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LSU Football Made $85 Million During The 2015-16 Academic Year

by Staff Reporter

February 20, 201752 Comments

Crystal LoGiudice-USA TODAY Sports

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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gerkin•89 months

How does beach volleyball make 40k? I didnt know lsu even had beach volleyball

BayouBengal99•89 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

shotcaller1•89 months

And y'all are still poor

DVinBR•89 months

How does golf cost 1 million?

pellietigersaint•89 months

Uclub, travel, away course fees. golf isn't cheap

Run DMC•89 months

Wow. Football has a 65% profit margin. I would take that all day long in any business.

Lesmilesdoesntfloss•89 months

"That means you can say farewell to college football next fall.”-John Bel Edwards.....riiihhggtt..

the4thgen•89 months

While Edwards comment was dumb, his comment had nothing to do with cashflow in the athletic department.

Deltatiger•89 months

how is revenue from the SEC distributed in these figures? Or is it?

pellietigersaint•89 months

pump some money back into mens hoops you dumb arse buffoons. It generates revenue and that place will be packed with a quality product. short sighted on LSU's part. but yeah, lets pay out the arse for Caldwell. that is surely a return on investment

GeologyGrad88•89 months

As long as we have a dumb arse buffoon for a coach, nobody is going to watch that shite show.

pellietigersaint•89 months

look here you nerdy geologist. It doesnt matter if people watch. The Basketball TV money is already allocated. By putting money back into the program I meant shelling out for a real coach.

Hester Carries•89 months

Im interested if facility maintenance/rent/depreciation is charged to the team. If not this "profit" is largely bullshite and basically the result of a subsidy.

Mike da Tigah•89 months

If this were truly a business, some 80 percent of these sports would be eliminated entirely.

BlackPot•89 months

Holy crap LSU has some money pits.

jeff5891•89 months

Money pits that help reduce taxes

Laman1978•89 months

That many programs losing money is normal. LSU is actually one of the only schools in the entire nation that profits froma third sport. Most schools don't profit from any, some profit only from one (mostly football), and most of the remaining have two that net a profit.

Laman1978•89 months

Lexman1•89 months

Separate entity or not. $85 million? Pay the teachers! Isn't it supposed to be student athletes? It should be athlete students. What a travesty!

Azkiger•89 months

The athletic department does (thanks to the profit margin of LSU football), they donate several million each year to the University.

BobABooey•89 months

Time to give the kids a raise!

burke985•89 months

How dafuq can you lose 4 million on women's hoops.

theBru•89 months

I can see baseball tickets going up...

FournetteForEver7•89 months

Time to cut womens basketball

HuRRiCaNe MiLeS•89 months

Cancel women's basketball

Lexman1•89 months

Yet they can't give the teachers a raise, and the university is going broke? Who's fat pockets is all the money going into?

jg8623•89 months

The athletic department is a separate entity from the university

Sid in Lakeshore•89 months

moron.

Mike da Tigah•89 months

Oh too typical...

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DeafVallyBatnR•89 months

How in the world does Men's golf lose almost a Million? I can see it losing money but a million

CHEDBALLZ•89 months

Expenses: Coaches Salary Travel Scholarships Equipment Uniforms Income: Sponsorships ???

CaliTigerHB•89 months

I'm surprised baseball only profits 1.5mil

Laman1978•89 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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