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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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wallowinit•87 months

I guess those gymnastics tickets are free?

theBru•87 months

Need to hike the price, supply & demand...

BIWO•87 months

Bet LSU Basketball doesn't make a profit this year.

Cosmo•87 months

Basketball will profit. Still gets plenty of TV money.

pellietigersaint•87 months

season tix were bought before the season hoss

Kid nice•87 months

How did beach volleyball spend $528,000?

barry•87 months

travel

findaway•87 months

Staff.

MaHittaMaHitta•87 months

training room supplies?

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Solo Cam•87 months

Wonder what it would have been if we would have fired miles and made a playoff run.

Spankum•87 months

would not have been any different, as home games are sold out regardless and bowl/playoff revenues are split among all SEC teams...

Mr Fusion•87 months

But there would have been a significant increase in merchandise sales associated with a playoff run.

LSU Wayne•87 months

Softball kicking women's basketball arse

LSUvet72•87 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

SpeckTigerLure•87 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!!

PeteRose•87 months

Title 9 should be called "title leeching". At least i'll respect it for being honest.

CaliTigerHB•87 months

I'm surprised baseball only profits 1.5mil

Laman1978•87 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.

DeafVallyBatnR•87 months

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

CHEDBALLZ•87 months

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

Lexman1•87 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•87 months

The athletic department is a separate entity from the university

Sid in Lakeshore•87 months

moron.

Mike da Tigah•87 months

Oh too typical...

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HuRRiCaNe MiLeS•87 months

Cancel women's basketball

FournetteForEver7•87 months

Time to cut womens basketball

theBru•87 months

I can see baseball tickets going up...

burke985•87 months

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

BobABooey•87 months

Time to give the kids a raise!

Lexman1•87 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•87 months

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

BlackPot•87 months

Holy crap LSU has some money pits.

jeff5891•87 months

Money pits that help reduce taxes

Laman1978•87 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•87 months

Mike da Tigah•87 months

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

Hester Carries•87 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.

pellietigersaint•87 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•87 months

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

pellietigersaint•87 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.

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