Alabama also has support staff in areas that are not directly under the football budget... some work in the college for sport sciences (or related college) and the over arching athletic department.
In 2017, support staff expenses went up by $784,530 to the $3.7M.
But I am in line with you – I think they are hiding support staff expenses through the other sports.
In the same breath - they say that total support staff expenses increased by
$2.9M. There’s no way in hell that they’re paying $3 million of additional money for support staff for the other sports.
They are probably paying $6 million minimum for support staff just for football. There is nothing in this article that outlines what they were already paying for “other sport support staffs”. Other than the $3.7 million, all the numbers above are additional expenses in 2017.
2019 is probably considerably more.
They are probably paying around $8M. Just for football.