Ole Miss AD finances (WBB is shocking)
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Only way it would ever work is if they redo the Baseball season to be a couple months later through the summer.
Which by the way is what I think should happen and the only way it is fair across the country for northern teams to compete with southern teams.
Baseball season should be April - Aug instead of Feb - June.
Swayze field has a listed capacity of 10,715. That's more than 25% larger than Nebraska's Haymarket Park (8,486). I'd also imagine being close to Omaha and having a built-in college baseball fan base has to be a huge help.Nebraska manages, although not at the consistent rate I’d imagine.
Iowa's Duane Banks Field is almost certainly a closer comparison for us with 3,000 seats and I doubt that's filled very well.
College baseball is huge in the South. It's a big part of the sports culture down here in a way that it never will be up North. That's why the B1G is nearly always a 1-bid league to the CWS. I love baseball, but ISU would be fools to bring it back.
I get all that, my point was simply that it’s not impossible. Ames is close to DM to draw from as well. Iowa City is only a comparison because of low attendance.
In 25 home games last season, they averaged 915 per game. They did average 1735 in the last six home games (conference games late in the season -- OSU and MSU) but only broke 1000 twice before that, both vs Nebraska.
You would know better than I would, but why the games with the accounting? It seems pretty clear this was intentional, doesn’t it?
Sometimes places will take all the overhead and spread it out evenly per each department, some do it per estimated usage, some revenue. Many times it’s just how they prefer.
For games. They may want to make some look bad so if they are allowed to drop stuff in the future they can justify it easier.
It doesn't necessarily have to be "games". It is probably just a mater of how they classify shared expenses. For stuff like that there is really no right or wrong way to do it.
I just found it interesting that they were essentially able to break even but manage costs so well on what would seem to be a very expensive sports (football) while absolutely getting destroyed in that way with WBB…in a conference that still allows teams to stay relatively close to home.
I just haven’t done taxes for a public entity…neglected to consider that factor.
Well, one sport makes all the money and the other sport only loses money so it’s not that surprising
I mean in the end everything gets combined together into 1 final number so the breakout really doesn't mean anything.
Hockey would be more successful than baseball, and neither one would ever come close to breaking even.
Now imagine if they change the season to summer. Hanging out at Cytown and tailgating before you walk east across our bridge to the new baseball and softball stadiums to enjoy America's game. "Is this heaven?" You ask.... No, it's Iowa State (answered by James Earl Jones who's walking behind you)
