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re: I’m good with putting all finances towards football and baseball
Posted on 3/16/25 at 2:06 pm to H-Town Tiger
Posted on 3/16/25 at 2:06 pm to H-Town Tiger
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Men’s basketball is the only sport besides football that makes revenue would be stupid to ignore it. Football is the priority but it is a false choice to say you must choose either baseball or basketball
MBB makes money due to its share of conference TV and postseason revenue. It has little to do with the strength of the team or lack thereof.
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Posted on 3/16/25 at 2:10 pm to MikeTheTiger71
Eh, that’s only the case when we’re a bottom dweller the way we are currently. When we’re making the post season we double what we’re pulling in now.
Posted on 3/16/25 at 2:17 pm to Endorphins
These are basically ignorant lies. The baseball team does not make a profit every year and live attendance at baseball games can't come close to tv revenue for basketball. You baseball fanatics never seem to comprehend how few parts of the country care about college baseball. College basketball has a much bigger fanbase nationwide.
Posted on 3/16/25 at 2:26 pm to Tom Bronco
That’s not what I said. You are compartmentalizing my sentences. I was comparing our baseball team numbers against our basketball numbers directly.
Basketball doesn’t bring in the top attendance numbers in the sec. There are reasons why I used those specific characterizations.
And baseball does turn profit almost every year. If it doesn’t once in a 2-5 year period it is an anomaly. They aren’t lies, you just compared it and comprehended it differently in a way that I didn’t intend it to.
Basketball doesn’t bring in the top attendance numbers in the sec. There are reasons why I used those specific characterizations.
And baseball does turn profit almost every year. If it doesn’t once in a 2-5 year period it is an anomaly. They aren’t lies, you just compared it and comprehended it differently in a way that I didn’t intend it to.
Posted on 3/16/25 at 2:46 pm to Jack Daniel
quote:uhhh… no.
I’m good with putting all finances towards football and baseball
Posted on 3/16/25 at 3:10 pm to H-Town Tiger
Baseball has generated + revenue for years until last season. Get your shite straight before you talk non-sense.
Posted on 3/16/25 at 3:14 pm to misey94
You and I have a different definition of "pulling their own weight". I suggest you check out the financial report LSU releases annually that details which two sports operate in the black, and how much each of the other sports HEMMEROGE cash.
Posted on 3/16/25 at 3:16 pm to Jack Daniel
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Basketball meh
Wrong
Posted on 3/16/25 at 3:16 pm to Jack Daniel
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with revenue sharing coming on top of the NIL era, LSU obviously doesn’t have the funds to compete in all 3 sports.
Tell that to Tennessee. They sure seem to have cracked the code and don’t even try to tell me they got way more money than LSU. It’s equal if anything
Posted on 3/16/25 at 3:28 pm to Jack Daniel
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We are the most storied program in college baseball. We need to double down there and dominate every year.
Basketball meh
Thanks for your opinion. I'm sure the administration will consider it
Posted on 3/16/25 at 3:44 pm to Endorphins
Please provide link for proof that baseball turns a profit.
Posted on 3/16/25 at 3:45 pm to Tom Bronco
It has in a few seasons but not every year up until last season like that poster is suggesting.
Posted on 3/16/25 at 3:46 pm to Jack Daniel
I agree 100%...roundball meh
Posted on 3/16/25 at 3:47 pm to Lakeboy7
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The Wadepanzees keep posting this so lets see the numbers side by side for mens BB and womens BB.
All I've seen so far is mens BB makes a 100 million a year and womens BB loses 100 million.
So lets see a revenue breakdown for attendance, concessions, tv money etc.
Here you go:
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The only other LSU sport to turn a profit was men’s basketball, which finished with a $1.03 million profit. Ticket sales and contributions dipped slightly during coach Matt McMahon’s second season, causing a smaller profit than the year before ($1.34 million), but the sport remained in the black for the third straight year.
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The investment has turned LSU women’s basketball into a consistent national contender under Mulkey, but the program lost $8.57 million overall.
Though ticket sales and contributions have skyrocketed — LSU made $1.37 million on women’s basketball tickets, surpassing $1 million for the first time — the team suffered financially from the lack of a media-rights deal and significantly lower NCAA and SEC payouts.
LSU women’s basketball made only $333,232 in NCAA and SEC distributions, while men’s basketball received $3.5 million.
nola.com lsu athletic department profit & loss
Posted on 3/16/25 at 3:51 pm to burreauxxx
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This is the answer that should end all these dumb Woodward/basketball threads.
That's true, if you're a dumbass. LSU is capable of funding all three of Football, Basketball, and Baseball. They just have a dogshit coach in Basketball.
Posted on 3/16/25 at 3:52 pm to Tom Bronco
I’m not going to do your research for you. You were so confident and wrong, it was amusing to read. If you don’t learn how to research yourself, you’ll keep getting your information wrong and look like a dumbass.
I’ll give you a hint, LSU releases a statement every year on their financials.
The only one here who is ignorant is you, considering you don’t even know where to look. How about you educate yourself?
I’ll give you a hint, LSU releases a statement every year on their financials.
The only one here who is ignorant is you, considering you don’t even know where to look. How about you educate yourself?
This post was edited on 3/16/25 at 3:53 pm
Posted on 3/16/25 at 4:10 pm to Endorphins
Except that’s where he got his info and you’re wrong. Last season baseball lost 1.9 million and the year before that when we won the CWS we lost money as well. Maybe you just don’t know how to read the financial statements.
Posted on 3/16/25 at 4:27 pm to Madking
I heard this from someone who would know.
When they sell athletic gear unless the name of the sport is written on the gear the administration is credited with the revenue. All game concessions are credited to the administration and not to the sport at which it was sold.
I was told there is a lot of creative accounting like that.
When they sell athletic gear unless the name of the sport is written on the gear the administration is credited with the revenue. All game concessions are credited to the administration and not to the sport at which it was sold.
I was told there is a lot of creative accounting like that.
Posted on 3/16/25 at 4:35 pm to doubleb
That makes sense and to be clear this isn’t about taking sides it’s just a reality. Baseball making as much as it does is a great thing for the program. Even when they don’t break even they’re limiting how much we lose which is a plus relatively speaking. It still doesn’t compare to basketball, making a million in profit during your worst years is better than losing money, breaking even or turning a small profit in your best.
This post was edited on 3/16/25 at 4:40 pm
Posted on 3/16/25 at 4:48 pm to 777Tiger
quote:quote:nope, lost almost two million last year
always turns a profit
What source are you using for this statement?
If you look at LSU’s financial report for FY 24 it will tell you that baseball lost $4.3 million. But the same report will also tell you that basketball lost $7.1 million.
If you look at the LLA audit report for FY 24 it will tell you that basketball made $1.0 million in excess of expenditures, but it lumps baseball in with “other sports” so you can’t directly compare the two programs.
As far as I can tell there’s no reliable way to make an apples-to-apples comparison unless you exclude media rights and conference distributions, which are huge revenue sources for both sports.
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