Two other things about baseball:
100% agree- would like to see how they “allocate” revenue and expenses. With acctg and stats t can be like’ “what do u want the answer to be”Gotta love accounting (tic). Would love to see a breakdown of revenue and expenses per sport. How is BTN revenue split? Where are capital expenses like Beaver stadium, Rec Hall, Pegula, and Jordan center? Does parking count? Is Rev Share baked in? Where is NLC revenue? What sports have endowments?
Oh Hell nevermind --- we were the 3rd highest revenue sport... we are good to go wrestle
I would think golf is cheaper as kids tend to have their own clubs and golf teams are not very big
Women's BB lost $4.7 million. Ouch!
Also travel. Most trips are usually multi-day affairs. Wrestling lucked out this year with Big 10s at PSU.
The enormous trophy case?
Wrestling revenue:
Wrestling Expenses
)I think you can cut $7k - marketing! Why?Wrestling Expenses
Scholarships $794,215
Coaches Salaries (not broken down)
Support Staff $412.505
Recruiting $92,576
Travel $376,893
Equipment $130,085
Visiting Team Exp $18,000
Marketing $7,069
Sports Camps $389,409
Rental Fees $3,090
Facilities Maintenance $20,419
Memberships & Dues $3,310
Student Meals $25,752
Other $775,352 (includes team banquets and awards --- those rings aren't cheap
NCAA Post Season $370,508
NCAA Post Season bonuses $316,491
Enhanced education expenses $194,290
Revenus Share $1,449,766
TOTAL $7,865,075
Salaries implied at $2,485,345Wrestling Expenses
Scholarships $794,215
Coaches Salaries (not broken down)
Support Staff $412.505
Recruiting $92,576
Travel $376,893
Equipment $130,085
Visiting Team Exp $18,000
Marketing $7,069
Sports Camps $389,409
Rental Fees $3,090
Facilities Maintenance $20,419
Memberships & Dues $3,310
Student Meals $25,752
Other $775,352 (includes team banquets and awards --- those rings aren't cheap
NCAA Post Season $370,508
NCAA Post Season bonuses $316,491
Enhanced education expenses $194,290
Revenus Share $1,449,766
TOTAL $7,865,075
Without the $1.5M in revenue share, PSU Wrestling lost $223k -- which could easily be made up by increasing tickets by less than $4 per person.
Less than 1% of the team's expenses. Also next to nothing for promoting, say, the 3 BJC Duals and the preseason All-Star event.
Along the same lines, sports like water polo and beach volley ball are prominent in a good number of West Coast schools (and other places too). USC and UCLA are those in the current B1G which are active in both.
If you browse the big file, there is parking listed for Football and Ice Hockey but none for wrestling
At you didn’t say beach volley ball. ‘“Obviously“ that, or water polo, aren’t in the cards at Penn State, at least in this universe.
That $794,215 for scholarships is a huge increase in expenses! That comes out to ~30 scholarships (so basically the entire roster is getting a full scholarship). It was a lot cheaper when there was a limit of 9.9. I think that was one change that everyone kind of overlooked.Wrestling Expenses
Scholarships $794,215
Coaches Salaries (not broken down)
Support Staff $412.505
Recruiting $92,576
Travel $376,893
Equipment $130,085
Visiting Team Exp $18,000
Marketing $7,069
Sports Camps $389,409
Rental Fees $3,090
Facilities Maintenance $20,419
Memberships & Dues $3,310
Student Meals $25,752
Other $775,352 (includes team banquets and awards --- those rings aren't cheap
NCAA Post Season $370,508
NCAA Post Season bonuses $316,491
Enhanced education expenses $194,290
Revenus Share $1,449,766
TOTAL $7,865,075
Only reason men’s basketball generates any revenue is the 9million from BigTen broadcasting. Ticket sales are same as wrestling at $1.6 million and $1 million less than wrestling contributions and endowments. Thank God the other BigTen schools are great at basketball and share the revenue.
I would rather go with kind of sad and ridiculous Penn State doesn't even bother to try at basketball.
That was a 2025 number. According to the 103 page doc that was linked, 17 were getting 9.9 equivalents. That puts a one year cost around 80k which is crazy, but probably accurate.
Plus the $316K in post season bonuses. I am only guessing here, but I bet Cody and Casey make more than most D1 Head coaches. Regarding the bonuses, I would imagine some of the bonus categories are team championship, number of champions, number of AA's, and tournament scoring record. It will be interesting to see how the bonuses for 2025's two champions and ten AA's compares to the 2026 bonuses for four champions and eight AA's.
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If we bring in the former Oklahoma state coach to consult, we could lower the student meal expense by half.
), here's the link to Penn State Athletics financial reports:
Good catch. For that comment I was implying that the West Coast schools were the two in Los Angeles. Washington and Oregon certainly fall Into that classification too.