Athletics deficit decreases by $1.41 million in 1 year

The IU Athletic Department's deficit stands at $1.79 million, a decrease of $1.41 million from last year, according to the Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act submitted to the NCAA Oct. 15.\nThe 25 page filed report, narrowed down to 11 pages open to the public, is a compilation of data comparing men's and women's sports financial and non-financial aspects.\nBetween July 1, 2002 and June 30 of this year -- the dates the report covers -- the department's expenses totaled $35,980,976. The biggest portion of that comes from football, which spent about $7 million but brought in about $13 million.\nThe largest amount of revenue from last year belongs to the men's basketball team, which made almost $10 million along with spending almost $3 million. \nPart of finding a balanced budget comes to football program's budget which, according to Associate Athletic Director of Budgets Paul Sullivan, takes so much by itself to run. \nThe football team's revenue increased $2.3 million from 2001-02 to 2002-03, while their expenses have remained about the same. \nThe report is mandatory by the U.S. Department of Education because IU is co-educational and participates in Federal student financial aid programs. However, the main reason for the report is to collect gender equity statistics.\nStatistics in the report show that the men's program brings in more than twice the amount that the women's program brings in, mostly due to football and men's basketball, which combined totals 67.9 percent of athletic department's total revenue. \nRevenue, according to the report includes ticket sales, student activity fees, postseason compensation, concessions, radio and television, sponsorships, royalties and sports camp among others. \nIncurring one of the highest operating expenses is track and field and cross country, which are grouped together. The men's team, which includes "total number of participants" of cross country, indoor and outdoor track teams, spends $210,950 and the women's team spends $225,406. These expenses are "attributable to home, away, neutral-site intercollegiate athletic contests, including team travel, lodging, and meals; uniforms and equipment; and officials." Per person, the teams are among the bottom of the athletic department with IU spending $1,551 per men's runner and $1,682 per women's runner.\nThe highest per player expenses belongs to men's and women's basketball which spends $16,752 and $16,008 respectively. \nOut of the total $5,663,977 spent on athletically related student aid, $3,270,376 is awarded to male athletes and $2,393,601 is awarded to female athletes. \nOne of the most staggering statistics in the report shows that men's teams collect $23,316,072 of revenue attributable to specific teams compared to $216,171 by women's team. In other words, the men's teams bring in 99.1 percent of total revenue attributable to specific teams. \nHead coaches salaries also show a large difference between genders. Men's team's head coaches show an average salary of $97,787 for full-time employees, and an average salary of $88,008 per total head coaches. FTE women's teams' coaches average $66,576 and $64,016 per total head coaches. The differences between men's and women's teams assistant coaches are equal across the board with men's teams assistant coaches equaling $75,928 and women's teams assistant coaches bringing home $35,632.\nMen's teams have zero women head or assistant coaches, compared to women's teams who have 14 men in head coaching or assistant coaches.\nOf the more 38,000 students at IU, 771 are athletes, both men and women.\nAccording to the report, IU's total expenses as indicated on IU's financial statement equals $1,866,816,000 of which the athletic department's expenses equals approximately .02 percent. \n-- Contact Sports editor Josh Weinfuss at jweinfus@indiana.edu.