NCAA Division I College Athletic Fiscal Efficiencies and Returns: In-Depth Look at Football Expenditures

Part One of a four-part, fiscal efficiencies series: (Part Two: Basketball Expenditures) (Part Three: Fiscal Trends and Measures) (Part Four: Revenue, Expenditure, and ROI) Given resource constraints for programs of all sizes, this article explores the three areas of direct connections between Division I…

Full StoryDecember 6, 2011

Imagining a New NCAA Compliance Manual — A Progressive Proposal for Reform and Enforcement

By: John Infante NCAA Expert for Athnet and creator of The Bylaw Blog NCAA President Mark Emmert’s two-day August 2011 retreat covered “four threats to the integrity of college sports: a lack of shared responsibility, a preponderance of rules that…

Full StoryNovember 29, 2011

Maximizing Revenue and Improving Value of Your Next Apparel Rights Agreement

The following is designed to provide athletic directors (ADs) with an efficient and effective way to increase and ultimately maximize the revenue and improve the value of their institution’s next apparel rights agreement. This primer addresses three topics that are…

Full StoryNovember 15, 2011

Weather’s Influence on Baseball Recruiting Performance

Do warm weather schools possess an advantage in college baseball player recruitment? Intuitively, we can surmise the short answer: how could they not? Given the nature of the sport, we assume that colleges situated in more temperate climates are better…

Full StoryNovember 15, 2011

Men’s Basketball Summer Camps – Contract Structures between Coach and School

Because camps represent an income stream for coaches, a recruiting pipeline for schools (e.g., Butler) and a branding opportunity for programs, we reviewed nearly 100 men’s basketball head coach contracts from the 2009-2010 season. Below we provide sample language from…

Full StoryNovember 8, 2011

Spring Sports – Select Star Coaches

Ray Tanner’s South Carolina Gamecocks zipped through the 2011 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament to claim their second consecutive national championship with a series sweep of conference rival Florida in the College World Series (CWS) final. The clinching win set…

Full StoryNovember 1, 2011

Football Recruiting Performance

We researched 10 years (2001-2010) and 12,000+ NCAA D-I football players’ recruiting class ranking to explore relationships between 3+ star recruits and all other recruits for two things: success on the field (wins) and success in developing talent (NFL draft picks) …

Full StoryOctober 11, 2011

Maximizing the Revenue in Your Next Multimedia Rights Agreement

As a follow-up to our research (“How Every D-I Athletic Director Can Benefit from IMG’s $100M ISP Purchase” ), this article examines the three considerations for revenue optimization for multimedia rights (MMR). 1. Annual revenue amounts from the two most popular…

Full StoryOctober 8, 2011

Digital Food Concessions & Merchandise Sales – Improving the Fan Experience and Increasing Revenue

By: Ray Purpur Deputy Director of Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation at Stanford University Stanford built a new football stadium in 2006. Improving the fan experience and increasing revenue were two of the many goals at the drawing table. In this…

Full StoryOctober 1, 2011

The Role of Alma Mater in Coach Selection and Performance – Men’s Basketball

To consider this question, we analyzed the final results of 629 coaching stints of coaches active in the last ten years – a stint being defined as one coach’s time as the head coach at a single school – with…

Full StorySeptember 13, 2011