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  • Missouri Valley vs. Mid-Continent

    Out of curiousity, I went out to the Dept. of Education Equity in Athletics web site and collected the 2004-05 academic year enrollment and and budget (expenses) information for the ten Missouri Valley schools and the ten (with IPFW, NDSU, and SDSU) Mid-Continent schools:

    MVC School full time athletic MidCon School full time athletic
    MVC School undergrad enroll expenditures MidCon School undergrad enroll expenditures
    Bradley 4,995 8,820,074 Centenary 904 4,690,030
    Creighton 3,545 9,515,208 IPFW 6,625 3,545,299
    Drake 5,221 9,459,800 IUPUI 29,953 3,775,144
    Evansville 2,612 7,368,844 North Dakota State 10,549 7,668,848
    Illinois State 16,593 9,514,664 Oakland 9,278 5,695,346
    Indiana State 7,756 8,113,944 Oral Roberts 3,153 7,153,752
    Missouri State 12,740 11,928,300 South Dakota State 7,690 6,547,381
    Northern Iowa 13,235 13,714,936 Southern Utah 6,351 4,317,587
    Southern Illinois 15,060 10,898,047 UMKC 5,389 10,629,306
    Wichita State 7,217 12,146,325 Western Illinois 9,789 7,150,821
    TOTALS 88,974 101,480,142 TOTALS 89,681 61,173,514
    Two things of note:
    1) the full-time undergraduate enrollments of the schools of each conference are almost identical.
    2) the Missouri Valley however spends an average of just over 4 million dollars more per institution on their athletic programs than the Mid-Continent schools do. The average Missouri Valley program spends a bit over 10 million, where the average Mid-Con program spends a bit over 6 million.

    Of course, there are five scholarship football programs in the Valley (plus one non-scholarship program) and only three in the Mid-Con, so that skews things a little bit. Also NDSU's and SDSU's budgets are still ramping up with the transition from D-II to D-I.

    Something to chew on.

    It seems to me that a good five-year target for SDSU's athletic budget total would be somewhere between 12 to 15 million, in order to have a program that's competitive with those in the Valley, and be nationally competitive within Division I.
    "I think we'll be OK"
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