for women's. Note also that the per-sport estimates are "Operating (Game-Day) Expenses by Team." That probably doesn't include things like weight rooms, rehab, etc., which would be part of the "not allocated by gender or sport" general expenses of $22,775,153.

Wow, athletic departments are expensive!