How Much Money Does Texas A And M Make From Athletics College Facts

The Texas A&M athletics department'southward ongoing facilities upgrades again have resulted in the schoolhouse rivaling the Academy of Texas for higher sports revenue supremacy.

Texas A&M had nearly $212 million in operating revenue during its 2017 fiscal year, according to its latest financial report to the NCAA.

Texas A&G had most $212 million in operating revenue during its 2017 fiscal yr, according to its latest financial report to the NCAA. Almost $93 meg of that corporeality was categorized as contributions received and spent by the department during that year, the document shows.

Texas A&M'due south report comes on the heels of Texas financial documents that showed the Austin campus with almost $215 1000000 in athletics operating revenue for 2017.

It is the get-go time ii public universities have reported more than than $200 meg in athletics revenue in the same year.

But this is third consecutive yr in which Texas A&Chiliad has reported annual athletics revenue of more than $190 meg. Prior to these years, the school never had reached $120 million in such revenue (non adjusting for inflation).

Fundraising campaigns related to a massive redevelopment of its football stadium that began in 2014, along with several other projects, have super-charged Texas A&Grand's contribution totals.

Altogether over the past three years, Texas A&M has reported a combined total of $260 million in almanac contributions to athletics.

The academy provided its new report to USA TODAY Sports on Mon, in response to an open-records request.

Texas A&Grand recently has shown its financial muscle in other ways. It fired football game bus Kevin Sumlin, owing him a $x.4 meg buyout. It then replaced him with Jimbo Fisher, who has been given a deal the school has placed at $75 meg over 10 years.

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While the report shows Texas A&M with nigh $147 million in operating expenses for 2017 — an apparent annual surplus of more than $65 one thousand thousand — it also shows the school with just nether $67 million in athletics-related majuscule expenditures during the year.

When schools infringe money to build or refurbish athletics facilities, the NCAA currently requires them to count almanac debt service payments — the amount of main and interest they repay in a given year — as an operational expense. Cash spending on facilities is supposed to be counted, and reported, separately from almanac operating expenses.

Every bit a result, contributions to Texas A&M'southward athletics program that were made in 2017 and spent on facilities projects that yr are being reported as operating revenue while about of the respective spending on those projects is not being reported as an annual operating expense.

The Texas A&M athletics department's primary financial officeholder, Jeff Toole, told The states TODAY Sports that when the facilities-related contributions are removed from consideration for 2017, "we are basically break-even, maybe a niggling less than break-even, for the year."

Toole said the uppercase projects covered in 2017 were a continuation of the $485 million football stadium project, the construction of stadiums for softball and runway and field, and the installation of some new video boards. Toole declined to provide amounts spent in 2017 on each project.

If Texas A&G's capital spending for 2017 is added to its operational spending for the year, the full is only over $213.5 one thousand thousand.

Oklahoma State reported $241 1000000 in revenue (not adjusting for inflation) for 2006, when the NCAA was having the schools use a different methodology for their annual fiscal reporting than the one they use at present. Oklahoma State reported $211 million in donations for that year. About $165 1000000 came from Boone Pickens, largely for facility upgrades made over fourth dimension.

When Texas released its 2017 financial report a piddling more than a week ago, it showed nearly $215 million in annual operating acquirement and $207 million in operating expenses. Texas likewise had most $4 million in capital spending, plus a dissever $10.3 million transfer to the university that likewise is not considered an annual operating expense under the NCAA's reporting system.

Texas A&M'southward new athletics spending study showed no boosted transfers to the university.

With the softball facility set to open in Apr and the track and field facility in September, Toole said he anticipates that Texas A&M's revenue for its 2018 and 2019 financial years will resemble the 2017 total.

"After that, it might starting time to normalize a piffling bit," Toole said, "but you never know."