As of 8:10am this morning one of the finer programs in the country is lost due to "budgetary" problems.
No one saw it coming and they just recently signed some top level recruits that gave them one of the top 3 recruiting classes in the country.
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Geek - not all SEC schools field men's swimming. Arkansas, Mississipi St., Mississippi, and Vanderbilt do not have men's swimming.
If you want to compare the SEC to ASU - then you might find that ASU's football attendance ranks just 36 (2006). I don't have numbers handy but I'd say that predicts their football revenue is not nearly as large as that provided at the big SEC schools. The SEC leads the NCAA in football attendance (75,706 SEC vs. 56,314 PAC10). 7 of the top 20 teams in football attendance are from the SEC. Only ONE PAC10 team in the top 20.
ASU's AD budget is about $38-$40M (based on a Google search). Way short of what Ohio State and Texas spend (>$100M). Those two schools spend obscene amounts of money on athletics. They have money to spare for money-pit sports like men's swimming.
Geek - not all SEC schools field men's swimming. Arkansas, Mississipi St., Mississippi, and Vanderbilt do not have men's swimming.
If you want to compare the SEC to ASU - then you might find that ASU's football attendance ranks just 36 (2006). I don't have numbers handy but I'd say that predicts their football revenue is not nearly as large as that provided at the big SEC schools. The SEC leads the NCAA in football attendance (75,706 SEC vs. 56,314 PAC10). 7 of the top 20 teams in football attendance are from the SEC. Only ONE PAC10 team in the top 20.
ASU's AD budget is about $38-$40M (based on a Google search). Way short of what Ohio State and Texas spend (>$100M). Those two schools spend obscene amounts of money on athletics. They have money to spare for money-pit sports like men's swimming.
