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Some Comments
Posted on: January 20, 2023 at 16:28:00 CT
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1. I assume the numbers are for the July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022 fical year. The University, including the Athletic Departmeent, operates on a fiscal rather than calendar year.
2. There isn't a lot of detail in the posted material.
3. I would suspect the increase in revenue is most likely due to three factors:
a. Imporoved football attendance due to the winding down of the covid epidemic.
b. Improved football attendance due to some increase in interest and support for the team, i.e. the Drink effect.
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c. Increased payout from the SEC's media rights deal.
d. Increased donastions to the athletic departemrnt due to Drinkwitz seeking an all weasther indoor practice facility.
3. There is no data regarding how the Tiger AD ranks vis a viee the other SEC schools. It has generally been in the lower third of the conference in athletic department revenue. If the increase is due primarily to the new SEC TV deal, then every SEC school has more money and Mizzou's competitive position vis a vie the other SEC schools may not have improved. If memory serves the "improved" revenue number is still less than Texas and Oklahoma's revenue numbers in the Big XII.
4. The "increase" in AD revenue is not very significant compared to Mizzou's overall budget. If memory serves and, I will plead guilty to being hazy on this point, Mizzou's total annual budget is in the area of 1.5 billion or more.
5. My primary complaint against Mizzou and the Missouri legislature is that over the past thirty years or so they have allowed Mizzou's academic reputation to decline.
From the 1960's through the 1980's Mizzou's academic reputation climed to the point where is was in the low 70's, perhaps even breaking into the 60's in the U.S. News annaul rankings. Today those same rankings put it somewhere in the 120 range.
Quality higher education and research are major contributors to a states economic health and growth. Mizzou's failure to continue to improve as an academic institution has short changed the citizens of the State of Missour.
2. There isn't a lot of detail in the posted material.
3. I would suspect the increase in revenue is most likely due to three factors:
a. Imporoved football attendance due to the winding down of the covid epidemic.
b. Improved football attendance due to some increase in interest and support for the team, i.e. the Drink effect.
o
c. Increased payout from the SEC's media rights deal.
d. Increased donastions to the athletic departemrnt due to Drinkwitz seeking an all weasther indoor practice facility.
3. There is no data regarding how the Tiger AD ranks vis a viee the other SEC schools. It has generally been in the lower third of the conference in athletic department revenue. If the increase is due primarily to the new SEC TV deal, then every SEC school has more money and Mizzou's competitive position vis a vie the other SEC schools may not have improved. If memory serves the "improved" revenue number is still less than Texas and Oklahoma's revenue numbers in the Big XII.
4. The "increase" in AD revenue is not very significant compared to Mizzou's overall budget. If memory serves and, I will plead guilty to being hazy on this point, Mizzou's total annual budget is in the area of 1.5 billion or more.
5. My primary complaint against Mizzou and the Missouri legislature is that over the past thirty years or so they have allowed Mizzou's academic reputation to decline.
From the 1960's through the 1980's Mizzou's academic reputation climed to the point where is was in the low 70's, perhaps even breaking into the 60's in the U.S. News annaul rankings. Today those same rankings put it somewhere in the 120 range.
Quality higher education and research are major contributors to a states economic health and growth. Mizzou's failure to continue to improve as an academic institution has short changed the citizens of the State of Missour.
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