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Message: [QUOTE="orangenauburn, post: 4812718, member: 169"] I'll show my ignorance here. $40m from ACC is just the football payout right? Is there a separate payout for basketball from the ACC also? Ticket revenue from football is what ~$10m (conservative)? Ticket revenue from hoops is another ~$15m or so? I wonder how merch moves for the program? No doubt hoops merch probably moves more than football, but I'd be curious to see that accounting. So just from tickets and ACC payout you're at $65-$70m in revenue. This doesn't include media deals and contracts, merchandise, or any of the other programs (and Lax probably holds it own in revenue v expense, or close to it). Someone else figured scholarships are probably $15m for an expense line item, so hoops tickets would cover that. Dome expense and maintenance probably is quite high, not sure if the university or AD could create a separate entity to handle that or if they already do ( like the Mets have with Citi Field being under Queens Ball Park LLC ). Total coaches salaries all programs with support staff is probably $20m range. I guess what I am saying is the Dome and facilities operating expenses are the great unknown. There is money to cover support staff, scholarships, travel - almost just from the ACC football payout alone. But if the facilities operating expenses are $40m (campus wide), then you can see where paying for everything else gets tight financially. Add into it, a future reduction in capacity, which means potential lost future earnings, and you can see where they may be calculating that it's better to ride out the Dino contract or feel they are not able to cover the buyouts of the staff and future payouts to new staff. And this is probably where the school sees other programs with supporters and boosters who help offset these costs through donations and collectives, and that this programs boosters or collectives are not capable of or strong enough to bridge the gap for the program. [/QUOTE]

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