Florida athletic department increasing football spending in latest budget

[BMF]

Florida athletic department increasing football spending in latest budget


https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/f...t-increasing-football-spending-latest-budget/

Florida’s athletic department will be spending more money on Gators football in the 2017-2018 academic year, according to a Monday afternoon.

The University Athletic Association, which runs UF’s athletic department, approved a $128.2 million budget for the athletic department, a 4.6 increase from the previous year. The football program will receive $82.6 million, a 4.4 percent increase. While not part of the UAA budget, it was also noted that the football program will be receiving $6 million for playing Michigan on Sept. 2 in the 2017 AdvoCare Classic at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas

The new money will go toward LED ribbon boards in the end zone as well as additional stadium scoreboards and drink rails in the end zone.

Arguably the marquee addition isn’t to the football program. The new budget includes a $350,000 3D projection system purchased for use at the Exactech Arena, for select baseball games as well as volleyball and gymnastics events. It was previously used prior to UF’s home basketball game against Kentucky last season.

More details on the UAA budget can be found on Florida’s official site.

 

[aka]

I hear Nord may get a raise.

 

[BMF]

Florida releases 2017-18 athletic budget

https://www.seccountry.com/florida/florida-releases-2017-18-athletic-budget

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The board for Florida’s University Athletic Association approved a record $128,228,987 budget for the 2017-18 fiscal year, up more than $5.5 million from the previous year.


That includes $33.15 million in revenue from the SEC for the past year.

The Gators will receive a one-time $6 million guarantee for playing Michigan in the 2017 AdvoCare Classic at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, to open the football season, with that money going straight to the football program.

Florida also received additional royalty revenue of about $1.7 million from its Fox/IMG sponsorship from the 2016-17 year that is not included in that $128 million budget.

Among the new expenditures is the addition of a 3D arena projection system ($350,000), which was rented out for the Gators’ home basketball game with Kentucky, and LED ribbon boards and additional scoreboards in the end zones of the football stadium.

Florida’s operating expenses are broken down as follows: sports ($25,053,153), scholarships ($14,029,629), support services ($7,472,450), administrative services ($17,830,888), auxiliaries ($868,750), capital projects ($750,000), salaries and fringe benefits ($48,003,976), OPS and temporary personnel ($2,347,279) and University of Florida support ($716, 347). The 2017-18 budget lists $9,465,800 in debt service.

The largest increases were in the categories of sports ($1,859,951), administrative services ($1,183,548) and salaries and fringe benefits ($2,848,410).

According to Gator Country, $82.5 million of that budget is allocated for football and “football related expenses,” with $13.48 million for basketball and $3.19 million for the Gators’ other sports.

The 2016-17 athletics operating budget was $122,635,858.

 

[CU-UF]

We still suck...

 

[MJMGator]

Donkey says we spend all our money on non-revenue sports.

 

[gatormandan]

Donkey says we spend all our money on non-revenue sports.

Well then, that means this report is false. We all know donkey is the expert on these matters and anything other than his word is fake news.

 

[ergator920103]

I hear Nord may get a raise.

If any of our coaches deserve a raise, he is definitely the one!

 

[Swamp Donkey]

Hired any coaches or QA staff yet? No?

yawn

Just still paying Muschump, huh?






Seriously, have we hired any staff since we hired he HS basketball coach to coach football?

 

[ThreatMatrix]

All I want to know is how much is budgeted to the bag men.

 

[KronoGator]

Budget should be cut until they beat a team with a pulse. :cool:

 

[g8tr72]

.......

Among the new expenditures is the addition of a 3D arena projection system ($350,000), which was rented out for the Gators’ home basketball game with Kentucky......

Awesome. That was cool.