The following is the University of Minnesota's 2000-2001 athletic department revenue and
expense numbers, published today in the Star & Tribune. Given that the athletic department is
self-funded (no University general funds), three sports pay for the remaining twenty. With a
chronically underperforming football program, from a revenue generating perspective, is it an
wonder that the ticket prices for Gopher Hockey games are so high.
I also found the contrast in the women's basketball numbers pretty stunning (ignore that it needed
to qualified by saying "women's" and just compare the numbers to any other sport). And can
anybody explain why (women's) volleyball would cost more than (women's) hockey? I can't
imagine that they traveled that much more and certainly the equipment doesn't cost more.
Doug Peterson
Total Total Profit/
expenses revenues loss
Men's basketball
$2,760,800 $9,059,500 $6,298,700
Men's hockey
1,412,500 5,457,500 4,045,000
Football
7,275,800 10,253,000 2,977,200
Non-revenue producing sports
There was a $9.8 million loss among the 20 non-revenue sports.
Total Total Profit/
expenses revenues loss
Women's basketball
1,268,112 44,578 -1,223,534
Women's volleyball
894,561 121,765 -772,796
Men's track and field/cross country
785,567 24,009 -761,558
Women's hockey
767,058 64,464 -702,594
Men's baseball
767,891 82,951 -684,940
Women's track and field/cross country
674,489 18,174 -656,315
Men's swimming and diving
551,075 16,257 -534,818
Women's rowing
523,820 1,650 -522,170
Women's gymnastics
553,422 37,773 -515,649
Women's softball
553,482 39,779 -513,973
Women's soccer
513,657 34,987 -478,670
Women's swimming and diving
506,389 29,687 -476,702
Men's wrestling
550,979 112,668 -438,311
Men's gymanstics
363,185 4,497 -358,688
Women's tennis
350,845 3,247 -347,598
Men's tennis
383,226 60,977 -322,249
Men's golf
332,932 25,062 -307,870
Women's golf
242,153 5,064 -237,089
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