Here’s a slideshow from Al.com, ranking the conference football programs by revenues.
Too lazy to click through? Okay, here’s the list:
- Alabama, $97.02 million
- Tennessee, $94.37 million
- Auburn, $86.74 million
- Georgia, $86.71 million
- LSU, $86.31 million
- Florida, $74.72 million
- Arkansas, $66.17 million
- Texas A&M, $62.19 million
- South Carolina, $59.76 million
- Ole Miss, $53.39 million
- Missouri, $37.89 million
- Kentucky, $35.49 million
- Mississippi State, $31.3 million
- Vanderbilt, $27.4 million
My first thought on seeing that is to wonder what in the hell has Tennessee been doing with all that money – keep in mind that according to the article that gross was good enough for a whopping $70 million profit. (In case you’re wondering, Georgia managed a $60.6 million profit.)
Other than that, it’s a pretty expected spread. It takes money to win big. Surprised?
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Sooo glad UT was in the top 5, otherwise we’d have been subjected to an endless stream of “Georgia’s the only one in the top 5 without a NC!!!”
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1998 doesn’t count?
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That would be the only one in the top 6. If you’re counting the past 20 years, Tennessee had one in ’98.
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If we count the last 36 years, Georgia had one. How far are we going back? Ha.
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Haha I thought about that after it posted. Touché. I understand.
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What is UF doing that low?
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My thoughts exactly.
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Don’t you mean FU?
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Jorts are just less expensive right now than other player apparel. Well until under armor gets ahold of them….
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You know, I was 27 years old before I found out people made fun of jean shorts.
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It wasn’t always so. Jean shorts used to be associated with Dead Heads and (for me) swimming in a lake/river that was muddy. About 20 years ago I noticed that we used this as an insult against Flarduh.
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As we know, revenues have never been the problem for Georgia.
The amount of ‘revenue’ that actually goes back into the athletic programs IS the problem.
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Ole Miss is good at hiding money. 🙂
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Wasn’t UT Knoxville pretty heavily in the red just a few years ago?
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UT is putting it all in a reserve fund to [pay for the settlements from the Title IX lawsuits………….
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Thank you for the list. Because I WAS to lazy to click through!
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At this point, I like to think I know my audience. 😉
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First!
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Well, one things for sure, they ain’t spendin that money on field improvements.
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The financial wizards at UGA.
Did you hear that pop from their firecracker. That is what we call getting a bang for your buck.
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