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LSU Football made $85 million during the 2015-2016 academic year, with a profit of more than $55 million, according to The Advocate.
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Tigers football made $85 million in the 2015-16 academic year, turning a profit of more than $55 million. That’s according to two documents obtained by The Advocate: an audit of the athletic department released by the Louisiana Legislative Auditor and an NCAA financial report the school released.

In football, LSU made $3 million more in tickets sales during the 2015 season as it did 2014 because of two games, the audit says: the canceled McNeese State season opener and the relocated South Carolina game.
According to the report, LSU men's basketball made $2.3 million and baseball made $1.5 million. All other sports lost money.



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CaliTigerHB•111 months
I'm surprised baseball only profits 1.5mil
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Laman1978•111 months
LSU, Texas, and maybe a couple of others are the only schools in the entire nation that profit from baseball. 1.5 is very good for that sport.
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SpeckTigerLure•111 months
Title 9 crap. Ironic thing is instead of creating equality they have created entitlement as evidenced by the number of men's sports eliminated they the years and the number of meaningless women's sports NO ONE cares about is growing!!
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PeteRose•111 months
Title 9 should be called "title leeching". At least i'll respect it for being honest.
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HuRRiCaNe MiLeS•111 months
Cancel women's basketball
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LSUvet72•111 months
This frank analysis should illustrate the importance of not allowing LSU football program of declining the least little bit as it supports all other sports
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FournetteForEver7•111 months
Time to cut womens basketball
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BIWO•111 months
Bet LSU Basketball doesn't make a profit this year.
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Cosmo•111 months
Basketball will profit. Still gets plenty of TV money.
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pellietigersaint•111 months
season tix were bought before the season hoss
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burke985•111 months
How dafuq can you lose 4 million on women's hoops.
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DeafVallyBatnR•111 months
How in the world does Men's golf lose almost a Million? I can see it losing money but a million
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CHEDBALLZ•111 months
Expenses:

Coaches Salary
Travel
Scholarships
Equipment
Uniforms


Income:
Sponsorships
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wallowinit•111 months
I guess those gymnastics tickets are free?
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theBru•111 months
Need to hike the price, supply & demand...
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Solo Cam•111 months
Wonder what it would have been if we would have fired miles and made a playoff run.
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Spankum•111 months
would not have been any different, as home games are sold out regardless and bowl/playoff revenues are split among all SEC teams...
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Mr Fusion•111 months
But there would have been a significant increase in merchandise sales associated with a playoff run.
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Lesmilesdoesntfloss•111 months
"That means you can say farewell to college football next fall.”-John Bel Edwards.....riiihhggtt..
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the4thgen•111 months
While Edwards comment was dumb, his comment had nothing to do with cashflow in the athletic department.
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Kid nice•111 months
How did beach volleyball spend $528,000?
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barry•111 months
travel
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findaway•111 months
Staff.
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MaHittaMaHitta•111 months
training room supplies?
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theBru•111 months
I can see baseball tickets going up...
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LSU Wayne•111 months
Softball kicking women's basketball arse
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BayouBengal99•111 months
Weren't we earning in the 100mils when we were winning all those games and playing in the big bowls? Thats a pretty big drop off
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Run DMC•111 months
Wow. Football has a 65% profit margin. I would take that all day long in any business.
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gerkin•111 months
How does beach volleyball make 40k? I didnt know lsu even had beach volleyball
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shotcaller1•111 months
And y'all are still poor
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DVinBR•111 months
How does golf cost 1 million?
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pellietigersaint•111 months
Uclub, travel, away course fees. golf isn't cheap
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Deltatiger•111 months
how is revenue from the SEC distributed in these figures? Or is it?
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