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Most recently published LSU sports financials
Posted on 12/13/25 at 4:35 pm
Posted on 12/13/25 at 4:35 pm
Fiscal year ‘24 sports financials
Edit: added FY 2023 for comparison.football went from 17mil to 22 mil spending in one year. Wish that was broken down a little further to not include supplies.
FY 2023
Edit again: added most recent TAF financials in case anyone is interested. It’s a lot more to go through.
Tiger Athletic Foundation 2023
This is LSU Athletics’ audited financial report for the FY 2024.
At a high level, it shows across all sports:
Where LSU’s athletic revenue comes from (TV/media, ticket sales, donations, etc.)
How that money gets spent (coaching salaries, facilities, support staff, operations)
Out of all LSU athletics, only 2 actually made money last year, revenue over expenditure. Of course we all know football is one of them. They netted 49 million last year. The only other one not in the red made 1 million. Before you look, guess? Kinda surprised me.
People always talk about the money on here, like how much did lsu spend on football last year? Well here it is. It’s broken down extremely well. Too many talking points to point out after looking at it. Some very surprising and some not so surprising.
Edit: added FY 2023 for comparison.football went from 17mil to 22 mil spending in one year. Wish that was broken down a little further to not include supplies.
FY 2023
Edit again: added most recent TAF financials in case anyone is interested. It’s a lot more to go through.
Tiger Athletic Foundation 2023
This is LSU Athletics’ audited financial report for the FY 2024.
At a high level, it shows across all sports:
Where LSU’s athletic revenue comes from (TV/media, ticket sales, donations, etc.)
How that money gets spent (coaching salaries, facilities, support staff, operations)
Out of all LSU athletics, only 2 actually made money last year, revenue over expenditure. Of course we all know football is one of them. They netted 49 million last year. The only other one not in the red made 1 million. Before you look, guess? Kinda surprised me.
People always talk about the money on here, like how much did lsu spend on football last year? Well here it is. It’s broken down extremely well. Too many talking points to point out after looking at it. Some very surprising and some not so surprising.
This post was edited on 12/13/25 at 5:31 pm
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Posted on 12/13/25 at 4:43 pm to bigbonvi
Wow. I am EXTREMELY surprised as well. Would've figured baseball or softball... 
Posted on 12/13/25 at 4:43 pm to bigbonvi
Elite financials. LSU stacked
Posted on 12/13/25 at 4:45 pm to bigbonvi
BK sucking put LSU in the red. Thanks, BK
Posted on 12/13/25 at 4:48 pm to bigbonvi
I knew that answer. I have no answer for why Track and Field is so damn expensive. Over $2 million just for travel!
Posted on 12/13/25 at 4:49 pm to bigbonvi
quote:And that was made simply by existing.
The only other one not in the red made 1 million.
Posted on 12/13/25 at 4:51 pm to bigbonvi
I wasn’t surprised by this. Those are typically the only two profitable sports for major players.
Looking at WBB, salaries/wages alone is 2.5x total revenues generated.
Looking at WBB, salaries/wages alone is 2.5x total revenues generated.
Posted on 12/13/25 at 4:53 pm to bigbonvi
I'm wondering what revenue was deferred? The balance sheet shows LSU Athletics is negative 35M, but it's only because of that.
Only other surprise to me was baseball not at least breaking even.
Only other surprise to me was baseball not at least breaking even.
Posted on 12/13/25 at 4:53 pm to bigbonvi
If Kim’s WBB is so popular maybe the ticket prices for that sport should be raised. I have 4 season tickets. Between WBB, WSB and gymnastics those 3 sports lose $17M. That’s crazy. I have 9 season tickets between those 3 sports.
This needs to be looked at strictly from a business standpoint. How can we justify losing $8M on women’s BB?
Give Jay the money and make a deal that each guy who goes through the program and becomes a multimillionaire in MLB give back 2% of their incomes.
Make that deal on women’s sports and you’ll still be broke.
This needs to be looked at strictly from a business standpoint. How can we justify losing $8M on women’s BB?
Give Jay the money and make a deal that each guy who goes through the program and becomes a multimillionaire in MLB give back 2% of their incomes.
Make that deal on women’s sports and you’ll still be broke.
Posted on 12/13/25 at 4:55 pm to dovehunter
Title 9 makes your proposal messy. You're not wrong, but this is what dumb laws do to businesses when you take actual merit out of it.
Posted on 12/13/25 at 4:56 pm to bigbonvi
I love LSU baseball. I didn't think it would make us a lot, but I never expected it to be a net loss...
Posted on 12/13/25 at 4:56 pm to LafTiger
quote:
Title 9 makes your proposal messy.
Ding-ding…
Posted on 12/13/25 at 4:57 pm to dovehunter
quote:
Give Jay the money and make a deal that each guy who goes through the program and becomes a multimillionaire in MLB give back 2% of their incomes.
I hope you're not being serious. This is a choice. Most athletes do give back to the program but it should still be their choice.
Posted on 12/13/25 at 5:00 pm to dovehunter
BK doesn’t deserve credit for anything. Football would make $50M if Curley was the coach. In fact we would have made more since Curley would have done the job for $1,000,000 vs. $10M and gotten the same results.
Posted on 12/13/25 at 5:05 pm to savecf101
I did too. Just imagine what that number could be if you have a tourney team and sold out arenas and increase season ticket holders with a good coach and product on floor. I’d be curious to know what basketball netted each year WW was here.
Dumb question but what revenue is athletic admin generating? What that’s revenue item include?
Dumb question but what revenue is athletic admin generating? What that’s revenue item include?
This post was edited on 12/13/25 at 5:06 pm
Posted on 12/13/25 at 5:07 pm to bigbonvi
Jesus. Search for Unrecorded Revenues must be a pain for the auditors
Posted on 12/13/25 at 5:09 pm to 304tiger
quote:
I love LSU baseball. I didn't think it would make us a lot, but I never expected it to be a net loss...
Too lazy to look it up but I think its been that way for a while. We have broken even/profited but that isnt the norm.
Posted on 12/13/25 at 5:12 pm to friendlyobservation
Of course. I’m just saying give Jay the money and we’ll be some proud of the results and the money these guys will earn will be phenomenal. This will in turn result in a huge return for LSU. Can that happen in women’s beach volleyball? It can’t even happen in the WNBA.
This Title 9 thing should be unconstitutional. It’s like giving all the kids a participation trophy. It’s subsidized like way too many things in government and costs way more than it returns.
This Title 9 thing should be unconstitutional. It’s like giving all the kids a participation trophy. It’s subsidized like way too many things in government and costs way more than it returns.
Posted on 12/13/25 at 5:29 pm to bigbonvi
Baseball would be positive if Jay would quit spending so much time in Omaha, those hotel rooms ain't cheap
Posted on 12/13/25 at 5:29 pm to bigbonvi
Sports productions, is that all media or just LSU media?
Also merchandise, that's just merch sold at games and events?
Only reason i'm asking is that there is still more revenue that should be counted, I think.
Licensing, TV contracts, SEC revenue, etc. Or is that included in those numbers?
Do you have daughters?
Also merchandise, that's just merch sold at games and events?
Only reason i'm asking is that there is still more revenue that should be counted, I think.
Licensing, TV contracts, SEC revenue, etc. Or is that included in those numbers?
quote:
This Title 9 thing should be unconstitutional.
Do you have daughters?
This post was edited on 12/13/25 at 5:33 pm
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