[Vision2020] Sports Budgets

[Carl Westberg]

The U of I will never match the level of success in football (which is really the straw that stirs the drink in college athletics) that BSU has.  Too many built in advantages in the Treasure Valley, including, in a metro area of 500K plus, multitudes of wild-eyed Bronco fans who have never set a foot in a BSU classroom, and have no concerns about Boise State University as a genuine institution of higher learning.  For them, the school exists only to provide them with a football team to vicariously pin their self-esteem on.  I've resisted the notion for years, but (particularly considering that as of now and for the foreseeable future no D-1 conference wants the Vandals) perhaps the time has come for the powers that be to seriously look at a return to the Big Sky Conference.  To attempt to stay D-1 in football now means playing as an independent, which would mean a paucity of home games, and more losses to bigger schools away from home.  Teams that will refuse to play in the Kibbie Dome, because it is "too small".  The U of I has been spurned by any remaining D-1 conferences that might have given the team a home.  The big Sky actually wants the University of Idaho.  What a concept.  If I wrote this on Vandal Venue, I'd be toast....

Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 07:37:59 -0700
From: ckovis at turbonet.com
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Sports Budgets


  
    
  
  
    
      By Brian Murphy

      bmurphy at idahostatesman.com
    Boise State and Idaho submitted their projected Fiscal Year 2013
      budgets to the State Board of Education late last month.
    Here are some highlights:
     Boise State 
    • The Broncos are projected to have $32.4 million in operating
      revenue.
    • Boise State will spend $33.4 million in operating expenditures.
    • Boise State will spend $7.4 million in facility maintenance and
      debt service.
    • Expenditures by sport (top 4): football ($8.8 million), men's
      basketball ($1.6 million), women's basketball ($1.1 million),
      softball ($611,419).
    • Revenues by sport (top 4): football ($8.8 million), men's
      basketball ($414,528), women's basketball ($10,000), women's
      soccer ($7,170).
    • Boise State generates 78 percent of its budget from program
      revenue, 11 percent of its budget from student fee revenue, 10
      percent from state support and 1 percent from institutional
      support.
     Idaho 
    • The Vandals are projected to have $15.1 million in operating
      revenue.
    • Idaho will spend $15.1 million in operating expenditures.
    • Expenditures by sport (top 4): football ($5.1 million), men's
      basketball ($1.3 million), women's basketball ($1.1 million),
      women's volleyball ($720,074).
    • Revenues by sport (top 4): football ($2.8 million), men's
      basketball ($132,000), women's basketball ($38,250), volleyball
      ($10,000).
    • Idaho projects to make $440,000 in football ticket sales.
    • Idaho generates 57 percent of its budget from program revenue,
      16 percent of its budget from student fee revenue, 22 percent from
      state support and 5 percent from institutional support.
    

      Read more here:
http://voices.idahostatesman.com/2012/07/02/bmurphy/boise_state_324_million_idaho_151_million_submit_athletic_budget#storylink=cpy
  


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