2018-2019 Men's Basketball Budgets

[EvanJ]

https://www.three-man-weave.com/3mw/col ... dgets-2020 has 2018-2019 Men's Basketball budgets. It excludes Air Force, Army, Navy, and LIU (service academies and LIU that merged). It includes Division II budgets for Merrimack whose first Division I season was 2019-2020, and UC San Diego, Bellarmine, Tarleton State, and Dixie State who will move up to Division I. It has 353 schools. The mean is $4,204,020, and the median is UC Riverside with $2,485,812. 109 schools (30.88 percent) spend above the mean, which is why the mean is so much higher than the media. The range is Duke spending $22,178,473 to Alcorn State spending $533,743. Alcorn State, who is known for quarterback Steve McNair, was the subject of a long article by ESPN's Dana O'Neill about the have-nots at https://www.espn.com/mens-college-baske ... id=3221302 that I have already linked to in other topics. I read that the top schools spend more per player than the bottom schools spend on their whole team. If you define a team as 15 players (more than the scholarship limit, but teams have walk-ons and can use 18+ players in a season), Duke spent more per player than 66 schools (18.70 percent) did.

The CAA ranks 12th of 32 conferences, which is surprising because it ranked 18th in attendance and had no conference-wide TV deal in 2018-2019, so I would expect CAA teams to spend less. Here are the CAA teams:

114. W&M: $3,970,949
134. Charleston: $3,289,426
137. Elon: $3,221,829
139. Northeastern: $3,207,255
152. Hofstra: $2,939,154
158. Delaware: $2,785,559
160. Drexel: $2,760,011
161. JMU: $2,709,807
193. UNCW: $2,317,837
199. Towson: $2,259,918
Mean: $2,946,174.50 (four schools spend more than the mean)
Median (mean of middle two numbers): $2,862,356.50
Ratio of highest to lowest: 1.757
Mean of six public schools: $2,888,916
Mean of four private schools (Elon, Northeastern, us, and Drexel): $3,032,062.25
Mean of five schools that play Football (W&M, Elon, Delaware, JMU, and Towson): $2,989,612.40
Mean of five schools that do not play Football: $2,902,736.60
Mean of five schools from the America East: $2,790,379.40
Mean of five schools in VA, NC, and SC: $3,101,969.60

I gave decimal places in the means even though it wasn't in the original data. I'm not suggesting that categories such as being public or private affect how much money schools spend, but I'm giving it to compare the categories.

[triplec2195]

Maybe it sounds crazy but I would like to see some kind of itemization roughly how this money is being spent. It seems odd that W&M is spending more then a million dollars more then we are and almost $700 thousand higher then the next CAA school. How is that??

[stuball888]

I think it includes Tony Shavers buyout of his contract

[EvanJ]

It didn't provide details, so I can't confirm or deny if Shaver's buyout was included. I was able to find the original source at https://ope.ed.gov/athletics/#/compare/details , which says 2018. 2018 could mean 2017-2018 or 2018-2019, and I hope Three Man Weave was correct that it's for 2018-2019. You could compare up to four schools at a time, so I broke the CAA into three groups. I can't attach a PDF to a post, but if you tell me your e-mail address I will send you a file.