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NDSU TO FBS. HAVEN'T WE WON ENOUGH?
Bison to MWC - Links?
Am always interested in reading of interest the MWC has in NDSU.
lots of articles: https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&sour...64015242884016
this article put NDSU in the MAC
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&sour...64014844714732
NDSU TO FBS. HAVEN'T WE WON ENOUGH?
Where this gets really old lakes is you throw this out, but you have no mechanism nor in all likelihood does the university have a way to fund. Even if everyone like you aggressively increased team maker contributions 50%. so in your case going from $100 to $150/year. You don't even make a dent in what is needed to move anywhere.
Now realize to, the additional $20 million lets say to move up is hard to come by, the next issue you need to solve is facilities.
How do you compete with this?
https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_ro...9b0f1595c.html
Don't say this is an extreme example cause its the SEC. Wyoming did a large upgrade to football facilities, Northwestern dropped over $100 million.
So even if you double your contribution to $200/year. We are outclassed.
What say you?
It'd cost NDSU $8-10 million more per year to move up with all sports. even less with Football Only membership.
college football playoff money = $2-3 million per mwc/mac school
Big Dance money = $2-3 million per school
Tv contract money = $2-3 mllion per school
That jumps NDSU from $20 million budget up to $26-27 million range and right in the middle of the mwc/mac
NDSU TO FBS. HAVEN'T WE WON ENOUGH?
Wow... a quick fact check shows that there may not be one single accurate item in your entire post.
It'd cost NDSU $8-10 million more per year to move up with all sports.
According to the USA Today's database NDSU's budget in '16/'17 (the last year I could find data for) was roughly $27.3M. The average budget for MAC schools that year was $32.1 but for MWC schools it was $43.9M (so I guess you got that one half right).
college football playoff money = $2-3 million per mwc/mac school
For the 2017 bowl season (couldn't find 2018 numbers) there was roughly $81.3M from CFP money earmarked for the G5 that was allegedly distributed equally among the conferences (link). That means about $16.2M per conference which would be $1.35M per MAC school or $1.5M over per MWC school if they allocated every penny of it to the member schools.
Big Dance money = $2-3 million per school
As of the 2013 tournament the MWC NCAA Tourney TV money share was $6.6M (for the whole conference) and the MAC's share was $2.2M (link). I realize that's 6 years old now but those revenues haven't gone of the 6 to 15 times they'd need to in order to hit those amounts you referenced.
Tv contract money = $2-3 mllion per school
While the deal they're on expires in the summer of 2020 the current MWC TV deal with CBS Sports pays out $1.1M per school (link). MAC schools make $670K per school from their ESPN TV deal (link).
That jumps NDSU from $20 million budget up to $26-27 million range and right in the middle of the mwc/mac
So adding those 3 line items to NDSU's $27.3M budget (and I'll be generous and say NCAA tourney payouts are double now for those conferences compared to what they were in 2013) that would add $3.8M to NDSU's theoretical MWC budget. That would put them at $31.1M which is dead last (although close to San Jose St at $31.3M). Adding the $2.2M to NDSU's theoretical MAC budget would put them at $29.4M or between 8th and 9th out of the current 12 teams in the MAC.
Those numbers at https://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/finances/ really tell you all you need to know about how a typical MAC/MWC athletic department is funded. On average MAC schools are getting about $21.6M in "revenue" from student fees and school funds ($8.7M on average from student fees and $12.9M on average from school funds). For the MWC it's $20.1M on average in "revenue" from student fees and school funds ($4.6M in student fees and $15.5M in school funds).
For the 2017 year that those numbers from the other conferences came from NDSU had $7.9M in revenue from those two areas; a little over $1.4M in student fees and about $6.5M in school funds. Good luck squeezing more out of those oranges especially to the point that it would take to be at the MAC or MWC level.
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