re: Most recently published LSU sports financials

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Curley would have done the job for $1,000,000 vs. $10M and gotten the same results.

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Curley won 16 games in 444 tries, 10 SEC games in 31 tries. BK won 16 games in 22 tries, 10 SEC games in 12 tries.

This is a pretty stupid take. LSU is not a program that needs a coach to be Hallman bad to move on anymore, and never should be again.

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This is why you should immediately dismiss anyone who says LSU shouldn't worry about basketball as an idiot.

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See i read the same thing but interpret it differently. I see that basketball gets paid just for being part of the SEC TV deal regardless of how good we are. Baseball needs to be good to come close to breaking even because they have to sell tickets to make money. Is there that much more potential for basketball to make more money if we're good? Idk, baseball plays a lot more home games. Genuinely curious bc idk how it all works

Anyone who didnt guess mens basketball and also didnt know womens basketball is a major money drain shouldn’t be taken seriously.

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College baseball just isn't a big draw nationally and it probably won't ever be. Despite it growing in popularity recently, it's mostly regional to the South/Southeast.

Baseball is still way short of breaking even with sellouts every home game. Basketball is still in profit with a nearly empty PMAC every game.

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I understand that, but when looking at the athletic dept as a whole $1 is $1 regardless of where it comes from.

So I'm saying if we took the baseball money and gave it to basketball and suddenly LSU baseball sucked then maybe we lose $5M per year instead of losing $2M on baseball. I see that basketball makes $1M even when we suck. But if basketball starts selling out the PMAC (only ~18 home games per year), would they make enough to offset the additional $3M we're now losing on baseball? Idk. I think theres a chance that your $ goes further with baseball because of what you just said about national interest. It means we get the money from basketball whether we suck or not. But baseball could lose big if we suck. But I agree 1000% we should start by cutting WBB.

On another note how did football double their revenue from 2023 to 2024?

Agree. Like the price of hotel rooms and JellO shots in Omaha.

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I love LSU baseball. I didn't think it would make us a lot, but I never expected it to be a net loss...

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No money to be made there.

Outside of the south and some of the west coast no one gives a rat’s arse about college baseball and it’s a shite product outside of about 25 programs.

Women don't need subsidies. Women's sports drives up the cost of men's sports and the people who "love" women's sports don't want to pay for them.. It's public policy so it is what it is. The question is at what cost is it equitable and sustainable?

The most outrageous thing on here is we are spending over $2,000,000 a year on the band and we are still piping in music.

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why Track and Field is so damn expensive

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Some meets are multi-day, and even then, they send some teams in groups and return separately. You are also traveling at least 30 athletes on both sides. So 60 minimum athletes competing at away meets. Housing 10 staff (coaches/trainers/admin) and hauling equipment (poles/implements) while flying commercial every time except for maybe the national meet in Oregon, where they stay for at least a full week. Even the conference meets are close to a week long for travel.

Roster sizes are 35 men/45 women max, and all scholarships are full. LSU doesnt have a full roster on both sides and does NOT have full scholarships. Top talent in state is not coming because we have no NIL for track, so we have to go and get visas for international athletes (costs way more) and pay those scholarships out. There are plenty of walk ons and most compete at home meets which help bring the program money. Not having a banked indoor track is why we travel more during indoor, but i am hearing we are getting one with some private boosters. TBD. If so, that will generate revenue and cancel out a ton of our losses so we can host at least 2 more indoor meets vs. the current 2 we have featuring mostly instate/driving distance programs for just one afternoon.

Add up all of that, T&F is actually pretty efficient with its money.

Now look at WBB and tell me why they need a staff member for every person on the roster, travel to Greece/BVI for a cupcake game, have a coach who makes more than the staffs of almost 75% of the teams on campus, have a media rights deal with ESPN, and they don't get looked at further under a microscope.